Windrusher sed...
Both the old Upper Heyford Mandatory Radio Area and the new rules about corners of the Brize Norton zone let glider pilots call without holding an R/T licence. If someone in authority had the enthusiasm, that idea could in principle be extended to all glider calls from, say, class G airspace – which ought to limit it to advisory calls, special calls as for Brize, MATZ crossings, and DF requests from the bewildered.
Gengis: that could also include ATZs.
I comment...
Could somebody explain to me exactly why a glider pilot should be uniquely exempt from the requirement to take a test proving they know how to use a Radio?
Surely either we should make everybody take a license test (for goodness sake, it's no expensive) or eliminate the thing and adapt to the consequences.
G