http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=5376
hook in faliure (almost)
Lisa Wendt - 2016/10/06 20:22:53 UTC
Chatsworth, California
There's nothing like a visual. Turn around and look to see if you're hooked in. I do it on launch all the time.
Oh good. A female Grebloville dickhead incapable of:
- completing her preflight before getting to the downwind end of the runway
- understanding the difference between a preflight and hook-in check
- adhering to any semblance of u$hPa's most fundamental and critical safety regulation
- recognizing any risk involved in repeatedly setting down and picking up a glider at launch position
- having any consideration for people with their shit together in line behind her
Any relation to...
http://www.chgpa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1166
Thoughts on responsibility...
Scott Wilkinson - 2005/10/05 14:10:56 UTC
We visited Steve Wendt yesterday, who was visibly choked up over Bill's death. For Steve, it all comes down to one thing: you've got to hook in. Period.
...Steve? Hard to beat his take on the issue - try as one might.
Also, my good friend J Shelly used to tell me, "Never refuse a hang check."
And fuck your dickheaded friends too.
I understand pilots are in the moment when they are walking to launch but one more check doesn't hurt.
Luen Miller - 1994/11
After a short flight the pilot carried his glider back up a slope to relaunch. The wind was "about ten miles per hour or so, blowing straight in." Just before launch he reached back to make sure his carabiner was locked. A "crosswind" blew through, his right wing lifted, and before he was able to react he was gusted sixty feet to the left side of launch into a pile of "nasty-looking rocks." He suffered a compound fracture (bone sticking out through the skin) of his upper right leg. "Rookie mistake cost me my job and my summer. I have a lot of medical bills and will be on crutches for about five months."
As someone who has been on pilots' nose wires when they did their hang check, I was frequently asked, "How does everything look?" by the pilot--who was looking down.
1. Pilots hanging prone and looking down. What assholes.
2. Name some of the issues you and the "pilot" have discovered in the courses of those exercises.
My response was, "Think it looks fine but you may want to look for yourself."
What if they connected their harnesses to their gliders first, preflighted, then suited up? And/or did walk-throughs subsequent to connection and checked suspension?
Best not to rely on others' eyeballs.
No. One should always rely in his own...
Jay Devorak - 2016/09/22 16:26:42 UTC
I remember looking at my hang strap and back up. I remember screwing my carbineer closed.
...the way Jay did sometime before moving to the ramp and getting in an extended argument with Andy about whether or not he was hooked in.
There is no ONE solution--ALL are wonderful.
Spoken with such authority by yet another Grebloville product with her head a couple feet up her ass.
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25550
Failure to hook in.
Steve Davy - 2011/10/24 10:27:04 UTC
OK- how many times does he need confirm that he is hooked in? And when would be the best time to make that confirmation?
Brian McMahon - 2011/10/24 21:04:17 UTC
Once, just prior to launch.
Christian Williams - 2011/10/25 03:59:58 UTC
I agree with that statement.
What's more, I believe that all hooked-in checks prior to the last one before takeoff are a waste of time, not to say dangerous, because they build a sense of security which should not be built more than one instant before commitment to flight.
Boy do we need another nice definitive kill - preferably in Southern California - to liven up the conversation a bit. Most of the launches out there are WAY...
http://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5566/14704620965_ce30a874b7_o.png
...too survivable.;
