Monthly Archives: June 2018

"Over 80% of ALL accidents in aviation involve human error"- BOEING

I am guessing that more than my yearly salary was spent on this study...by a factor of 10. After looking at enough NTSB reports or any other accident write-ups it is pretty clear that human error was the cause of most accidents.

After finishing the last few months of bad decisions and losing points, we will take some

There are 3 outcomes: save a few minutes, conservative, or land-out (this could be replaced by a low very slow save). Being conservative typically costs a few minutes. Strong high days more because you might stop turning 40 miles from home. Miss timing your glide and landing short of the field will cost you a lot of points, so it is probably best to error towards conservative. The most challenging

I can still remember clearly flying a WGC in an ASW-22. There were great clouds all the way home. My teammates ahead were finding good air. The ground crews were saying the clouds were making it all the way to the airport. But others were still climbing trying to get final glide. It was a calculated risk, but it looked like a great sky.

I headed off, leaving the gaggle I was with and passed

Going into the last day at the 2010 WGC I was in the top 10. Ron Tabery and I were flying very well together and our scores proved it. It was pre-start and probably 20 Minutes before our thought about start time. I was on the top of the gaggle, let’s say 500 ft below cloudbase... but I was on-top and it was glorious. Ron was right below me and all we needed to do was wait. However, the entire open