Avoiding collisions is a fundamentally important aspect of managing flying risk. Effective lookout is the primary method of avoiding collision. Pilots can reduce risk by planning to avoid the situations ...
We’re taught from our very first lesson about scanning for other gliders, that maintaining a scan is super important when studying clouds, or the climb rate of turning gliders ahead. Having your head ...
« Là, un planeur ! Tu le vois, devant la colline ? ». Votre passager vous indique un point dans le ciel. Vous cherchez le planeur des yeux, mais impossible de l’apercevoir. Par contre, il y a un moment ...
How the seabreeze convergence works. Fly the red zone, avoid the blue
What is convergence?
It is basically the meeting of two winds of different directions. Normally, providing that the air masses in ...
... associated with rigging, we hope we can go some way to reducing these avoidable accidents
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... sharing her story will help others avoid similar events.
Sandy’s story is an example of what George Rogers was referring to in his safety column when he quoted Bernard Eckey’s words, “One poor judgement ...
In this video we analyse a near miss with a tow plane and glider on tow. How it happened, what went wrong, and what we learned to help avoid such incidents in the future. It was closer than we would like! ...
... been killed since 1974 from tug upsets while aerotowing. Six tug upset incidents were reported in 2012. This leaflet offers advice to the glider pilot on safe aerotowing and in particular the avoidance ...
There has been an average of just over one fatality per year at BGA clubs in the nine years since 2008. This is a dramatic reduction from the nine-year average of more than 5 fatalities per year from ...
... and low level cloud. Using the high resolution images glider pilots, paragliders, and hanggliders can benefit from online information to adjust their course and follow convergence lines, avoid “blue areas”, ...
... Sailplanes
The Latest Developments from Schempp-Hirth
New Software Developments
GPS Sailplane Tracking
Collision Avoidance with FLARM, Six Years of Experience and Outlook
Low Cost Soaring ...