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Please fly carefully!

Safe Flying:	Equipment:
If you are in doubt with a special safety device, ask you wife or your partner!
"Safety Comes First" by Bruno Gantenbrink	How much is a glider pilot's life worth?
Safety does not sell	Safety Aspects for Glider Pilots
Safety  Tips  and  Training	Emergency Exit Assist System: NOAH
Achieving a Safe Winch Launch	Critical Comment on the subject of the "Recovery System"
Crosswind takeoffs and landings	Stall Warning Indicators in Gliders?  -  and More!
	Everything Depends On the Side String
	DEI-NT - Simply Flying!
Training for that moment when every second counts	Installation of an additional PDA or Logger
Do you use your seat-belts correctly?	The Roeger Hook and DG Sailplanes
Emergency Bailout - Are You Prepared?	The Piggott-Hook for locking the Brake Handle
Seeing has to be Learned	Automatic or Manual Parachute?
Don't smack the Mountain	Transponders for Sailplanes
Getting a Self-Launching Sailplane?	Cockpit:
Potential Dangers in Wave Soaring	Thoughts on Safety Cockpits in Gliders
Mid-air collisions by gliders	Crash test with a Glider Fuselage
An Accident Report from Personal Experience	The Consummate Safety Cockpit
Rules of the Air	“Make it as easy as possible!” – But for whom?

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"The Principle behind"

At the Headquarters of Volvo Cars in Gothenburg at the front wall you can read the following sentences:

Let us "downsize" it and read:

"Gliders are flown by People. Therefore, the guiding principle behind everything we make at DG Flugzeugbau is - und must remain - SAFETY"

Friedel Weber and the DG Team