Well Sean,
The GFA has put lots of things in place to limit or restrict our
ability to fly.
The whole concept of "supervision".
The dual control check after rigging is another.
Annual flight reviews when everyone else in recreational aviation in
this country only requires them every 2 years and at gliding clubs
you get to see everyone take off and land all the time anyway. Not
that there seems to be any evidence that they have the slightest
effect on stopping people killing themselves.
The ridiculous minimum hours for a Level 2 independent operator
rating (you can get a CPL with fewer hours than that in the real
world). Why not just call it a PPL and have people add the rating to
the power one? Might even get some new glider pilots.
High membership fees that are spent on what exactly?
High "Airworthiness administration fees" for what exactly? The
maintenance release must be the most expensive useless book in existence.
You may not know it but the GFA didn't want to let gliders with
Experimental certificates into contests when CASA changed the regs to
provide for these.
Emilis makes a good point in his post. Just how much worse could a
new mob do? The current mob have halved the membership numbers while
the population of Australia has gone up by 25%. Amongst other things
this has caused a collapse in older used glider prices.
Still happy with the GFA?
Mike
At 08:22 PM 22/04/2009, you wrote:
Robert,
You may find that like many other members we simply don't really
mind what the GFA does as long as we are allowed to continue flying
and soaring in piece. If heaven forbid the GFA put in place
something else that stops or limits our ability to fly. Say another
rule that (and this is toungue in cheek) requires a second Level 2
instructor to always be on the ground to supervise us. Then yes we
might just get a little upset.
If the only feed back is that we don't want the new rules then
please feel free to fight the good fight to make sure the new rule
does not happen.
Your in appathy (and I have served on the board so I understand
your commitment)
Sean
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