Hnmmmmm! Bet that will draw blank looks!! Michael
> On 1 Sep 2014, at 3:58 pm, Matthew Scutter <yellowplant...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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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