I would be interested to learn if I can fly an Australian registered glider overseas with an Australian Glider Pilot's licence... On 1 Sep 2014 16:17, "Mike Borgelt" <mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com> wrote:
> Matt, > > The USA Private Pilot Certificate(Glider) has a self certification medical > same as in Australia. Powered aircraft requires a Class 3 medical in the > US. I've been unable to figure how that differs from the Australian Class 2 > medical. Most of the US glider pilots I've met have a power licence anyway > so presumably wouldn't have any trouble getting a licence overseas. > > I seem to remember posting here a while ago that, as all the regs were > being changed, the GFA should get onto the licence issue and back one with > the same medical requirement as the US before one with a more severe > medical was imposed. > > What a pity that the opportunity was wasted. > > Mike > > > > At 03:57 PM 1/09/2014, you wrote: > > Simon, > > just guessing, but I suspect that if this license was to be used in > Australia, it would require a class 2 medical. I suspect there is a fear > that having such a license valid in Australia would result in it becoming > compulsory and instantly grounding up to 1/2 our pilots. If there is any > reasonable possibility of that, then the current situation makes a lot of > sense. > > Matt > > > > > > On 1 Sep 2014, at 15:08 , Simon Hackett <si...@base64.com.au> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > *Borgelt Instruments* - > *design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since 1978 * > www.borgeltinstruments.com > tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784 > mob: 042835 5784 : int+61-42835 5784 > P O Box 4607, Toowoomba East, QLD 4350, Australia > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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