Mark Newton said:
"and the now defunct parallel path"
It is still alive and well at present, and probably will be for a while yet,
following a conversation I had with CASA a few days ago.
Even if CAO 95.4 para 4.1(a) is repealed, which may not happen, you can
still fly gliders via other legal means.
Chris McDonnell
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From: "Mark Newton" <[email protected]>
To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia."
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Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] L-13 etc
On 24/08/2010, at 7:47 AM, Mike Borgelt wrote:
Mark Newton should have gone to another flying school in the swamp. There
are few problems which if tackled in just the right way cannot be made
more expensive and difficult to solve.
Sure, and the same logic says that the mythical disappointed trainees
you're always banging on about can go to gliding clubs with Nimbus 4DMs
and Jabirus.
I can't see any particular reason why your preferred training path
can't happen right now under the current regulatory framework, and
there are enough gliding clubs out there conjoined with ultralight ops
now to make the option available. If it's so good, why isn't the market
demanding it?
I know that I could have made different decisions to get a different
result in my GA training. For instance, I could have taken a couple
of weeks off work and turned up at Parafield every day until I finished
the license (if I took the _right_ two weeks and didn't get weathered-out.
I'd have been even more frustrated if I'd burned a fortnight of annual
leave and didn't have a ticket at the end of it...!)
But within the time constraints I had available (essentially one day
per week, which had to be on a weekend) I had to take what I could
get.
Just like all the people in gliding, ultralights, and the now defunct
parallel path: We all invest the personal resources we can afford,
and take what we can get in return.
Aviation requires personal discipline, dedication and lots of time.
You can't get away from that, regardless of how you choose to do it.
The idea that you can wave a magic wand and a 2-seat ultralight purchase
order in front of a gliding operation to solve its member retention
and safety issues is fanciful and overly simplistic.
Any better ideas?
- mark
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