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.

You need a "safety alert" to remind you that soaring is a potentially
dangerous activity??

Safety knowlege is not supposed to be "old knowlege"....it is supposed
to be on the top of your list for every flight!

Let's see here......a glider....it flys thousands of feet up, and
covers hunderds of miles, and has no internal power source....yep
seems really safe to me...no problem...





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?

And why was that? Maybe they were lacking in the most basic of
skills?....taking unnesessary risks? lacking common sense?? Lacking
review of safety issues before flight? Not doing proper preflight?
Not doing proper checklists??





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?

Now you're onto "simulator"...always with the electronic gadgets!


I don't really see the comparison....but avoiding the problem (low
rope breaks) does nothing in the way of training for a real rope
break.........as and instructor, I have done (or done with my
students) hundreds of rope breaks in the 200 to 250 range.....without
incident.....I am sure that thousands if not tens of thousands of rope
break training scenarios have been done without incident.....It is
part of glider training...it is required by the PTS......It is on
every flight test......It should be on every flgiht review....






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

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

Thank god you're there to remind those motorglider pilots.....I mean
they would just be out there flying around aimlessly and
dangerously.........



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.


Again...if you need the SSA to remind you(of the blatently
obvious)....time for another hobby....

Once again you solution to safety is always on the
outside.........SSA, FAA, NTSB, Safety alert...two way radio,
flarm, simulator, transponder......

My solution is to turn to the inside....what can I do to make myself
safer?


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