Differences in Italian vs US soaring instruction?

Michael wrote:

We have the Practical Test Standards and the Soaring Flight Manual.
Due to the nature of our training, ALL US-trained pilots are familiar
with both. The former describes the checkride maneuvers and
performance standards; the latter normal operating practices. Thus we
all have the same signals, we all turn the same direction on release,
etc...

This makes me think: Why not have him read those two books? Just an idea...

Stefan

Stefan "stefan"@mus. INVALID .ch wrote
This makes me think: Why not have him read those two books? Just an idea...

Of course I did. In the US, it is almost unthinkable to send a
student to a glider checkride who had not seen these books. The fact
remains that the Soaring Flight Manual mostly contains information
that is already familiar to him. When one must read a book containing
mostly familiar information, it is only human to move quickly - and
maybe miss something.

Michael

The only thing you can be absolutely certain he DOESN'T know is
the US CFR's.
Give him a FAR/AIM. Airspace is also a bit hard to figure for
new pilots. Is G at 1500 or 1200 where not marked in the US?
What do the "fences" mean separating G from E airspace in
mountainous terrain?

http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~mjboyd/cfi/glider/gliderfars

lists the glider specific CFR's/FAR's (whatever you want to call
them, they're still from "the Man"). There are of course a
lot of more general regs, but I put that together for
transitioning US power pilots.


Mark

P.S. I personally would love to go soaring in the U.K., but
I can't seem to quite get the language. I do know that they
really like Bond movies (AKA Roger Moore) and don't like bugs.
I picked at least this up.

But when I mention I'm getting a group of friends to come
over for a good Rogering and would they like to come, or that
there's a lot of buggery in my garage, I get funny
looks from my English co-workers. Is there some nuance
I'm missing?

And "bloody good chips"? They looked like freedom fries to
me, and didn't even have any ketchup. I'm baffled...

Apparently one shouldn't pat a gal on the fanny (extremely rude),
and there's some famous bus driver named "Lorry" and it
isn't an elevator but a lift. Can you imagine? If I said
I was "getting a lift from my friend" it wouldn't make
sense and an English chap (with burned lips?) would suggest
I take a "Lorry."

In the U.K., is Chapstick only for guys? Well, at least they're
smart enough to use the metric system so it makes their
gliders go faster...

Mark James Boyd wrote:
The only thing you can be absolutely certain he DOESN'T know is
the US CFR's.

Not at all. If you read the original post that started this discussion,
you'll see that the Italian student already has a US comm/CFI power rating.

Tony V.

P.S You're a company called "Powergen" and you have an Italian
subsidiary and you don't know English. What would you call the web site?
How about http://www.powergenitalia, of course. This is a legit web site
- not a joke.

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Tony Verhulst wrote:

P.S You're a company called "Powergen" and you have an Italian
subsidiary and you don't know English. What would you call the web site?
How about http://www.powergenitalia, of course. This is a legit web site
- not a joke.

Legitimate company and website, but totally unrelated to the English
company of the same name.

-- Bruce