Well I am part of the "new lot". I am probably the newest member of the Board. I did not go out seeking the role. Some people asked me to help work with NSW Gliding. I did that and circumstances ended up that I was the delegate to the Board for NSW.
Give me a list of the things that you ALL are not happy with and I will start to work through them to resolution. I cannot guarantee you will like the resolution, but I can guarantee that I will try my best to make sure there is a fair hearing. /daveb On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Mike Borgelt < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> > Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments > phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 > fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 > cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 > Int'l + 61 429 355784 > email: [email protected] > website: www.borgeltinstruments.com > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > -- Director | Boulter Associates Pty Ltd t: (02)4626 7595 | m: 0417 705 997 | e: [email protected] w: www.boulterassociates.com.au Member of Informgroup - www.informgroup.com.au Member of ConsultGroup - www.consultgroup.net.au
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