Question for glider pilots

[Tomaski]

Currently working on my glider add-on. Some time back there used to be a requirement for certain flights to have at least on 360 degree turn to qualify toward a particular activity, mainly solo flights and Flight Reviews. While I can still find some old references to it on some glider club web sites, the requirement apparently is no longer in the FAR's. Does anyone know when this changed?

Thank in advance!

[RatherBeFlying]

You might want to look at the FAA or SSA websites to see if that requirement persists. I do remember it on my Canadian license application form some decades ago.

[India Four Two]

Tomaski,

Details here: https://www.faa.gov/training_testing/testing/test_standards/media/FAA-S-8081-22.pdf

[Olympia463]

The British Gliding Association qualifications when you first went solo in a glider were as follows:

A certificate: One flight in a straight line with a landing. Never used in my time BTW.

B certificate: Three solo flights each consisting of a circuit with 360 deg turns in both directions followed by a normal landing.

C certificate: A soaring flight of at least 5 minutes above the height of the lowest point followed by a normal landing, plus a written paper on Air Law.
There was badge for these tasks, and your log book was endorsed.

Was that what you were looking for?

[rudestuff]

The British Gliding Association qualifications when you first went solo in a glider were as follows:

A certificate: One flight in a straight line with a landing. Never used in my time BTW.

B certificate: Three solo flights each consisting of a circuit with 360 deg turns in both directions followed by a normal landing.

C certificate: A soaring flight of at least 5 minutes above the height of the lowest point followed by a normal landing, plus a written paper on Air Law.
There was badge for these tasks, and your log book was endorsed.

Was that what you were looking for?

The OP is talking about an FAA certificate