Last summer I completed my private glider rating as an add-on to my private balloon rating. I went to Arizona and did it as part of my vacation. It took me 8 days. I followed up when I got home to TX and received my self-launch endorsement in one day. I now fly with a glider club in Briggs, TX.
I enjoyed adding this rating and I documented my story. It will appear in the May 2008 issue of Sport Aviation published by the EAA. It is a good issue as it has several other glider articles featured. Best, John On 4/22/08, Noel Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can use that approach to fly w/o a medical.....you need to have a > "Glider" rating on your certificate and at the time (15 years ago) > there was no self-launch caveat.......The glider I flew was an > experimental Moni motor-glider with a 26 hp 2 cycle engine. The other > issues was how it was defined as a glider....the FAA had some obscure > arcane way of determining whether it was a glider or not...ie. L/D > radio, power loading, etc, which prevented you from taking any > homebuilt and calling it a "glider". > > Regards; > > Noel Anderson > > >
