The purpose of the final paragraph of my last posting was to counter an impression, that one might have got from the newspaper article, that all ten glider airproxes were caused by gliders being in the wrong place.
I do not suggest that glider pilots as a class include only those who reach perfection in their airmanship.
Nor would I class all power or other pilots as deserving of some lower level of respect just because some of them, too, fall from grace.
The main point I hoped to make was that while technology might one day help overcome some, if not all, of the imperfections of human performance, it cannot do so yet in the particular field covered by this thread, nor can some of the earlier suggestions yet be adopted.
Chris N (an imperfect glider pilot)
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