RAA new Tech Manager

[Gnarly Gnu]

BTW anyone read Nev White's letter in the current issue of Sport Pilot? Bet that's the last Natfly he attends.

Couldn't figure out why he wasn't upset about the 95.10 crowd not turning up, seems to blame RA-Aus for not begging them enough or something? There may well be some background I am not aware of but I found the letter to be confusing.

 

 

[Bill Hamilton]

(a) Is the RPL going to come any sooner than a decade or so?(b) I looked at it, but felt, as long as you were medically fit, the PPL wasn't really all that much of a hurdle, and then for a start you can travel with three other people.

---- as long as you were medically fit----- But isn't that the whole point, particularly as current CASA interpretations of the Class 2 (PVT) medical standard seem to become narrower, and the various tests demanded increase in number and expense. Sadly, there are quite a few of my friends who pay annually for tests, the total of which can exceed AUD$1000.00 plus DAME fee of between $150 and $250, to satisfy the CASA requirements ( and which puts the CASA medical fee in the shade). With the proposed medical standard for the RPL, or for RAOz, these onerous tests would not be needed per the National Driver's Licence standard.

 

Last time I noticed, it was SAAA pushing for "self-administration" of the RPL, not RAOz. When for the RPL?? It was supposed to be about now.

 

Cheers,