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November 1st 19, 03:56 AM
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Gliding risk....
On Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 8:57:36 PM UTC-5, Dave Nadler wrote:
On Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 8:49:22 PM UTC-4, wrote: For those who haven’t seen it.... https://chessintheair.com/the-risk-o...-what-we-love/ Interesting stats. Counts of friends I've lost a few different ways: - driving: 0 - motorcycle: 0 - bicycling: 1 - medical malpractice: 2 - hang-gliding (where I don't know so many): a couple - general aviation: a few - gliding: 25 After the first few friends I lost in gliding, I wrote this (recently reprinted in Soaring): http://www.nadler.com/public/Nadler_...g_May_1987.pdf Be careful out there, Best Regards, Dave A few years ago, I sat next to Judge McWhorter during the SSA convention safety presentation, at which gliding fatalities were related to hours of exposure to risk (in flight). Judge's career has been in coal-mining safety. Listening to the numbers, he said, "Soaring is more dangerous than coal mining." 
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