On Jan 31, 2017, at 7:01 PM, steph...@internode.on.net wrote: > > Bugger, that link didn't work. > > here's a cut and paste: > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > Mark Newton > <https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=aus-soar...@lists.internode.on.net&q=from:%22Mark+Newton%22> > Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:41:54 -0700 > <https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=aus-soar...@lists.internode.on.net&q=date:20020618> Yep: 15 years ago.
Still making the same points now, never addressed, nothing’s changed. The culture of management/control I mentioned in that email 15 years ago is the actual reason I’m not a GFA member now. I had an opportunity to buy a glider. I bought a GA aircraft instead, and haven’t looked back. I feel a bit sorry for the members who don’t have CASA licenses, who have no direct experience of taking responsibility for their own operational decision-making, and therefore have literally no idea why it’s so offensive for GFA to carry on like a parent of a bunch of rowdy children. But that’s what they do. I can’t find anyone in GFA who agrees that a training system which doesn’t turn everyone into L2 Independent Operators, like every other aviation training system in Australia, is an intrinsic failure. The end-point of GFA’s training syllabus is a pilot who is cosseted and babied by instructor panels, never able to take responsibility for themselves, where every cross-country flight is a navex under an Instructor’s supervision just like a pre-license student pilot everywhere else. And you people think that’s normal. I used to be pretty active: Instructor, CFI, club committee member. I wrote software for my club, did lots of airworthiness work, advocated for gliding, convinced a lot of initiates to join up. I’m sure gliding could do with lots of enthusiastic volunteers. I’m not one anymore, due to the consequences of choices the GFA has made. And is still making, a decade and a half later. - mark
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