Airworks Foreign SIV Courses
SIV - Simulated Incidents in Flight
SIV in the first world
Lake Annecy, France 19 - 24 May 2007
This course is personally tailored specifically to ensure that whatever level pilot you are now, you'll remain in one piece to become an old pilot!
As well as being educational, SIV is great fun... The initial trepidation at collapsing your perfectly functional glider is rapidly replaced by a huge grin as you learn how safe your wing is and just how easy it is to pilot out of the most unusual attitudes :)
If you do manage to get it slightly wrong or are just having too much fun to stop, the warm fresh water of Lake Annecy waits patiently below...Itinerary:
Saturday: You will arrive at Geneva in the afternoon and will be driven directly to launch for an orientation flight. If you are traveling independently you need to plan to get there by 10:00 or you'll miss the first briefing & flight.
Sunday: We'll go over reserve and harness systems, ensuring that everyone knows that theirs will function correctly if required. We'll then do some afternoon free flying - Let's see if the magic lift works and we can do the petit tour du Lac.
Monday - Thursday: loads of SIV flying!
We will be returning to the UK on Friday, but you may choose to stay for the weekend's free flying with Irwyn. How much is it going to cost? How about a measly £450 including transport to launch, lifejacket hire, Briefing and video de-briefing, tuition, DVD of the trip etc.
We have booked accomodation at the Maison du Moulin at Doussard. You will be responsible for your own accomodation bill, but costs are only in the region of 35 euro/night. There are of course many local inexpensive eateries.
This year, flights are not included in the cost. However the trip is scheduled around BA's low cost Gatwick-Geneva flight:
BA2736 08:45 19 May from Gatwick to Geneva
and returning on:
BA2737 at 12:00 on 25 May from Geneva. (There are also loads of suitable Heathrow flights)
Please send us a cheque, payable to 'Airtrips', for the full amount as soon as possible to confirm your place - This trip will fill quickly - we are not planning any further SIV trips this year. Book now on 01273 858 108.
WARNING
If you have been reading of pilots' exploits in Windsock, the SHGC Magazine, lately, you'd think that SIV training was only for totally deranged, gung ho types.
This is NOT SO! We make a point of avoiding putting you in situations where you are likely to touch your canopy, whilst still covering the whole range of situations from which you could need to recover.
There is no advisable time to put yourself into a position from which you could fall into your wing and for this reason we do not teach 'Search for Stall' until you have experienced of full stall, the reason being that when searching for stall, a high percentage of pilots will inevitably find it...
Likewise we do not teach turn reversals to low airtime pilots as these are an unnecessary and dangerous aerobatic manoeuever
