At 02:10 PM 27/08/04 +1000, you wrote:
> Among other comments, Boyd Munro stated: - require
>that passengers It quite escapes me why the GFA should require
>passengers to use oxygen above 10,000' in Australia (unless the person who
>wrote the rule was a supplier of oxygen). The GFA Ops regs explain why
>such matters as oxygen requirements are included, and I quote “These
>Regulations are produced so that sailplane pilots may have available in one
>document the procedures and instructions necessary to ensure that
>sailplanes to which Civil Aviation Orders 95.4 and 95.4.1 apply are
>operated in accordance with the exemptions granted by those Orders and with
>the Civil Aviation Regulations and Orders from which they are not
>exempted.” Of course this does not explain the differing oxygen
>requirements for passengers but the GFA is able to set its own standards
>within the confines of the law. Where inconsistencies exist (as
>opposed to additional requirements set by the GFA), the Civil Aviation Regs
>must have precedence.
You noticed the inconsistency in that I hope?
Mike
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