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Also consider looking to the airplane instructors in your area. They
would need to add the Commercial - Glider and then after 15 hours PIC
in gliders, add Glider to their CFI Certificate.

The National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI) publishes a list
of active CFI's at www.nafinet.org
Click on "Find An Instructor" then the state.

The listings include their CFI ratings such as Glider and their
telephone numbers. I looked and found a few glider CFI's in your
state.

Burt Compton, Master NAFI CFI, FAA DPE
Marfa, west Texas
www.flygliders.com


Burt, I understand the sentiment, but what we need is more Diamond Badge
pilots as instructors. Many, if not most, power instructors are so steeped
in power flying attitudes that it is hard for them to teach anything beyond
the basics in gliders. We need glider pilots as instructors who may also be
power pilots, not the other way around.

I think there are plenty of good glider instructors and glider pilots who
could easily become instructors if they wished. The problem is what Mark
Lennox stated in his post. Club managements need to stop treating
instructors as hired help or worse, political rivals.

This is the reason that I suggested on this forum last year that club
by-laws be changed to require that all officers and board members be current
glider pilots who would be less likely to feel politically threatened by a
knowledgeable flight instructor.

Bill Daniels