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Thanks Eyrie, I didn't know that. So are there alternative glider groups to the GFA in a position to have similar standards oversight? I can see why the nomination of a particular group as the representative one would make sense from a standards and communication point of view, but if there's infighting and power struggles between groups it's obviously not good from the user point of view.
What standards oversight is required when Aus glider certificates are not ICAO recognised and CASA requires an instructor with no ICAO recognised qualifications to sign out a ICAO recognised PPL holder with 2500 hour glider time and 1000 hours PPL time to fly an ICAO recognised registered aircraft?
The accident record of GFA is nothing to be proud of (witness coroners comments about glider admin following Goulburn crash) so standards is hard to argue. Communication WTF? The least safe place to be under instruction in an aircraft is a glider.
There is absolutely no need for an organisation, just a commercially based system of delegations like that which has worked for years in GA