Interesting approach.
In other FAA news, the third class medical is slated to go away!
Presidential signature was on the 15th. The FAA now has a year to put
it into the regulations.
Essentially, if you have held and not been denied an FAA aviation
medical within 10 years of 15 July 2016, a valid drivers license will
soon double as the third class medical required for private power
flying.
Wonder if a CASA Special Pilot Licence based on an FAA Private will
remain valid.
Jim
------ Original Message ------
From: "Mike Borgelt" <[email protected]>
To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia."
<[email protected]>
Sent: 7/17/2016 4:50:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Loss of control accidents
From latest Aviation Week and Space Technology discussing GA accidents,
primarily loss of control aka "stall spin"
Not all interventions will require
new devices. The Aircraft Owners and
Pilots Association (AOPA) is working
with UND’s aviation department to
test a circular landing pattern used
by the military, an operational modi-
fi cation of cials think can reduce the
stall-spin problems occurring in the
rectangular landing patterns taught
to and used by virtually all GA pilots.
George Perry, senior vice president
of the AOPA Air Safety Institute (ASI),
says the circular pattern, which he
used as a U.S. Navy pilot, is “easier,
more stabilized and allows the pilot
to more easily identify the precursors
of an impending stall” than the tradi-
tional rectangular pattern. “The only
pilots who do the crazy box pattern are
the GA pilots,” he says.
The study, which started in June,
will “get hard data to show whether it
is a better way to fly a pattern based
on workload and standardization,”
says Perry. A preliminary study with
13 pilots flying a wide variety of air-
craft (Cessna 140 to Cessna Citation)
at AOPA’s headquarters in Frederick,
Maryland, showed that the pattern
“works for a full spectrum of GA air-
craft,” says Perry.
If the results of the UND study are
positive, Perry says, ASI will work with
the FAA to introduce the concept to pi-
lots in training and testing materials.
“My goal is that in 3-5 years, the square
pattern will [have gone] the way of the
Dodo bird.”
Mike
Borgelt Instruments- design & manufacture of quality soaring
instrumentation since 1978
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