SafetyTraining
Safety Training gives you a change to practice advanced flying
skills under the instruction of an instructor. We do this four
ways: simulator, video, in flight radio, and
tandem instruction. With simulator work we can instruct you how
to handle inflight problems in a safe and relaxed enviroment.
Simularly with video instruction you can review flight probems
before they happen in the air. We use radio instruction to coach
you through non-treatening procedures. We reserve tandem instruction
to help you through the most demanding inflight challenges. Parasoft
offered S.I.V. courses from 1992-2005 but has dicontinued them
because of
the added
risks
to participants,
limited
value
and false sense of security they gave participants. As double
world champion Rob Whittal comments "Your biggest danger is to
overreact and end up in a cascade where every aspect is out of
the normal and you have no experience or training to deal with
it. Ok, you went to a SIV course, good I hope you had a nice
holiday and enjoyed the ride. This is by no means enough training
and nor does it feel like a ‘real combat’ situation,
where the invisible enemy launches a surprise attack at 400m
high above a rocky ridge. It gave you a taste of what can happen,
over water, with a person on the radio telling you what to do
and when. You would need to go once a month to become proficient
at controlling and understanding these situations. On top of
that, a real air deflation has a very different reaction to a
self induced one."
Simulartor Work:
-entry in and exit from the harness
using stirrup
-knowledge of four in flight
brake positions
-using active flying to keep
glider overhead
-when and how to use reserve
parachute
-flying
posture for more efficent
flying
-decent techniques practice
-when and how to engage speed bar
-stabilo pull
Video instruction:
-search and recovery from deep stall
or parachutage
-spin avoidance and recovery techniques
-full stall to reset glider
In flight radio instruction:
- small asymmetric deflations
-pitch oscillations
-big ear use
-big ears landing approach in turbulence
Tandem Instruction:
-full frontal deflations
-wing overs
-B-Line Stall -spiral dive entry and exit techniques
-mastering maneuvers |
