At 08:30 AM 22/06/02 +1000, you wrote:
>> 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
Is this the same Mark Newton who was telling us a couple of months ago that
the system was perfectly OK and all anyone had to do was work within it?
Remarkable how attitudes change when it is your own ox being gored.
Mike
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