Are we currently shifting our safety standards?
That’s the question Marcel Dürr asks on Facebook. His post specifically focuses on amateur pilots, not competitive pilots, who generally know what risks they’re taking.
Competitions only with EN-C wings?
Pál Takáts wrote an open letter on Facebook suggesting that competitions should only be held with EN-C gliders in the future. This has led to heated discussions on various platforms, mainly on Facebook. Keeping track of the pilots' opinions is naturally difficult, so I summarized all comments from Facebook (as of September 26, 2025) using ChatGPT.
Glider meets paraglider
Who among us has not yet had an encounter of the first kind (visual contact) with our flying colleagues, the glider pilots? In order to avoid an encounter of the second kind (physical contact), we should all adhere to the pre-flight rules. Achim Holzmann has explained this and other things clearly in a much-noticed video.
Safety training at the Flugschule Achensee
I'm actually a real safety training grouch, but since my last safety training was over 5 years ago, I still had enough holiday left, got the OK from my wife and the Flugschule Achensee still had places available at the beginning of October, I signed up there.
