Enough is Enough

In the 28 years I have been flying gliders in region 11, we have had 12 attempted flights with a control disconnected; Pegasus

JJ - Good note. I'll sign up. Jim Indebro got me signing my wing tape each day at Crazy Creek. Even if you leave the bird assembled, do a positive the next day and a complete preflight, then resign and redate the tape. It's a great practice.

Jim C.

What is this fixation with signing wingtape.

Give the line crew a clipboard and a simple form you sign it as you are hooked up, they have a piece of paper with your X on it. Liability issue over.. Darwin theory can take care of the rest.

Al

signing a piece of tape is easier than chasing a clipboard full of paperwork around. The tape stays with the glider, and is right there when the rope is hooked up.

Teh tape is also the piece that get emulsified on impact.... Meanwhile the clipboard goes back to the FBO office after the launch.

Nuff said.

Al

I don't get this wing tape thing.

Here in NZ, the log book that is kept in every glider had columns in each entry for two signatures. If the entry is 'DI' then one signatire is required. If the entry is 'Rig' or 'Rig + DI' then two signatures are required.

Don't you guys have that?

Unless they have procreated already offcourse .............

Good point Bruce, In the US an A&P is required to sign off after any control system has been opened. Gliders are exempt from this FAR because most of them are designed to be taken apart quick and easily. So the answer is no, in the good old US of A, nobody is required to sign off nothing and we are paying for it dearly. JJ Sinclair

Simpleton.....

Nah that would be...

'Billy Maze here for Oxyclean....'

Al

So what does everybody have to sign then?

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