Beeld Wednesday August 2/ 2006

[Leprachaun]

Headlines - More accidents in 6 months than whole 2005 - Erika Gibson
Todays paper page 18 - Gilbert Thwala head of CAA Accident investigations made these statements - Pilots taking chances , no dissipline etc.to name a few . In february they issued guidlines to the industry - Pilots should stick to the basic rules - statistics (not mine) 34 aircraft accidents ,14 helicopters ,1 Acrobatic , 40 non type certified - of which the greatest increase was in the NTC type , I smell a rat , the pressure is mounting guys and gals , the Microlights are under scrutiny once again , I will do my weekly visit to CAA on Friday to find out whats Cooking , - why this in the local paper , we have been warned before to get our ( microlights ) act together , - I will try to contact Erica Gibson to find out more - is Big Brother onto something that we should and dont know about ???, Talk to ya later - Leprachaun

[Morph]

Ooh, I smell a conspiracy theorist here.

Actually the Green Irish Dwarf is right about the amount of accidents. This year has been hectic.

Guy's lets be extra careful out there, and remember, pre-flight, Pre-flight, PRE-FLIGHT

[GR8-DAD]

Conspiracy Never

Strangely enough the VERY latest Safety Brochure issued by CAA, received this morning with some other Notams, hot off the press, also focusses on summary of MPL accidents and stats for the last year.

[Free Spirit]

Well, CAA has been trying to get "rid" of the microlite problem for quite a while now, without success. I suspect that they are trying to get support for whatever laws they want to let loose upon us!!

But we cannot argue that the accidents have been too many and that nobody has been able to establish why. And the fact remains that there are MANY micro cowboys out there!! So if we cannot get our own house in order, they will do it for us.