At 10:36 AM 13/11/2009, you wrote:
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?
Yes it is that easy. Or used to be. I have a US PPL (G) which I got
in 1983 at Reno when the FAA used to recognise Australian gliding
qualifications.
In 1996 after I got a PPL I walked into the San Diego office of the
FAA at Montgomery Field, showed them the licence they had issued,
showed them my Australian PPL and they upgraded the US licence to
single engine day VFR on the spot. The guy made me promise to get a
through cehckout from whoever was going to let me fly their aircraft.
Mike
Compare with CASA.
http://casa.gov.au/scripts/nc.dll?WCMS:STANDARD::pc=PC_90024#validation
Chris
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Borgelt"
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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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