Tom, You either completly missed the point or just ignore it. Unless
you consider the pilot experience detailed in the NTSB report as
speculation. This poor fellow just soloed 3 weeks ago and was allowed
to take paid passengers for a ridge soaring ride for god's sake. Don't
you see what's wrong with this picture? The purpose of discussions like
this is to prevent similar things from hapenning again. Waiting 1-2
years for official NTSB report which will most likely be identical is a
waste of time. It will be old news by then. I rather wait for the
accident report in Soaring magazine. But again, this is not the point
of this discussion.