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| The Finnish
Aeronautical Association hosted the 2009 Junior World Gliding Championships held in
Räyskälä during July. |
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| The notes on
"Ditching" (from the website) included some interesting reading. |
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| The extract on
right is unedited ... |
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| http://www.jwgc2009.fi/ |
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| If you
remember and you have time, close the airbrakes before the landing-glide in water stops. |
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| In
spite of your landing-gear position modern glider will dive at the end. Don´t worry if
landing was made with normal procedure it will pop-up again. |
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| Typically
the canopy will broke when it dives but glider floats. It floats well. |
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| After
recovering and starting to swim/wade to shore, close the canopy. It keeps all the stuff
like parachute inside the plane. (First the chute-pack floats and then it sinks...) |
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| If the
pilot can´t swim properly and there is help coming nearby, stay over the cockpit or over
the wing and wait for the helper coming close. |
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| Take all overalls and extra clothes off. They suck all
the water and weigh like hell. Then start swimming or wading. Water temps at that time of
summer are normally 17-22 degs." |
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