boulder mid-air

"BT" wrote:

Having the "right of way" only works if the other pilot see's you.
He can't "yield" to what he does not see.


"None" wrote in message
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The rules say that an aircraft towing or re-fueling has the right-of-
way over all other powered aircraft.

Please point out to critics of glider operations that every pilot is
taught this rule before flying solo and that this rule is on the
written test he or she must take before getting a license.

Classing this tragedy as a simple collision between two powered
aircraft ignores the flight profile of the glider tug, which would
have been climbing on full power.

I can tell you from my experience of touring in a low wing single, and
from towing thousands of gliders into the air, that the Cirrus pilot
would have been unaware of the Pawnee until it suddenly rose to fill
his windshield. He may have been maintaining a good look-out, but down
and to one side is easily missed, especially with the terrain as a
background.

Do you include this possibility in your scan of the horizon ?