GNZ Newsletter June 2022
From the president
Congratulations
JIM FINER
CALEB FINER
REEGAN TOCK
ALEX MICHAEL & ANDREW FLETCHER
IZZY BURR
SHIVNEET CHAND
LANCE FELDWICKE
ANTON LAWRENCE
GNZ AGM
The agenda is coming together.
Tim's guided tours of NZ clubs
Membership
Engineers
Take Note
From the desk of the NAO
Our hard working glider engineers perform a vital task of ensuring our gliders are safe and airworthy.
To ensure your glider engineer maintains their skills they are required to maintain their currency and apply for renewal every two years. And it’s that time of year for 25 of our engineers who need to renew by June 30th 2022.
The full list of all GNZ engineers is on the web site here https://gliding.co.nz/glider-engineers/ Only GNZ engineers listed in this link can work on your glider.
As part of their renewal process (no it’s not just automatically renewed) the engineers need to supply the NAO with a formal renewal application on a TECH 17 and also supply a log of work done in the past two years on a TECH 25. This is all explained in Section 4 of the MOAP page 106.
Pages 106 and 107 section 5 explains their currency requirements.
I look forward to 25 applications this month please 😊 Mike Strathern, NAO.
CAA Airspace Poster Updated
Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand
Logbooks back in stock
Pilot Logbook
High on tow, let it go!
Out of position
Incident Reports
- nosewheel collapse on tow plane following a heavy landing, multiple contributing factors
- glider out of position at top of aerotow, tow pilot concerned, instructor not concerned
- aerotow upset at 200 ft, rope broke, towplane crashed into trees, tow pilot fatally injured
- very low turn onto final at end of a competition flight, other landing options were available
- rear canopy of 2-seater opened and broke during winch launch, not locked before takeoff
- shards of steel winch cable passed through protective grate, contacted leg of operator
- ATC camp, launch commenced then aborted by glider pilot due to glider landed ahead
- ATC camp, heavy landing on last flight of day, instructor slow to react, tiredness possible
- ATC cadet retrieving aerotow rope ran in front of wing, operation paused for a rebriefing