Tim Shirley wrote: > When seeking to provide insurance cover to competition officials, GFA > and OAMPS also made use of the existing Sporting Licence structure to > make this possible without imposing a separate accreditation process for > competition pilots. This saved competition pilots the cost and > administrative burden of any approach that required extra paperwork. > I must admit to some issues with using the sporting licence for this - as 'accreditation' seems (from the discussions I have had) to really equate to pilot competency. Whilst the FAI licence implies a 'notional' competency (you need to get the application signed by your CFI first time around), there is absolutely no requirement to have the CFI involved in any renewal. Furthermore, there are many CFIs out there who rarely (if ever) fly in competitions - so how are they to judge competency?
Given this, I really doubt that the requirement for an FAI licence actually does much at all to guarantee pilot competency at the competition level. -- Robert Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] +61 (0)438 385 533 http://www.hart.wattle.id.au _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
