Doug Haluza wrote:
In some FAA regions there are no glider DEs or qualified FAA
examiners. This has been a long standing problem in the Farmingdale,
NY FSDO. In this case, the Sport Pilot can be a logical goal the pilot
can attain, before building additional time for the private, and
looking for a place to go for the test.

We never get to 10,000 feet here on the East coast, and have plenty of
Schweizers that meet the LSA requirements. So it can be well worth it.

I read in the USA Soaring magazine yesterday about a club wanting to get
more activity out of their low performance Ka-7 and ASK-13 gliders. Hmmm...
I suspect they will be fine candidates for SP.

I've also had some recent fine discussions with the FSDO at Fresno,
and it looks like SP glider transitions will be a fine and simple test case
for SP. Because the PP and Commercial and CFIG PTS are already so similar to
what one would expect from the SP practical tests, there seems to be little
work to be done to come up with the SP standards.

Of any area of aviation that can benefit from SP, I think glider transitions
is the most promising...


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Mark Boyd
Avenal, California, USA