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Electric Towing

By Leigh Snell In this article I’ll describe my experiences of using my electric vehicle to tow my glider, to help answer the question of whether or not an EV makes a practical gliding tow car. The simple answer is yes, but… I have a Tesla Model 3 Long Range with a tow bar rated…
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Distance, Speed and Acceleration or why you need a Variometer

By Leo DaviesReprinted with the kind permission of Keep Soaring, LKSC When we fly, we like to go fast. Pilots often brag about their speed, as in, “I averaged 340 km/hour on my last leg”. Strange then, that once we close our eyes, we have no way of telling how fast we are going.…
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Safety - Just culture 1.0.

There is a link between people’s commitment to report safety-critical events or near misses on the one hand, and how an organization (CASA, the GFA, your club) handles the aftermath of those events on the other. If responses are perceived to be punitive, or retributive, this…
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Flarm-azing

Did you know that every registered aircraft in the world is assigned an ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) 24bit binary code that is linked to the aircraft registration? by David Jansen When a glider is registered, CASA send the Certificate of Registration holder a…
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Transponders, Class E and the missing safety case

The recent proposal by Airservices Australia to lower the limit for Class E airspace between Cairns and Melbourne has created quite a bit of turbulence in the country’s aviation community. Pure gliders are, purportedly, exempt from the resulting transponder requirement but tugs,…
Hahnweide

GLIDING TEM Part 3 - COMPETITION SOARING and other specialist flights

In the last two articles, I introduced Threat and Error Management (TEM) as a simple yet powerful technique for assessing threats affecting any and every glider flight, and discussed how to use TEM in local and cross-country glider flights. Recognising threats allows pilots to…
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Safety - Blue on blue

When you’ve been involved in an activity like gliding for a long time, certain incidents seem to form a pattern – they happen over and over. Wheels-up landings are frequent, stall-and-spin accident less so. Each individual incident by itself is, however devastating and uniquely…
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Safety – Threat and Error Management Part 2

In the last issue, I introduced Threat and Error Management (TEM) as a simple yet powerful technique for assessing threats affecting any and every glider flight. Recognising threats allows pilots to predict situations where they might make errors or forget something, which…
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Safety Differently

Safety Differently By Professor Sidney DekkerNational Safety Advisor An insight hit home when I was working with a health authority in Canada a couple of years ago. The insight was this: when we talk about safety, we actually don’t talk about safety. We talk about the lack of…
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How to Get Back Into the Sky Safely

How to Get Back Into the Sky Safely For Locked-down rusty glider pilots Percentage of total gliding accidents against pilot currencyx-axis (horizontal): number of launches in last 3 monthsy-axis (vertical): percentage of total number of gliding accidents over 15 years(Source:…
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