Distractions
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October 19, 2023
There are a thousand different ways to be distracted in flight, I do my very best to minimise all of them so that I can focus on my flight in its entirety. While gliding doesn’t have to be as serious as I take it, reducing in-flight distractions is a great way to improve your enjoyment, increase your feel of the glider and the sky, plus make your life just plain easier! What are distractions?
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June 24, 2021
My Club Safety Committee spent a lot of time this week talking about "Situational Awareness" and the loss of it. But what exactly is "Situational Awareness" ("SA") anyway? How do you get it? How do you lose it? How do you know if you have lost it? How do you get it back? It is an elusive matter and one that is hard to write about. The part of our brain that helps us maintain multi-faceted
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July 05, 2018
Lack of Communication
In the airshow world this concern was mostly from the pilot not communicating with others or the show not communicating with the performers. If there is a problem with the equipment or person (remember the acronym IMSAFE), it has to be clearly communicated what is going on. This happened at a flying job, where a normally whiny pilot, was doing his normal complaining