On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:36:05 +0000, Larry Dighera wrote:

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:05:25 -0500, Greg Copeland
wrote in Message-Id: :

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:54:38 +0000, Larry Dighera wrote:
So far, it's been 50/50. The first high-speed low-level military
flight, that collided with a glider, was able to make it safely to its
original destination. Miraculously, the glider safely landed missing
several feet of wing and aileron! If I recall correctly, the NTSB
found the glider pilot to be at fault, despite the see-and-avoid
regulations!


Perhaps I'm daft, but how is a glider supposed to get out of the way of a
high-speed military craft?

See 91.113:
http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text....2.4.7&idno=14

A glider has the right of way over a powered aircraft. It is the
powered aircraft that regulations require avoid the glider, not the
other way round.

Was he flying in a area he wasn't supposed to
be?

The glider was in class G airspace as far as I can tell, albeit
apparently within a Military Training Route. It is my understanding
that aircraft operating there are still governed by the see-and-avoid
mandate.

I understand that. And that was pretty much the basis of my question.
The glider had right of way. Yet, "found the glider pilot to be at
fault". To me, that says they expected a glider to get the heck out of
the way of a highspeed aircraft. Thusly, my paraphrased statement of,
"I'm crazy because I don't understand how they could expect that to happen."