Yes it is a croc of ......... I would have thought a GPC could have been sufficient, conditional on you class 2 or higher medical being passed without condition
So, just what in the GPC is not covered to require this additional expense, effort and administration? That's what I'd really like to know! Michael > On 1 Sep 2014, at 2:38 pm, Simon Hackett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just want to call out one other thing from the thread that I have just had > confirmed separately. > > The Australian CASA Glider Pilot License doesn't allow a pilot to fly a > Glider in Australia. > > SRSLY? > > Its 2014. Why can't we live in a place where the GFA issues (or authorises) > Glider Pilot Licenses for Australian glider pilots to fly Australian Gliders > with (including ... in Australia)? > > I'm not bothered about an underlying requirement to be a GFA member in good > standing (or to be separately authorised by CASA) if that floats the GFA's > boat. > > Rather, I'm talking about the crazy notion that the outcome of doing > everything right in the GFA system isn't an outcome where one can be a pilot > licensed to fly a glider with a license to fly a glider called a Glider Pilot > License - and where such a thing now exists but it doesn't actually work in > the country of issue. > > I actually *have* a US glider license of precisely that form (a US pilots > license with 'Glider' as an endorsement on it). I don't see that cramping the > style of glider pilots in the USA. Quite the opposite, actually. > > I'm not really interested in how we got precisely here. > > I'm interested in what possible reason the GFA would have, today, to *not* to > support the notion of a Glider Pilot License as something routinely issued to > Australians to let them fly gliders in Australia - and for that to be the > thing that people get issued with routinely (when, for instance, they achieve > Silver C standard). > > Is there actually a valid reason for this state of affairs (as opposed to > 'thats just not how we roll, son...') why this isn't the case - or why it > shouldn't become the case? > > In other words, if I have a CASA issued Glider Pilot License, what, > precisely, makes it unable to be sufficient to be permitted to fly a glider > here (assuming one has a valid and current flight review)? > > I apologise for not having (yet) dug up the shiny new 1st September-onward > regulations that govern the Glider Pilot License (and as already noted, CASA > haven't yet actually published the application form on their web site > either). But do those legally engaged regulations actually say that you can't > use a Glider Pilot License to... fly a glider with? > > Coming at this cold, honestly, this reads like a Monty Python script :) > > Regards, > Simon > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
