I couple of years ago I have written an article about safety in
soaring (www.tango-whisky.com/safety.html) which has spread a little
bit throughout Europe.
Somebody said that every pilot has to decide for himself how safe he
is or wants to be, and I think this is absolutely correct. The key for
this decision is situational awareness - if you don't have it and you
don't exercise it every single minute of a flight, you are an accident
waiting to happen.