sorry to barge in. a friend of mine (who is also a pilot but does not speak much English) found this photo in your journal & got very curious about the story behind it. he asked me to inquire about the details (what happened, where & why, etc) on his behalf. please feel free to ignore if busy or not inclined to talk w/ strangers. otherwise -- many thanks in advance.
I'll give you a quick outline of the incident. If I find the full report we have it around somewhere) I'll try to send you that as well. This is the best I can do from memory, any errors are mine alone. We fly in Hope, British Columbia, Canada. Our airfield is in the mountains and we do quite a bit of ridge and wave soaring. The crash occured at about the 3000 foot level of Hope Mountain which is 6000 feet high and quite steep in most places. The pilot had only a few solo hours and it was her first flight in a single seater (Grob 102 Club IIIB). She had been encouraged by an instructor to stay up long enough to complete her "C" Badge during the flight. It had been a long, hot day and she was already somewhat tired and dehydrated before the flight. Ridge soaring along the mountain the fatigue led to her paying insufficient attention to the airspeed and she let the airspeed drop to only a few knots above stall so that when an area of sink was encountered the inner wing stalled and the glider did a mush/spin entry. The inner wing hit the
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Wow! Thanks a lot for this detailed & interesting account. Now I'll do my best to translate it back into Russian with the minimum of distortions. (The problem is that I know next to nothing about gliders myself & have no clue about the appropriate Russian terminology.) I think I understood most of the description (including why the sink area leads to a stall - the lift force is probably correlated with the distance to the ground, right?). Anyway, my pilot-friend will probably understand the details even in my botched translation. Once again - many thanks for all the info.
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a friend of mine (who is also a pilot but does not speak much English) found this photo in your journal & got very curious about the story behind it. he asked me to inquire about the details (what happened, where & why, etc) on his behalf. please feel free to ignore if busy or not inclined to talk w/ strangers. otherwise -- many thanks in advance.
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Now I'll do my best to translate it back into Russian with the minimum of distortions. (The problem is that I know next to nothing about gliders myself & have no clue about the appropriate Russian terminology.) I think I understood most of the description (including why the sink area leads to a stall - the lift force is probably correlated with the distance to the ground, right?). Anyway, my pilot-friend will probably understand the details even in my botched translation. Once again - many thanks for all the info.
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