On 6 Feb 2017, at 6:42 PM, Future Aviation Pty. Ltd. <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> Hi Mathew
>
> I seem to have missed something!
> Your reply seems to indicate that the GPCertificate is upgradable to a
> GPLicence in Australia.
> Is that correct and how would one go about it?
If you have a part 61 CASA license (or if you’re one of the decreasing number
of people with a pre-Part 61 license ready for conversion) you can have a
glider endorsement attached to it.
The GPC is taken as evidence that you’re qualified to receive the endorsement.
The endorsement is an ICAO-compliant addition to your license which should be
respected by other ICAO contracting States.
The endorsement is not accepted by CASA as a qualification to fly gliders in
Australia. You need to maintain your GFA and club memberships to do that.
The endorsement isn’t available if you have a CASA Recreational Pilot License
(RPL): The RPL isn’t an ICAO compliant license, so it isn’t valid outside
Australian jurisdiction, so there’s no point adding a rating to it that’s only
valid outside Australia.
At present, the only legal way to fly a GFA registered glider is to:
- Be in Australia.
- Complete maintenance on the glider sufficient to obtain a GFA maintenance
release.
- Validate the maintenance release by inspecting it with a GFA DI rating.
- Be a member of the GFA in good standing.
- Be a member of a GFA-affiliated gliding club in good standing.
- Either:
* Submit to the authority of a duty instructor,
* Hold a Level 1 Independent Operator rating and submit to the authority
of a CFI; or
* Hold a Level 2 Independent Operator rating, and fly at a place that
isn’t currently under
the authority of a GFA duty instructor.
No amount of licensing from CASA can currently modify those requirements.
Technically you could import your own glider, get your own CofA and CofR nfrom
CASA, get a LAME to issue maintenance releases every year, and fly it under the
authority of your CASA RPL or PPL.
Transferring a GFA registered glider to the CASA register or vice versa will
almost certainly be prohibitively expensive because GFA’s maintenance system
isn’t the same as CASA’s, so it probably isn’t practical for an RPL or PPL
holder to operate without the GFA.
You’d also technically need a CASA CPL holder with a glider endorsement to give
you an Aeroplane Flight Review every two years, but I’m guessing Cathy could do
that so that probably isn’t insurmountable.
- mark
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