Did you know that the Deed with Casa is between the glider pilot and CASA
> On 4 Feb 2017, at 11:06 pm, Mark Newton <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 4 Feb 2017, at 5:55 PM, Greg Wilson <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> One low cost step toward improving the gliding "product" would be to make >> GPC holders responsible for their own flying instead of relying on a L2 >> instructor's presence at launch. >> >> I can understand how the current system evolved from clubs wanting to >> control pilots in their aircraft but surely it's time for this outdated >> system to be relinquished. > > It didn't evolve from clubs wanting to control pilots in their aircraft. It > evolved from GFA wanting to control club operations. > > GFA implements a chain of command: > > Pilot -> Duty Instructor -> CFI -> RTO -> CTO -> (CASA, but we're not meant > to believe that) > > Each link in the chain is, as previously observed, equivalent to a "rank." > Authority flows downwards, with each layer following the command of the layer > above. Responsibility flows upwards: The duty instructor is "responsible" for > the operation (how? never really defined). The CFI is "responsible" for the > panel. And so on. > > Sitting at the middle of everything is GFA, HQ, setting policy centrally, > implemented by the chain of command. > > It's all right there in the MOSP ("standing orders.") > > I speculated earlier that it happened like this in the 1950s because so many > of the early GFA people had military aviation involvement, so setting up a > command hierarchy would've been a natural way to approach civilian aviation. > Society was a lot more hierarchical then too. > > It isn't anymore. > > >> >> Enough discussion here may even start movement in that direction from GFA. >> What do you think? >> > > Can't be here. GFA started their own website forums for members specifically > so they wouldn't need to listen to this one. > > Members need to get upset about this. Get organised. > > - mark > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
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