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The accident rate very definitely has improved. Whether this is to do with flying standards, aircraft safety or increased regulation I wouldn’t want to say. But gliding is now safer than it was.
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Of course the Viking fleet is not subject to any of this, but the fact of the matter still stands that the lack of proper paperwork would have seen them grounded under any airworthiness system. You simply can’t fix aeroplanes and not write it down.
WRT to the accident rate, the BGA is constantly trying to reduce them by a variety of means.
https://members.gliding.co.uk/bga-safety-management/
It struck me at the time that some of the things some forumites were saying they had done were done by young men (I suspect) who thought they were immortal.
As to the paperwork, exactly. I'm sure the same would have happened whatever the ATC were flying.