Well done Chris – hard and unrewarding work I would imagine; so thank you for all your time and diligence. Not the easiest job in the world either in terms of the diplomacy required in our sport, or the attention to detail and responsibility it carries with it.
Thank you.
And a what great quote.
Tim
From: tvhgc_members@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvhgc_members@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Williams
Sent: 01 December 2014 10:17
To: tvhgc_members@googlegroups.com
Subject: [TVHGC Members] Safety handover
For those of you who couldn't make it to the AGM I'd like to welcome Matt Rawlins as my successor in the club's Safety role. Matt is a hugely experienced solo and tandem paraglider pilot and has a lot to offer.
Thank you to you all for making my year as Safety Officer much easier than it could have been. Our sport can easily catch out the unwary and, looking at the sky on a busy day, it's perhaps surprising that we have as few incidents as we do. However, can I please ask you to try to learn the lessons from others' mistakes, rather than ignore them and have to learn from your own. Some pilots have had lucky escapes on our hills this year and. very sadly, one pilot died. This quotation from 100 years ago, when aviation was in its infancy, sums things up nicely.
Fly safe!
Chris
By far the greater number of aeroplane accidents are due to precisely the same circumstances that have caused previous accidents. A distressing feature of these accidents is the evidence they afford of the unwillingness, or the inability, of many pilots to profit from the experiences and mistakes of others.
— Gustav Hamel and Charles C. Turner, Flying: Some Practical Experiences. Published posthumously in 1914.
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