At 06:40 PM 20/06/02 +0930, you wrote:
>Mike:
>
>If you'd been reading carefully, you'd have seen that I'm a critic of
>the GFA's official position, and have said on several occasions that I
>believe that if their views see prominence then they'll become increasingly
>irrelevent.
>
>If you've read my words and concluded that I support the GFA on this,
>I can only assume that your conclusions are being driven more by
>your preconceptions than by what I've actually said. Or maybe you're
>ignoring what I've actually said in favour of an interpretation which
>allows you to make witty wan-liners.
Mark,
I'm actually hoping you could make a concise and succinct statement of your
position. Proposing some alternative GFA issued licence equivalent isn't
very useful and only serves to muddy the waters.
The GFA is a legally protected monopoly at present. I, for one, am not
prepared to hold a gun to anyone's head to force them to join any private
organisation because they want to fly gliders or anything else for that
matter.
Let's deal in facts.
Fact 1: There will be some government regulation of private and sporting
aviation.
I cannot imagine this not being so in the present political and social
climate. It even can be useful if you want your operation and/or aircraft
to be insurable. Insurance will be difficult to impossible to get if you
operate in a legislative vacuum.
Fact 2: We all(well most of us) want this regulation to not cause us
unnecessary expense and trouble.
Take a really good look at the state of private and sporting aviation - not
just gliding. It is a legislative shambles. Numerous private organisations
with various degrees of legally protected power resulting in heaps of
expense and trouble for those who want to fly more than one kind of sports
aviation, or even one kind for that matter. I'm willing to bet there are
large loopholes and inherent contradictions in all this legislation.
Fact 3: There will be change. The GFA has not accepted this.
The last guys to "die in the ditch" were the Iraqi army. The ones not smart
enough to shoot their officers and surrender were buried in the trenches by
tanks with bulldozer blades attached. This may be an apt analogy.
Mike
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