Hi All, I think the best thing about a license is that it would be a concrete goal for students to aim for after solo. This license would demonstrate that a pilot has sufficient skill to be responsible for their own actions.
The C certificate falls far short of this. With a C cert you still need instructor approval to fly cross country, or to take passengers. I'm not saying that a C certificate qualifies a pilot to make these decisions without instructor approval - rather there doesn't seem to be a country-wide bit of paper to work towards that says you are suitably qualified. In addition, unless you are a level 2 Independent Operator, your club is always responsible for your operations according to the MOSP - even if you are in a motorglider flying engine-on 1000K's away. It seems to me that with the GFA, virtually everyone is considered either a student or an instructor. There appear to be very few non-instructors who hold L2 independent ops. The problem is the L2 IO rating takes 200 gliding hours to earn. To an ab-initio student that is an impossibly huge number of hours. I still haven't heard any justifications for such a huge figure (Remember you can earn a PPL in less then a third of that time). Why not lower the 200 hour figure to say 30-50 hours and call it the license? Cheers, Al On 6/3/07, Mark Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Guys, There is an option now, Good?? Sustainable?? Fair?? Legal?? Its definately for "individual thinkers and not team players". Personaly i am quite proud to be a part of an Organization that although sometimes imperfect, (who isnt) speaks as one voice for our collective rights. Really if you dont agree with anything the GFA do, the job can be yours (be prepared for the workload though and real decisions are made by volunteirs). I do wonder about how that "parallel Path" gets administered though, I am in licensing now and boy the international requirements are conveluted to say the least. With cost recovery (see warbirds at the moment) it may be a very beurocratic and expencive path. I hate this whole show me your qualls crap out there now, when i see a red card (ASIC) around a persons neck at a non RPT AP it allerts me to the wanker status imediately. Worst is he has probably been told by some wannabe he MUST wear it. Take me back to the 70s, Sir Don actually still had benifits of his vision hapening. This is all my personal view and not to be taken as gosphel or any policy, i get it wrong regularly, its too bloody hard to keep clear. Its nice to hear other views and expressions though, constructive crytisism may one day push towards improvements albeit slowly.. In sumary there are a lot of warts on this toad and the toad we have is at least not poisonous. Cheers Mark P.S I do get payed by CASA, doesnt mean i am CASA, i do regularly see some really clever dedicated people in there though. and i owe the place a lot, if i knew then what i know now!!!!
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