On 10/16/2012 8:02 PM, 2G wrote:


I submitted this comment:

I am a glider pilot with 3,600 hr of PIC time. I am also a licensed
power pilot (SEL). I am also a motorglider pilot with 2000 hr of PIC
time. While I do not fly turbine powered aircraft, either airplanes
or gliders, I regard the annual recertification requirement for
turbine powered gliders to be unnecessarily onerous. This is
obviously intended for very light jets, not gliders. While I value
the training I received to fly powered airplanes, this training bore
very little similarities to the issues involved in flying
motorgliders. I shudder to think of the burden that would be placed
on me if I had to do a similar recertification EVERY YEAR to fly my
motorglider! This would not add to my safety, but may make me stop
flying altogether! Fix this unintentional regulatory burden.

I submitted something similar, modeled after Tom's:

I am a glider pilot with 6500 hr of PIC time in powered and unpowered
gliders. I do not currently fly turbine powered gliders, but I plan to
do so in a year or two.

The annual recertification requirement for turbine powered gliders,
which are simpler to operate than most piston powered self-launching
gliders, will only add expense and not safety; in fact, by discouraging
pilots from using the simpler turbojet powered designs, safety may
actually be reduced.

This is requirement, apparently intended for very light jets, makes
sense for them, but not for gliders, which use the engine briefly, and
otherwise fly like most gliders.

Please change the rule to apply to "airplanes" and not "aircraft", so
that gliders are no longer included.


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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to
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