Regards the UK medical for the LAPL, are you sure you can not do it here? I can do my UK ATPL medical here with a UK approved Australian DAME? Otherwise the contributor who said it was all a crock of shit scored a bullseye. RS
> On 1 Sep 2014, at 17:52, Christopher McDonnelll <wommamuku...@bigpond.com> > wrote: > > 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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