Spinning (mis)concepts

Ian,

You have near enough admitted that you are extrapolating
information that clearly isnt there from the accident
reports. In my 15 years of reading S+G I have never
seen a 'Competition Pilots not in Competition accident
section'. Also accusing every comp pilot of not owning
up to incidents is just plain rubbish not to mention
insulting.

Please keep you amateur accident statistics thoughts
to yourself. You dont do anyone any favours including
yourself.

BTW. I have seen an early solo pilot 'Push on' which
resullted in a crash. Was he an aspiring comp pilot,
influenced by a comp pilot or did he just get it wrong?

Owain




At 17:36 28 January 2004, Ian Johnston wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:37:49 UTC, Owain Walters
wrote:

: we all know, from the accident statistics, just how
: safe competition
: pilots are, don't we?
:
: I am assuming you are being sarcastic?

Yup.

: Where are you
: getting your competition vs. normal flying accident
: statistics from?

Reading the blood-and-gore pages of S&G

: I am interested because the vast majority of accident
: reports I read are nothing to do with competitions.

Well of course not. When you stuff up landing a glider
in a field
after pressing on, too late, too low and too tired,
you don't have to
compound things by owning up ...

Incidentally, note that I said 'competition pilots'
and not 'pilots
flying in competitions' ...

Ian