Can anyone enlighten me as to which piece of legislation says a GPL has no validity in Australia?
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Future Aviation Pty. Ltd. < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Richard > > The question whether this is a nonsense rule just would not arise in a > proper licence based system. > > It works for all other forms of aviation in other parts of the world and I > really can’t see why it should be any > different in Australia. Perhaps we are overlooking something here and > therefore we should invite others to > provide valid reasons for the retention of the status quo. So far we > haven't come across any unresolvable > issues but that doesn’t necessarily mean that there aren’t any! > > Of course, not everyone inspires to a formal recognition of their > skills/expertise and the gliding fraternity > must respect that. It goes without saying that fellow aviators who want to > continue to fly under instructor > supervision should be allowed to do so. Nothing would change for them - > NOTHING AT ALL. > > I think it is fair to say that this topic has been discussed here like no > other before. Please wait a little longer > until everyone had a chance to forward their point of view and then > present the majority opinion of this forum > to the exec for urgent consideration. > > Many thanks and kind regards > > Bernard > > > > On 6 Feb 2017, at 1:36 pm, Richard Frawley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi Ulrich, > >> > >> On 06/02/2017, Ulrich Stauss <[email protected]> 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 > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Aus-soaring mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring >
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