Minimum syllabus from AUF Ops Manual:
 
 
Note this is a minimum. AUF (and GA) schools vary a fair bit in consistency. If you are only exposed to the GFA way of standardised training in Australia, seeing how the powered boys do it can be a bit of an eye opener. This isn't good or bad, just different!
Some of the more rigorous AUF schools follow the CASA Day VFR syllabus and as the leading paragraph says, this will be the future default anyway.
AUF (and GA) instructors tend to teach out of a mixture of various books and often their own notes. Compare this to GFA instructors who all use the same GFA instructors manual (once again, not better or worse, just different).
 
So someone with an _ultralight glider_ would get the same minimum training as any other ultralight aircraft/pilot and any extra would depend on experience/knowledge/foresight of the training instructor.
 
(What I guess you are thinking)
AUF do not teach spin recoveries. All (I think) aircraft on the ultralight register are forbidden from aerobatics by the legislation that allows ultralights to fly at all. Consequently all ultralights are placarded "non aerobatic", even those which would be aerobatic if on the VH register. However, RAAus do have some recommendations about getting spin training in gliders/GA.
 
RAAus also do biennials (as per GA) but clearly that can be as complex or simple as the instructor on the day allows.

Regards
SWK
 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Ruddock
Sent: Wednesday, 21 December 2005 10:35 AM
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Subject: [Aus-soaring] ultralight gliders

Just out of interest, what are the training requirements for someone who buys or builds an ultralight glider, and flies it under the auspices of the ultralight authorities?

 

 

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