Safety is the effort to identify the existing risks, to assess them and to take the appropriate measures to avoid negative impacts.
The EGU’s role in safety aligns with its official role, which is “to support and represent the interests of its members at the European level, in respect of all relevant regulatory matters affecting gliding and soaring”. As such, the EGU safety workstream has 4 key activities:
- We act as a coordinator and amplifier for urgent safety issues thereby enabling concerns to be properly voiced however and by whomever they are initiated.
- We engage with regulatory and advisory organizations (such as EASA and EAS), and provide a presence at important gliding-related events, so we have pan-European visibility and enhanced effectiveness in providing specific experience and input to the official outputs of these organizations such as reports and publications.
- We initiate and support specific safety-related events such as “season openers” with the objective of providing active engagement in promoting safety and a safety culture.
- We host on our website a “one stop shop” to point people to important safety resources that already exist within national and international organisations.
Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Ukraine, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, USA, The Vintage Gliding Club
Safety Systems. These links include details of formal annual safety reviews, routine safety bulletins, safety management systems, reporting mechanisms, and a miscellany of general safety topics:
Safety Papers: EASA European Plan for Aviation Safety 2016-2020
Formal safety reviews: EASA – 2022, EASA – 2023, EASA – 2024,
Safety Bulletins: Gliding NZ, UK BGA, UK CAA
Safety Management Systems: EASA Overview, UK Overview, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Ukraine, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, USA, The Vintage Gliding Club
Reporting Mechanisms: Denmark, UK Airprox,
Risk Management: DK – Safety Workshop,
These links address topics associated with preparation for and carrying out flights:
UK – Preparation for flights, BE – Accident Report
UK – Currency Barometer, FR – Actions Vitales,
UK – Safe Winch Launching, USA – Wing Runner Course,
FR – Safe Aerotowing Video, UK – Safe Aerotowing,
UK – Lookout, UK – Spin Avoidance,
NZ – Mountain Flying, FR – Safety in Mountain Flying,
FR – General Safety Topics 2023, UK – General Safety Topics, USA – General Topics including safety
These links address issues in support of glider operations:
UK – Health and Safety, UK – medical matters, UK – Trailers, UK – Child Protection
These links are a miscellany of other topics not ideally suited to other categories: