Re: [Aus-soaring] Are we all properly trained?

2010-08-15 Thread Texler, Michael
>Are you seriously reading comprehension challenged? I certainly hope not...! ;-) I'll give another go, eh? And, I will not get personal Play the ball not the person. >So you should have asked him why they were still happy to have you fly in Australia as he'd just indicated he couldn't be s

Re: [Aus-soaring] Are we all properly trained?

2010-08-15 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 12:00 PM 16/08/2010, you wrote: Oh, dear, looks like we're all going to hell in a handbasket... >as he'd just indicated he couldn't be sure you were properly trained. Which of course applies to ALL Australian glider pilots and instructors. Beware a blanket statement, aren't there some glider

Re: [Aus-soaring] pilot license

2010-08-15 Thread Catherine Conway
Glad I got a US one in the early 90's. I've used it in Europe as well as the US Cath Sent from my iPhone On 16/08/2010, at 12:42 PM, "Christopher Mc Donnell" wrote: > If you need an ICAO recognised glider licence you can take one of the cheap > flights to NZ, have a bit of a holiday and get

[Aus-soaring] SA winter lecture

2010-08-15 Thread Future Aviation
Hi all This is just a quick reminder of Tuesday night's winter lecture with the following topics and speakers: a) Outlandings (Speaker to be confirmed) b) RASP (Axel Wallis) As usual we meet at 7:30 pm in the Engineering North building of Adelaide University. (Chemical engineering, first floor,

Re: [Aus-soaring] pilot license

2010-08-15 Thread Christopher Mc Donnell
If you need an ICAO recognised glider licence you can take one of the cheap flights to NZ, have a bit of a holiday and get one of their CAA ones while there. Just do your homework and break the back of the paperwork before you go. This would seem to be the cheapest way for Australians. Pity we a

Re: [Aus-soaring] Are we all properly trained?

2010-08-15 Thread Terry Neumann
Texler, Michael wrote: I think I would more worried about the people they have driving on the roads...! ;-) A valid point Michael. I have a current and valid driver's licence endorsed for three categories of motor vehicle. I hereby declare that I had no _formal_ training whatsoever for th

[Aus-soaring] Are we all properly trained?

2010-08-15 Thread Texler, Michael
Oh, dear, looks like we're all going to hell in a handbasket... >as he'd just indicated he couldn't be sure you were properly trained. Which of course applies to ALL Australian glider pilots and instructors. Beware a blanket statement, aren't there some glider pilots and instructors out there who

Re: [Aus-soaring] Grounded Blanik L13's

2010-08-15 Thread Kenneth Jason Caldwell
On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 09:24 +0930, Kym Z wrote: > Hi all, > As you'd all know, Blaniks (unless they have the Llewelyn mod, and > unless they comply with the limited -but badly worded criteria from the > factory on the AD) are currently grounded... > Are we the only club still using a Blanik as ou

[Aus-soaring] Grounded Blanik L13's

2010-08-15 Thread Kym Z
Hi all, As you'd all know, Blaniks (unless they have the Llewelyn mod, and unless they comply with the limited -but badly worded criteria from the factory on the AD) are currently grounded... Are we the only club still using a Blanik as our only trainer? It's pretty hard to operate without a

Re: [Aus-soaring] GFA Safety Seminar - VSA Region - last opportunity

2010-08-15 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 02:14 AM 15/08/2010, you wrote: While conducting an e-mail war with CASA re a licence/letter of qualification to replace SLMG on my ATPL [for the World Comps] the CASA man implied that although he was satisfied that the GPC syllabus satisfied the ICAO licence requirements he could not be ce

Re: [Aus-soaring] judgement

2010-08-15 Thread Mike Borgelt
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Re: [Aus-soaring] judgement

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