Communication
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April 01, 2021
Editors Note: We are soaring ambassadors whenever taking passengers up for a ride. Hugh offers a comprehensive approach to glider passenger briefings from ground operations, to the use of parachutes when available, and the actual flight (parachutes were not an option when the photo was taken). Effective briefings can reduce passenger stress and help foster our sport of soaring.
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December 03, 2020
Gliding Resource Management
Used primarily for improving safety, GRM focuses on interpersonal communication, leadership, and decision making on the ground and in the air to ensure the best possible outcomes. It is a set of training procedures for use in environments where human error can have devastating effects. GRM can come into play to foster better friendships, improving the club atmosphere
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October 10, 2019
When you look down and ahead to your left, you see a lake; you are not over it yet. However, when pilots call on the radio, they claim they are over it. The lack of position knowledge leads to some confusion, especially when it is a radio call when entering the pattern. Based on experience at uncontrolled airports, saying ‘entering the 45’ narrows your position down to about five sq miles, which doesn’t
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November 15, 2018
Most soaring operations are conducted from small, uncontrolled airfields which require communication between pilots to safely maintain separation from each other in order to avoid a conflict or collision. This requires clear, concise, common radio etiquette and phraseology. Unfortunately, aviation seems to be in a radio phraseology “normalization of deviants” in which many users are not