Mike I certainly hope they do not restrict the GFA AEF system. It is expensive enough now.
You would be more familiar than I am as to the number of incidents GFA has had under the above system Rob Moore On 09/11/2011, at 10:06 AM, Mike Cleaver <wom...@netspeed.com.au> wrote: > When it was first mooted ten years or so ago, the NZ Part 115 rule > potentially would have allowed customers to purchase a ride in a net slung > under a helicopter, among other weird ideas. They have toned it down a lot > and basically applied it to selling a sport aviation experience to people off > the street who are not capable of giving the "informed consent" that is an > inherent part in participating in an aviation sport. > > Australia has had CAO 95.4.1 for glider charter flights for over 15 years, > though nowadays most clubs use the air experience provisions to introduce > people to gliding. > > And it is over 25 years since Australia followed the UK and a lot of European > countries with normalised rules for passenger rides in hot air balloons, with > proper rules for commercial pilot licences and certified operators. We would > not call these balloon flights "high risk" as they are properly regulated - > unlike NZ until now. However, there are still some countries and some balloon > operators that do not apply safe operating rules, and they are the ones where > accidents have happened and passengers killed by totally avoidable > occurrences that have been improperly managed. > > From the latest information available, it seems my former employer has > started to move forward with our proposed new rules, which will be coming > from a quite different direction from our Pacific neighbours. > > Wombat > > At 10:02 9/11/2011, you wrote: >> Maybe it is all about Australia NZ rivalry, Australia is first with such >> widely based the carbon tax, so NZ ups the ante with being first with this >> regulation, and proud of it obviously, given this “We are to my knowledge is >> the only regulator in the world to introduce an adventure aviation rule." >> >> >> >> Cheers >> >> Paul >> >> >> On 9 November 2011 08:38, Mike Borgelt >> <<mailto:mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com>mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com> >> wrote: >> At 06:28 PM 8/11/2011, you wrote: >>> At 05:41 PM 8/11/2011, you wrote: >>>> <http://www.scene.co.nz/new-caa-rules-for-air-thrills-firms/293895a1.page>http://www.scene.co.nz/new-caa-rules-for-air-thrills-firms/293895a1.page >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> >>> "The seminar was held to explain how to complete the reams of paperwork >>> needed to comply with CAA rule part 115 – Adventure Aviation – >>> Certification and Operations. >>> >>> The CAA anticipates it will issue about 50 certificates, costing about >>> $7,600 each, within the first year." >>> >>> Wonderful, not how to operate safely but how to fill in the extensive >>> paperwork and be charged for it. If the Mafia did this it would be called a >>> protection racket. >>> Eventually the parasite class will find that the corpse of the productive >>> class doesn't have any more blood in it. >>> >>> Mike >> >> What's really funny though is that this is the country that invented >> commercial bungee jumping! >> >> Mike >> >> Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978 >> phone Int'l <tel:%2B%2061%20746%20355784>+ 61 746 355784 >> fax Int'l <tel:%2B%2061%20746%20358796>+ 61 746 358796 >> cellphone Int'l <tel:%2B%2061%20428%20355784>+ 61 428 355784 >> >> email: >> <mailto:mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com>mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com >> website: <http://www.borgeltinstruments.com/>www.borgeltinstruments.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Aus-soaring mailing list >> <mailto:Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net>Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net >> To check or change subscription details, visit: >> <http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring>http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soarin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Aus-soaring mailing list >> Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net >> To check or change subscription details, visit: >> http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
