That was my interpretation too, and I'm still not clear on why we made all the foreign pilots attending the WGC in benalla join the GFA to operate their foreign registered aircraft with their foreign licences. I appreciate the process was streamlined but I don't see the legislative requirement anyway. The poms capitalized on this and are now saying - come fly the UK EGC, we won't even make you join the BGA š
On 7 Feb 2017 12:00 PM, "James McDowall" <james.mcdowal...@gmail.com> wrote: > My reading of Mosp 2 (the GFA operations manual) is that membership of the > GFA is only mandated for foreign pilots and Class A airspace operations. > However, the GFA Operational Regulations (agreed between CASA and the GFA > as per CAO 95.4) say: > "3.1.1. An aircraft to which these Regulations apply must not be operated > except by an individual who is a member of the GFA (CAO 95.4)." which > would seem to run counter to the intent of CASR 61.1515 for why not say > in the regulation "must be a member of the GFA". > This question is did CASA exceed its authority to include this in the GFA > Operational Regulations when CAO 95.4 clearly defines an alternative path > to glider opeartions? > BTW reading Part 61 it would seem that a private operator of glider > maintained by a LAME and holding a PPL can legally fly the glider provided > you do not need the benefit of the exemptions of CAO 95.4 which only seem > to exclude slope soaring. Remember RA-Aus issues glider towing endorsements. > > > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Mark Newton <new...@atdot.dotat.org> > wrote: > >> >> On 7 Feb 2017, at 9:23 AM, James McDowall <james.mcdowal...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Can anyone enlighten me as to which piece of legislation says a GPL has >> no validity in Australia? >> >> >> CASR 61.145 permits flight in a glider without a glider pilot license >> under stated conditions. >> >> CASR 61.1515 limits exercise of the privileges of a glider pilot license >> to activity āconducted in accordance with ā¦ the operations manual of a >> recreational aviation administration organisation that administers glider >> activitiesā¦ā >> >> The only such organization is the GFA. >> >> The operations manual of the GFA requires pilots to be GFA members and >> submit to the GFA instructional system, flying GFA-registered aircraft >> maintained under the GFA airworthiness system. >> >> If a pilot is a GFA member and has submitted to the GFA instructional >> system, flying a GFA-registered aircraft maintained under the GFA >> airworthiness system, they donāt actually need a glider pilot license in >> the first place. >> >> Thus the glider pilot license is useless in Australia. The credential >> that CASA recognizes as authority to fly a glider in Australia is the >> GFA-issued GPC, not the one on your Part 61 license. >> >> Hereās Simon Hackettās account of what it takes to get one, by the way: >> https://simonhackett.com/2015/04/17/australian-to-usa-glider >> -pilot-license/ >> >> An Australian āGLIDER PILOT LICENSEā (GPL) issued by CASA (the Australian >> version of the FAA) is *not a license to fly gliders in Australia*. >> >> Instead, the GPL is it seems, merely an administrative construct ... that >> joins the dots between an international licensing system (that wants to see >> an ICAO compliant thing called a *license)* and the Australian glider >> flying environment administered by the GFA >> >> >> - mark >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Aus-soaring mailing list >> Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au >> http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > >
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