JR,
My point exactly, though I don't think you intended it :).
Why does gliding treat instructors as adults and everyone else like
potentially irresponsible children?
It's not that way in any other form of aviation. The whole point of
being an independent operator is so you can operate independently - my
question was only to ask, what sort of structure would better suit those
people. None of this suggests that we don't need a BFR (come to think
of it, why isn't it "B" in gliding?) or a medical, or a maintenance
release - only to observe that in every other form of aviation it is the
responsibility of the independent operator themselves to ensure
compliance.
Of course, the owner of a glider may impose whatever additional
requirements they wish - again this happens routinely in all forms of
aviation.
This is not an attack on instructors by the way. They are in almost
every case sensible and pragmatic people who do a terrific job.
Cheers
Tim
JR wrote:
Hi Tim,
who would know when you had your annual flight reveiw, or who would
know how current you were, this could get pretty nasty, thats why we
have CFI's, to make sure we all know how to recover from incipient
spins, and fly proper circuits.
regards
JR
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