All of the material for the prevention of those accidents is widely
available ...in just about any and every gliding texbook I have ever
seen.......Every instructor I know of also addresses all of those
concerns in detail during training....every club I have been involved
with addresses those scenarios...

The purpose of a Safety Alert is to remind all that this sport can
kill and old knowledge needs to be reviewed from time to time.

Any pilot with even the most basic skill and common sense can easily
avoid all of those accident scenarios...


Yes, but these guys didn't avoid the accident, did they?

Rope demo and practice at only 500' or higher does not properly train
pilots for the real world...rope breaks at lower altitudes are not
necessarily dangerous....

The AF used to do "real world" training by snatching a throttle of
takeoff, just to see what the pilot being evaluated would do. All too
often he would shut down the wrong engine and now they had a "real
world" emergency all right with 2 engines out. The AF stopped doing
that and thoroughly briefed all emergencies before hand. Real world
emergencies are best practiced in the simulator.
This accident just proved that "real world" training can lead to "real
world" disaster, didn't it?

Motor glider obvioulsy takes additional and specialized skills.......

My post reminded those motor glider pilots still with us, of just
that, didn't it?

The SAA cannot fly the glider for you......

No, but the SSA can remind us that this sport can kill you and
reemphasize some points that need attention.
JJ Sinclair

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