Simon,
Excellent question.
I suspect you shouldn't hold your breath waiting for a sensible
answer from the likes of Peter Thorpe, Drew McKinnie or Anita Taylor.
Lets see if TPTB can be bothered giving you an answer in public.
Is your US pilot certificate a real one or issued on the basis of
your Australian qualification?
Mike
At 03:08 PM 1/09/2014, you wrote:
Just want to call out one other thing from the thread that I have
just had confirmed separately.
The Australian CASA Glider Pilot License doesn't allow a pilot to
fly a Glider in Australia.
SRSLY?
Its 2014. Why can't we live in a place where the GFA issues (or
authorises) Glider Pilot Licenses for Australian glider pilots to
fly Australian Gliders with (including ... in Australia)?
I'm not bothered about an underlying requirement to be a GFA member
in good standing (or to be separately authorised by CASA) if that
floats the GFA's boat.
Rather, I'm talking about the crazy notion that the outcome of doing
everything right in the GFA system isn't an outcome where one can be
a pilot licensed to fly a glider with a license to fly a glider
called a Glider Pilot License - and where such a thing now exists
but it doesn't actually work in the country of issue.
I actually *have* a US glider license of precisely that form (a US
pilots license with 'Glider' as an endorsement on it). I don't see
that cramping the style of glider pilots in the USA. Quite the
opposite, actually.
I'm not really interested in how we got precisely here.
I'm interested in what possible reason the GFA would have, today, to
*not* to support the notion of a Glider Pilot License as something
routinely issued to Australians to let them fly gliders in Australia
- and for that to be the thing that people get issued with routinely
(when, for instance, they achieve Silver C standard).
Is there actually a valid reason for this state of affairs (as
opposed to 'thats just not how we roll, son...') why this isn't the
case - or why it shouldn't become the case?
In other words, if I have a CASA issued Glider Pilot License, what,
precisely, makes it unable to be sufficient to be permitted to fly a
glider here (assuming one has a valid and current flight review)?
I apologise for not having (yet) dug up the shiny new 1st
September-onward regulations that govern the Glider Pilot License
(and as already noted, CASA haven't yet actually published the
application form on their web site either). But do those legally
engaged regulations actually say that you can't use a Glider Pilot
License to... fly a glider with?
Coming at this cold, honestly, this reads like a Monty Python script :)
Regards,
Simon
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