Safety Article by Mike Meier

[mcgowantk]

I saw that Wills Wing recently updated its webpage, and it highlighted an award that Mike Meier recently won for a paper he presented at a conference. It discusses safety and when a pilot's decisions could be considered "safe" or not. I think it is worth reading. In the spirit of a spring safety lecture/meeting, I encourage you to spend a little time considering his theory and how it it may relate to your flying. A link to the paper is below.

Tom McGowan

https://www.willswing.com/why-cant-we-g ... ety-thing/

[XCanytime]

That particular article written by Mike was in an issue of the Hang Gliding Magazine from 1998 or so I think. It is very interesting and I second that emotion. The inspiration for the article came out of a test flight that Mike made from Marshall or Crestline where he crashed the glider in midday thermal conditions and almost broke his neck. He stated that he had been doing that for many years, test flying and landing in midday thermal conditions and had never had an issue and then BAM, he got hit with turbulence at a very low altitude. He was just able to level the wings before pounding in. I don't believe he had wheels on the glider. Bacil