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Graeme Cooper
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Hi just to say that I recently did a wing walk to celebrate my 50th birthday, 20 years after my gliding accident.
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Hi just to say that I recently did a wing walk to celebrate my 50th birthday, 20 years after my gliding accident.
Stephen Poole
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Hi just to say that I recently did a wing walk to celebrate my 50th birthday, 20 years after my gliding accident.
Well done!!
Terry M - 3CK (Chicago)
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Wow!!! Congrats Mr Cooper. That is awesome.
To the others here - is it common practice for glider pilots to wear a chute when flying if not acro?
To the others here - is it common practice for glider pilots to wear a chute when flying if not acro?
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I never did nor my instructor who was a well known sailplane instructor/ author.
Matthew
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Seems to depend on the glider. Some are designed for competition, not necessarily aerobatics, where parachutes may be required. Mid airs are a real possibility when thermalling with a lot of other aircraft. In some of those, the design is such that the parachute becomes the seat cushion. Quite a few members of my club wore them because of that.
dtuuri
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So, what do you do for excitement when you aren't flying?
Hi just to say that I recently did a wing walk to celebrate my 50th birthday, 20 years after my gliding accident.
Caba
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Glider flying with a parachute is common practice back in Europe. In the US not so much, but it´s not uncommon. Gliders tend to converge to the best thermals, I´ve flown with 20+ gliders close together in a weak thermal, that´s not funny. The risk of collision is there. I know a guy and a girl who have one more take-off than landings and I´ve heard of many, many more, so wearing this parachute is very much mandatory to me when flying gliders.
Another risk is rigging the glider out of the trailer every day. Quite a few guys had to jump out after their winch launch because the elevator had not been attached properly. Most of these kind of accidents are fatal though.