Glider pilot hurt in Wandiligong crash

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Article here.

 

 

[kaz3g]

Oh.. hope the poor fellow is ok.

 

Unfortunately, glider canopies are usually lower to the ground than the top wire of a farm fence and some horrible accidents have occurred when pilots have landed short or too long.

 

Ground loop, anything, but if you are in a low-slung aircraft don't go into that wire head on or you might just lose it.

 

kaz

 

 

[facthunter]

Exactly kaz3g...... Fred Hoineville, famous skywriter, and very experienced pilot, died in a powered glider at Goulbourne not clearing a fence on take-off.. Any glider type plane, Saphire/drifter etc ground loop it, rather than hit the fence, straight on. Nev