And "......obtain overseas qualifications......" Did you mean have an Australian Licence recognised overseas unreservedly? Otherwise it is not worth much.
Chris Sent from my iPad > On 1 Sep 2014, at 8:44 pm, "Christopher Thorpe" <ctho...@bigpond.com> wrote: > > Chris, GFA wanted a way to make it easy for its members to get their > Australian qualifications recognised overseas. It has achieved this with the > assistance of CASA. > > > > From: aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net > [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net] On Behalf Of Christopher > McDonnelll > Sent: Monday, 1 September 2014 7:52 PM > To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. > Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Competition licenses - the emperor has no clothes > > Yes, Christopher. > What is the agenda/reasoning? GFA's or CASA's. > > Chris > > Sent from my iPad > > On 1 Sep 2014, at 7:02 pm, Mike Borgelt <mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com> > wrote: > > Very nice, now why don't you answer Simon's question? > > Mike > > > > > At 06:40 PM 1/09/2014, you wrote: > > There is no conspiracy here but I admit it is a bit Pythonish! > > To fly gliders in Australia one only needs to comply with CAO 95.4. For GFA > members, there is no requirement to hold a licence in order to fly gliders. > You don't even need a GPC to fly gliders unless you want to exercise the > privileges allowed to GPC holders. > > For non GFA-member pilots, all they need to do is apply to CASA as per CAO > 95.4, paragraph 5.1(a)(ii). > > The CASA Glider pilot licence introduced by Part 61 is solely designed to > facilitate the recognition of Australian glider pilots wishing to have their > GFA GPC qualification recognised overseas. > > The GFA GPC is the only certificate issued by GFA that is recognised by CASA > as compliant with ICAO Annex 1 and is the minimum requirement to get a CASA > GPL. Currently most National Aviation Administration Authorities (NAAAs) > only recognise licences issued by the NAAA of ICAO member states. > > The new CASA GPL is expected to make it easier for Australian pilots to > obtain overseas qualifications and overcome past difficulties experienced by > many of our pilots. > > Regards > > Christopher Thorpe > Executive Manager, Operations | Gliding Federation of Australia (ABN 82 433 > 264 489) | Level 1, 34 Somerton Road | Somerton | Victoria 3062 > M: +61 4 1447 6151 | E: e...@glidingaustralia.org | w: > www.glidingaustralia.org > > This email transmission may contain confidential or privileged information > that is intended only for the individual or entity named in the email > address. If you are not the intended recipient, please be aware that any > disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance upon the contents of this > email is strictly prohibited. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net > [ mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net] On Behalf Of Simon > Hackett > Sent: Monday, 1 September 2014 3:09 PM > To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. > Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Competition licenses - the emperor has no clothes > > 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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