Mark said:
"....it was dead easy to get my Aussie PPL recognized by the USA FAA and
have a USA PPL issued at no cost and no flight test based on my Aussie
qualifications."
Was it really that easy?
Compare with CASA.
http://casa.gov.au/scripts/nc.dll?WCMS:STANDARD::pc=PC_90024#validation
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Borgelt" <mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com>
To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia."
<aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net>
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Glider pilot licence
At 07:53 PM 10/11/2009, you wrote:
Could not agree more with below, it's a increasingly international world,
many pilots want to experience flying overseas, it was dead easy to get my
Aussie PPL recognized by the USA FAA and have a USA PPL issued at no cost
and no flight test based on my Aussie qualifications. When I tried the
same
with my glider ratings, forget it they said as they don't recognize them.
Why is there such resistance by the GFA to having an internationally
recognized glider licence (ICAO) as many other countries do including the
USA? My preference would be to have CASA administer Glider licences the
same
as occurs in the USA and many other countries and as far as I can see with
no more hassle or cost then through the GFA system, probably less in fact.
Might even raise the standard of flying and also make some sense to
potential glider pilots who at the moment have trouble understanding how
it
all is supposed to work.
Regards
Mark
Mark,
The resistance by the GFA is based on mindless adherence to the historical
order of things.
If we had a CASA licence good for use overseas it would have to be good
for use in Australia. Imagine a CASA PPL(G) stamped NOT FOR USE IN
AUSTRALIA. I'm sure that would impress the hell out of another ICAO
contracting state who would quite reasonably say "if you won't honour it
in your own country why should we?"
We are only having this thread because back in 2002/3 Bob Hall and Henk
Meertens went to the then Minister, John Anderson and killed the CASA
proposed Recreational Private Pilot Licence for gliding. Aided and abetted
by Paul Middleton of the RAAus who did the same for ultralights. Thanks
guys. It was probably the single greatest act of bastardry in the history
of sport aviation in Australia. You're champions at it.
The proposed RPPL would have had ratings which could be added to and if
you had a PPL or higher those ratings would have carried over. The RPPL
wasn't an ICAO licence but the CASA PPL is and to fly O/S you would have
had to upgrade to the PPl although in the case of the US you could
probably argue that the medical standard for the RPPL(G) was the same as
for the US PPL(G) although note the US doesn't have licences, they have
pilot certificates.
Now, I have it on good authority that the RPPL proposal is still on the
table. If the GFA really wants to help Australian pilots fly O/S and isn't
just blowing smoke, they could go to CASA, withdraw their objection and
ask CASA to fast track the process. I really don't care what the dimwits
in the RAAus do but as you say Mark, a CASA licence might actually improve
the standard there too.
Of course once you have a CASA PPL(G) then you wouldn't be required to be
a member of GFA and a club (just as when you have a PPL you don't have to
join AOPA or an aero club although you may choose to do so if you want to)
and we couldn't have that could we? Heavens the parasites running the GFA
might have to justify their existence by actually selling their services
to the "members" on the open market instead of, fascist like, using the
power of the state to enforce "membership" in a private company.
Mike
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