At 09:00 AM 2/07/02 +1000, you wrote:
>On 27 Jun, Mike Borgelt wrote:
>
>> I can just see it now. A pilot in an oxygen equipped glider on a good day
>> breaks off his climb at 12000 feet because his high altitude rating isn't
>> current any more. A little later he lands out because his ridge soaring
>> rating has lapsed and he doesn't use the working ridge that was available.
>>
>> Get real.
>
>I really don't believe this, your hypocrisy and ego are truly mind
>blowing. Perhaps you should seek psychological counselling?
>
>On the one hand you miss no opportunity to criticise, nay castigate, the
>GFA and club instructors, principally on the gounds of incompetence (ie
>poor safety) and yet here you encourage a person whose currency in
>particular competencies is rusty to exercise those competencies.
No,
I'm just pointing out that stupid and unrealistic rules won't get obeyed.
Like much of what the GFA does now.(This applies to CASA also. There are so
many rules that they become counter productive - most experienced pilots
learn which are real and which are useless. The problem is that lesser
experienced pilots don't know this. Our aviation rules are about 5 times
the word count of the US FARs)
By the way I've seen from an AOPA committee member some material suggesting
that for pilots with more than 400 hours the BFR has NO effect on safety.
If we are to put people to the trouble and expense of complying with rules
we really should make sure that the rules are based on evidence.
>
>Whilst I will agree with you that a person whose rating on a particular
>competency has expired *may* still be safe in exercising that competency
>(people's skill retention varies, standards necessarily average).
>Alternatively, they may through dumb luck or some such come away from
>the exercise with life and glider intact.
>
>However, the point about well designed competency standards is that they
>guard *me* against some self inflated idiot (probably you if this is
>truly your attitude) flying unsafely and knocking me out of the sky and
>making my children orphans, to say nothing of wrecking my beautiful
>glider.
>
>You are trully full of bile and bullshit.
No, Robert, you are. If you had the faintest idea what you were talking
about I'd listen to you. At least I'm not wanting to be an instructor. I
pity your future students.
Mike
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