"That’s just Imposter Syndrome. Alan Barnes knows Ingo would be doing 12. :)"
Bugger, suddenly I am third-class :) Cheers Paul On 2 September 2014 16:06, Mark Newton <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 2, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Paul Bart <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you for a detailed and logical post. Frankly I do not think I would > take issue with most points you make. I simply think my personal experience > is different. I am not a member of any other flying organisation so I > cannot compare. > > > > That’s fine, we all come from different backgrounds, and different things > are important to all of us. That’s one of the points I was making. > > For those of us for whom “the freedom of flight” is important in the > manner I described, GFA has literally nothing to offer us - indeed, its > very existence is an impediment (the CASA GPL would likely be very > different if GFA had not been involved in it) > > The fact is that I do not see that GFA impedes what I want to do, nor what > a majority of glider pilots I personally know (a limited sample) do. Does a > level 2 instructor impedes my flying, not in the least, do I feel in any > way "supervised"? Not in the least. When it is my turn to run the day, do I > interfere with any of the solo pilots? No. > > > It’s not a question of interference, that isn’t the point. > > You cannot take responsibility for rigging a glider, because GFA seems to > be saying that its trained certificate holders lack the alacrity to perform > that task without someone else looking over their shoulder and > countersigning. > > When you are running a day, you are on an undefined, open-ended legal > liability hook for any accidents or injuries they suffer. Could you have > prevented an actionable event by preventing a launch? Even if you > couldn’t, could an insurance company’s lawyer paint a picture that says you > could? You might not even know those other pilots, but you’ve “taken > charge” of their operation. Do you know what that means? > > And anyone who isn’t an instructor *should* feel “in any way supervised” > because that’s what the instructor’s actual job is. Everyone is under > supervision. All the time. > > I don’t know how to describe how oppressive that is for the group of > pilots for whom “freedom of flight” is important; how much the knowledge > that you can never be so well trained or well skilled that you can be > trusted to command your own aircraft can suck the enjoyment out of the > sport — When that’s precisely the expectation held by pilots in literally > every other aviation discipline I’ve ever come into contact with. > > I can remember 14 years ago, one of the very first aus-soaring messages I > ever read was Mike Borgelt making the entirely reasonable observation that > it is impossible for a L2 Independent Operator to legally fly his own > self-launching glider out of his own private airfield, because the act of > rigging it requires another GFA member to be physically present to > countersign the maintenance release. > > 14 years later, *nothing has changed.* > > How is that possible? That renders the entire L2 Independent Operator > rating worthless. How pathetic is it that so much time can pass without > such an obvious regulatory defect being closed? > > So the only time I feel as a second-class aviator is when i hook into a 6 > kt thermal and I know that Alan Barnes would be doing 8 :). > > > That’s just Imposter Syndrome. Alan Barnes knows Ingo would be doing 12. > :) > > - mark > > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring >
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