Did commercial glider pilots used to give instruction?

No rumor at all. It did change in 1966 because when I started in 1967 a CFIG
was required. A friend who started a year earlier and got his commercial
glider gave instruction that summer at a CAP camp. He later got a CFIG with
only a show of paperwork. I don't think he even had to take a written and
certainly not a flight test.

Am I the only old fart on this group that remembers this stuff?

Bob VanTreese

"Bob2nd" wrote in message
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Am I the only old fart on this group that remembers this stuff?

Nope. I learned in 1966 from several brand new CFI(G)s who'd just been
grandfathered in from CPL(G)s. The change was somewhere around 1964-6

Jim Kellett
Resident Curmudgeon

I think in South Africa they still have the Assistant Instructor's
rating, requiring 100 hrs or 300 launches P1 in gliders, & 50k or 5
hrs.

See http://www.sssa.org.za (The SSSA is the Air Recreation
Organisation (ARO) for Gliding in South Africa)

Kolie

Hi Kolie

The Air Experience Instructor rating is still there. No longer requires
a silver C, but there is now a written theory test. (It's buried in the
ARO if you want to read the details)

Bruce

Kolie Lombard wrote:
I think in South Africa they still have the Assistant Instructor's
rating, requiring 100 hrs or 300 launches P1 in gliders, & 50k or 5
hrs.

See http://www.sssa.org.za (The SSSA is the Air Recreation
Organisation (ARO) for Gliding in South Africa)

Kolie