Mark,
You have of course identified one of the main stumbling blocks to successful
club operation and I agree whole-heartedly with your assessment of that. The
question is, not whether a RPL will solve this problem, but whether there is
a better way to solve this problem. For the record, I am in favour of "a
licence", just not sure it should be from CASA.
David Olsen
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [aus-soaring] Rec License
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 06:47:36PM +0930, Dav wrote:
>
> > This whole debate on this list seems do be dominated by wealthy owner
> > operators of motor gliders who want to operate independantly of the
GFA.
>
> <fx: mark clears throat>
>
> I don't own anything with wings. With the exception of some kind and
> gracious private owners who have let me fly their glider (wave to the
> QZ syndicate, thanks guys!), I've only ever flown club gliders.
>
> I object to the GFA's stance on this issue because, as a pilot of club
> gliders with nowhere near enough hours for an Ind. Ops rating, my flying
> is entirely at the mercy of the social lives of my club's instructors.
>
> This summer I'll fly a 300, which will almost certainly take more
> than 5 hours; At that point I'll qualify for my silver badge, and
> will apply for L1 Independent Ops. It'll have taken me almost three
> years to have reached that point -- three years worth of flying
> basically every weekend. Other pilots in my club don't necessarily
> fly every weekend; And because it's a university club, the overwhelming
> majority of members are with us for less than three years anyway ('cos
> they're only with the university for three years, then they move on).
> So hardly anyone in my club will -ever- qualify for Independent Ops,
> regardless of whether they're capable of handling the responsiblity.
>
> When I fly cross-country, I spend every minute of my flight except
> for the moments prior to the launch entirely outside the influence
> of the duty instructor. The fact that I have a cross country endorsement
> in my logbook tells me that my CFI is happy with that situation. So,
> if the only thing I need a duty instructor for during a flight is
> to approve the launch, why can't I get that approval by making a phone
> call, sending an email message, or (ideally) by having a signature
> in my logbook renewed during each annual flight review, subject to
> some kind of currency requirement? If that was possible on a wide
> scale, my club wouldn't have to keep cancelling flying days (or, in
> some cases, entire weekends) for no better reason than the fact that we
> can't find an instructor.
>
> That's why I think the GFA's attitude on this stinks, and why their
> defense of the status quo is reprehensible. If holding an RPL with a
> glider rating would solve this problem, then it has my wholehearted
> support.
>
> - mark
>
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