I recently flew with a good friend of mine in his RV8.
This guy is the craziest pilot you will ever meet
(most UK pilots will know who I am talking about).

Let me be clear... This guy is the loosest pilot I
have ever met, and that is saying something. Despite
this, he gave me a pre-flight safety briefing on the
RV8.

When this guy takes the time to give you a safety briefing...
you listen.

My suggestion... if it's danger you are worried about
- DON'T SWAP YOUR GLIDER FOR AN RV8.


Cheers,

Ben.



At 06:30 29 September 2004, Marc Ramsey wrote:
R Barry wrote:
In the past 12 months I counted over 30 accidents
involving RV's of
all types resulting in 11 fatalities in the USA.
In the same period I
counted 23 accidents in gliders resulting in 7 fatalities
in the USA.
NTSB accident web page was my source. I'm guessing
there were more
total hours in glider operations than all RV operations
in the same
period of time.

There are apparently somewhere around 3000 RVs currently
flying in the
US, how many gliders are flying here?

Marc