On Jul 24, 8:00*am, Pat Russell wrote:
So far you have "blamed" the accident on
lack of radio
the rudder signal
The lack of good instruction
the topilots' use of the signal

everything to divert responsibility away from the glider pilot and on
to something/someone else

By this logic, there's no such thing as a bad training program.

Assigning blame is off-topic.

It's not a question of blame. *No one denies that the pilot is
responsible for all of his actions.

The issue is whether our national training program (as promoted by
SSF) contains an unforeseen flaw that is contributing to the accident
rate.

I agree with you Pat, almost every GliderPort I've flown at has a
different view of how to run things and what's "Standard". Our
training is NOT STANDARDIZED throughout the US!! It should be, but
isn't.

Maybe this is a program the SSA & SSF should address and Certify
Instgructors and GliderPorts as following SSA/SSF Approved Traing
Procedures.