for a private owner with a SL, this has to be a nonsense rule and I suspect it gets broken a lot.
I really think its time for this rule to significantly modified. John, Bernard, others…do you want your new owners of the shiny new SL aircraft you sell constrained by this? > On 6 Feb 2017, at 2:02 pm, Al Borowski <al.borow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Ulrich, > > On 06/02/2017, Ulrich Stauss <usta...@internode.on.net> wrote: >> Please correct me if I’m wrong but the L2 Independent Operator endorsement >> has always allowed glider pilots to operate independently within Australia >> (at least as much as that is possible). The question is why don’t pilots >> take that route? >> > > I suspect the requirements may have something to do with it. > > 100 hours command (>5x restricted RAA license, more than a level 1 > gliding instructor) > Club committee approval > Requires blessing of CFI every year > > This still means you have to belong to a training club (else you would > have no CFI), so scratch the "get a few qualified friends, buy a 2nd > hand glider and launch from a winch" approach. > > Cheers, > > Al > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
