Do it soon, EC regulation will make that civilization
a thing of the past before very long.

At 21:42 20 August 2004, Mark James Boyd wrote:
My God, what an incredibly civilized attitude!

I am going to HAVE to glide Europe at some point soon...

In article ,
Ian Johnston wrote:
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 19:02:01 UTC,
(Mark James
Boyd) wrote:

: What prevents someone from legally
: buying a glider and just hopping in it?

Nothing whatsoever. As long as you obey the appropriate
bits of teh
law (mainly the Air Navigation Order) then anyone can
fly any
unpowered aircraft in the UK. No licence, no certificate
of
airworthiness, no training, no nothing.

However, you do, as you pint out, have to get the thing
into the air
and since all gliding clubs in the UK are BGA-affiliated
and follow
BGA rules (as far as I know - there have been a couple
of independents
in the past) all pilots effectively have to comply
as well. That said,
I have never, ever been asked to show my C of A or
insurance
certificate at any gliding club I've visited. But then,
there is a lot
to be said for self-regulation, and I don't think we
kill
significantly more people through gliding than more
tightly regulated
countries do.

Ian

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