At 12:18 09 February 2007, Justin Craig wrote:
Having just read the posting by Alistair Wright I was
some what alarmed by his narrow minded attitude in
respect to a club that he does not appear to have flown
at for thirty years. Highlighting a one off incident
which involved a small number of people, and using
this as a stick to beat the whole operation with.

This is what the official report had to say about a
one off incident involving a few people 'The investigation
concluded that gliders involved in the race had been
flying unecessarily low during the approach to the
finish. The accident and other evidence suggested a
problem with the safe conduct of race finishes and
deficiencies in the training for and oversight of such
events'. I have read many accident reports over the
years and the AAIB are not given to making unfounded
adverse comments, and I have never read a more damming
indictment in an AAIB report. One glider pilot has
done untold damage to the reputation of the gliding
movement and the repercussions of his actions will
be felt by every competition pilot in the UK. While
Alistair has not put across the point as I would have
done his inference that we should have taken more care
to ensure that such accidents could not happen is justified.
Having said that the airmanship, competence and self
discipline of the vast majority of competition pilots
in the UK is a credit to the organisation. We do need
to address the problem of the few irresponsible louts.
What I find objectionable is that the vast majority
of competition pilots are likely to suffer restrictions
because of the idiotic act of one such irresponsible
lout.