Judy Ruprecht wrote in message ...
Go to SSA.org and click on GLIDER EXEMPTION

Judy

An EXEMPTION. Magnificent. And breathtakingly speedy, too.

USA Glider Instructors and Glider Flight Schools:
You should realize what a huge reversal this is in the federal
bureacracy's stance, regarding 'posturing for protecting.'

Many US pilots logged in and provided comments from blunt to
thoughtful about the inadequacy of planning in the first published
document. Those comments provided support and leverage for the
negotiations which SSA carried out on your behalf. In browsing the
docket's comments, I personally recognized perhaps half the posts as
glider pilots. Thank you to those folks who posted, for all soaring
pilots. I know several resident alien pilots who were fearful to
post, for future data tracking possibilities.

Other CFI organizations, other aircraft category flight schools
commented, but the airplane folks will still have a hard row to hoe to
get back to a normal method of continuing business. Thanks, TSA, for
hearing us.

Realize also, that there was not some benevolent independent effort
that created this result. It was SSA. I wish that all folks that log
US glider flight instruction in the next calendar year,and don't have
to provide fingerprints, documents, or more money to the federal
monster, choose to send at least half that value to the SSA as a thank
you.

Coming to the US for a glider flying holiday as a non-citizen?
You benefited also.

How to reward the organization that worked on your behalf?
Send your check to SSA, PO Box 2100, Hobbs, NM 88241-9977
Is this a shameless plea? Yes. Nobody asked me to post this.

Call it dues ($64). Call it a donation for Advocacy. Call it a
donation for the General Fund. But don't just shrug it off. Scribble
TSA on the note line.

Without SSA, this Exemption wouldn't have happened. Thanks, Judy,
Steve, Dennis, et all, and all those who commented to the docket.
Democracy worked this week in one small corner of the world.

Cindy Brickner