Not true!

The Swedish Soaring Federation has been delegated all authority over
gliding by the Swedish CAA. Since 1993 we have reduced our accident rate
by 50%.

You do not need a lot of rules, you need a few good rules, and the power
to enforce them!

Robert

Gill Couto wrote:
That's the same as asking why highway accidents can't be reduced. The
same goes for motorcycles, skydiving, and anything worth doing.

gill


JJ Sinclair wrote:

Ever ask yourself, why doesn't our safety record improve? We seem to
have the
same type and about the same number of accidents every year. Lets take
the
*controls not hooked up*, its about time for another one of those.
Every year a
couple of guys will try to fly without hooking up a control. This type
accident
is 100% preventable. Why can't we put a stop to it? The answer is
simple, we
don't have the power to control it. The airlines wouldn't put up with
it. The
military would have no problem in eliminating it. Clubs have the power
to stop
it. How about the individual sailplane owner? We got the power to control
his/her actions? No we don't and just try and get a little muscle and
listen to
the screams. I tried to get the *wing tape sign off* adopted by asking
my local
FBO's to refuse to give a tow unless the tow pilot saw a wing tape
sign off on
each sailplane wing. I got ZERO replies from the 5 FBO's I asked to
try the
plan and several of them had experienced accidents caused by controls not
hooked up.

Our safety record will not improve because we don't have the power to
enforce
rules designed to make soaring safer.
JJ Sinclair