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A Safer Finishing Procedure A safer finishing procedure Accompanying article to the 2020 IGC Proposal from the Belgian National Aeroclub to change the current finishing procedure to a safer alternative. During the fourth competition day of A FEW EXAMPLES OF RECENT landing in a very small field took place. The the World Gliding Championships of ACCIDENTS airplane was very extensively damaged, 2010 in Szeged, Hungary, a competitor in and the competitor had to retreat from the the 15m class had barely sufficient The following list of accidents, is a non- competition. The pilot received full speed energy to make it to the airfield. Due comprehensive selection of accidents and points for the day, and a few finish altitude to his lack of speed, he could not pull up incidents in the past few years (2015-2019) penalty points. Landing out just before the over the traffic that was driving on the road during large international competitions: finish would have cost 340 more points. adjacent to the airfield. His left wing hit • A pilot was in a final glide to the airport the cabin of a truck, and the glider • A pilot was performing a 35km final glide, during an AAT. The weather that day was tumbled on the airfield. Luckily all people starting with a normally sufficient required very windy (40-50km/h), but thermals were involved survived, but the accident left L/D. There was 30km/h headwind. At 12km sufficient to get enough altitude to the truck driver with a disability. from the airport, only a 20:1 glide ratio was obtain safe final glide altitude. The last required to make it to the airfield. But then The major factor that contributed to creating final leg of the course was just 5km long, the pilot experienced much stronger than the circumstances of this accident, was but full into the 50km/h headwind. The normal sink for the next kilometers. That, the competition finish line procedure. pilot crossed the finish ring at 150m AGL combined with the significant headwind This procedure gave pilots too little (at the minimum altitude limit), with component, quickly eroded all margins. margin to perform safe approaches, and it 4.5km to go to the airport threshold. The The pilot crossed the finish ring in 51m caused many accidents and incidents in high wind caused a much poorer than AGL and had no other choice to land the decades before. The accident in normal glide ratio, and the pilot decided to straight-in into a field less than 1km from Szeged was the final straw, and the IGC start its engine below 100m AGL, which the airport. The plane was heavily decided to abandon the finish-line was insufficient to get it to thrust. The pilot damaged, and the pilot had to retreat from procedure in favor of a finish ring then crashed into a small field 1.6km away the competition. The pilot received full procedure. from the airfield, very extensively speed points for the day, and a few finish damaging the glider, and having to retreat altitude penalty points. Landing out just We believe that, despite the good intentions from the competition. The pilot received full before the finish ring would have cost of this decision, the current finish speed points for the day, and no penalty 200 more points. ring procedure has not significantly points. Landing out just before the finish decreased the dangers and accident rate. ring would have cost 300 more points. We believe that it does not go far enough • Under very similar circumstances as the previous accident, a pilot crossed the finish in taking away the inherent risk of low • A pilot was in the relatively normal end-part ring at 21m AGL, immediately made a 90 energy approaches, and that there are of a normal competition day. The weather degree turn and landed in a field at the better solutions that can vastly decrease was ok, and windspeed around 10-15km/h. edge of the ring. The glider was damaged. contest accidents during the final glide and The pilot started the final glide at a very Repairs were performed overnight, and the approach to the airfield. normal glide ratio from 45km distance of glider was ready just a few minutes before the airport. During the final kilometers to This article is a lot longer than most launching started the next day. The pilot the finish ring the pilot suddenly proposals presented to the IGC, because we received full speed points, and a few experienced much stronger than expected know that there is a lot of hesitance finish altitude penalty points. Landing out sink, and suddenly was not within reach of towards changing the current procedure. We just before the finish ring would have the airport anymore. After crossing the do think this issue is urgent and important. cost 240 more points. finish ring at 50m AGL, an emergency • A gaggle of 21 gliders was struggling to get As an example, an 18m glider (50:1 LD at finish on a day that many competitors get home. The last dying thermal was 31km 125km/h) that experiences 2m/s sink, has its home, you will lose hundreds of points (up to from the airport. Wind was 15-20km/h, for max glide ratio reduced to 15:1 at 200km/h. 667 points). Since our contests are very the most part coming from the side. The air competitive, those hundreds of points make A prolonged stretch of such sink eats up was virtually dead, so no large sink rates the difference between winning the altitude very fast. were experienced during the glide. The competition and ending up outside of the gliders left the final thermal, all starting at If this sink happens during a final glide close top10 or even top20. different altitudes, and thus different to the finish ring with a very low minimum Those few meters will end your chance of a required LDs. The highest glider was the finish altitude above ground (in the recent good overall result in the competition. No only one who made it home without past, some were even set at sub 100m AGL wonder pilots try to avoid it at all means. crossing the finish ring below the minimum altitudes), the glider finds itself in big trouble. altitude. 9 more gliders reached the finish If you then take into account that pilots and ring, but without sufficient altitude and thus In a very short span of time, the airport is not their crew spent thousands of euros, weeks of received penalty points. The ones who did within reach anymore, and at very low vacation time from their jobs, competing in reach the airfield, did so with very limited altitudes decisions have to be taken to find a many other competitions to get selected, and energy. Some gliders did last-ditch straight landing/crashing spot (or use the engine). perhaps a lifetime of anticipation to be at in landings in their fields, some into high This is exactly why the accidents before 2010 these competitions, it becomes very clear crops. Other gliders used their engines at with the finish line happened. The new why this happens. extremely low altitudes. One of those got procedure just moved the location from the his engine to thrust at 7m above a high- The pilots get stuck in a “racing mindset”. The accident from close to the runway threshold, crop field, and several others did so as well finish is so close, and when you cross it, all is to close to the edge of the finish ring. at very low altitudes. fine. When you don’t, you lose big. Other factors that can contribute to these All these accidents happened with the finish Only when the danger suddenly becomes accidents are strong headwinds, starting the ring procedure during major international very big, the pilot awakens from this racing final glide at a narrow glide slope due to lack competitions in the past 4 years, and they mindset, and goes into “Oh, I need to find a of thermals, and also peer pressure when involved all very well-known and experienced spot to land”-mindset. flying in a small group or in a gaggle (“The competition pilots, including world champions others are doing it so it must be OK”). Too often, this happens too late. One of the and a former OSTIV/IGC safety panel pilots who had an accident like this, told member. afterwards that they were completely focused If it happens to these people, it can happen to WHY DO THESE ACCIDENTS on reaching the finish and all seemed completely normal. They had no worries anyone. HAPPEN? regarding safety at all. Suddenly the This makes it clear to us, that this is not about Under the current finish-ring procedure, the margins were gone, and they realized the just a few really bad pilots making some really minimum finish ring altitude is mostly set danger they were in. It all happened so poor decisions. This is about even the very somewhere between 70m-150m AGL. incredibly fast. best pilots getting stuck in tunnel vision, tempted into very dangerous situations by our Pilots receive full speed points when they current rule and scoring system. pass at an altitude higher than the minimum finish ring altitude minus 100m. In most FAIRNESS competitions that is thus somewhere between The previous argumentation directly leads to WHEN DO THESE ACCIDENTS the ground, and 50m AGL. Pilots can thus do the conclusion, in regards of this issue of low HAPPEN? a straight-in finish or even rolling-finish into a energy final glides, that those pilots who take field just over the edge of the finish circle to a very large safety risk (for instance by doing These accidents happen when a pilot sinks get their speed points.
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