As I understand it that process might have been based on goodwill or
some other cooperation regime because when the BGA license was first
introduced it was not ICAO compliant as i understand it. And probably
it was only to fly German registered sailplanes IN Germany.
I would say that if it was not
Soon after I had withdrawn from the team for Hungary (because I could not
present the LBA with an ICAO compliant licence, which I needed to do if I was
to fly a German registered EB-28 in Hungary) I received a charming email from
the Licencing Department of the CAA confirming that my BGA
This is my contribution to more confusion about EASA and ICAO licenses (don't
read if you are after information about a competition license):
I started with aviation with Ultra Lights in Germany, learned soaring in
Australia tried to convert my (at that time) non-existing Australian license to
Hi Rob,
I too have suitable sight, as long as I am wearing corrective lens!
Seriously, as Laurie points out what Ben Quinn wants is a donation from you.
This will give you voting rights too - the bigger the donation the more
votes you get. [The very essence of the Capitalist System in a
www.bgashop.co.uk/index.php?_a=viewProdproductId=197
Ron S
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Hi Gary,
I too looked at the BGA before I bought and as I recall the shipping
was the fly in the ointment,so to speak, again very pricey.
Dennis
On 25/08/14 8:55 PM, Gary Stevenson wrote:
Hi Ron,
Good general information here. Thanks.
Re BGA pricing: Many combinations are obviously available,
I am still to be convinced of the value,of .Confor foam as a crash protective
material. It is a bit more dense than cushion foam, but not that much. The
spring back of cushion foam seems irrelevant to me. The issue Is deceleration
during impact.
Most gilders have about 50mm gap between the
Read the research done by Dr Tony Segal in the UK amongst others. He test
crashed real glider cockpits with dummy pilots fitted with accelerometers. The
effects were impressive.
The value isn't in the thickness or density, but in it's behaviour AFTER impact.
Comfor (and similar) deform
This from the UK rec soaring chat line.
More info
Just shows me again that those who have been able to fly an EU
registered glider in the EU on their BGA GPL have just gotten away
with it If the insurance companies were up on this I wonder what
would happen when Aus guys crash EU registered
There were a few colour vision posts here a few weeks ago. Here's an
interesting article about how the colour deficient see the world:
http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/2013/12/color-blindness-what-does-it-look-like/
My immediate thought it that a hi vis colour scheme may be the
exact
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