On Feb 13, 1:45*pm, "
wrote:

Pot meet kettle. *US glider pilots aren't in a statistically sound
position to criticize BASE jumpers right now...

I don't think that that is a particularly constructive way to address
that avenue of discussion.

As bad a couple of years as soaring has had for 2010 and 2011, I'd put
our safety numbers in incidents per hour of exposure or even incidents
per exposure cycle up against those of BASE jumping any day of the
week and twice on Sunday.

Thanks, Bob K.