A misjudged approach to a high accident rate : exploration of accident causes and instructor decisons relating to inexperienced glider pilots

Very little research has focussed on inexperienced pilots and there is a notion in literature and popular texts that such pilots are one of the safest groups. Despite this, ‘early-solo’ UK glider pilots were found to have a higher accident rate than any other group. Research was conducted in order t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jarvis, Stephen
Other Authors: Harris, Don
Language:en
Published: Cranfield University 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1826/3750

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