If you fly over seas you need a medical. If you have no desire to fly overseas, don't get a medical.
I think there may be instances of GA pilots, can't pass their medical but the drivers licence bench mark allows them to fly/instruct. Michael > On 1 Sep 2014, at 3:27 pm, Matt Gage <m...@knightschallenge.com> 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
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