wrote:

As to proposal by another to require training in low finishes, I'll be
curious if he is willing to teach this school and sign off pilots. I,
for one will not be doing this.

So how would that be any different from signing somebody off for aerotow? Or
any other maneuver? You sign them off on low-altitude rope breaks every day.

Somebody signs off those few who do glider acro shows, because they have
proven they can do it within the established bounds of safety. If somebody
from the FAA will sign off on glider acro near an airshow crowd, why can't a
well-qualified CFIG sign off for low fast finishes? Apparently some
bureaucrats know how to use the regulations to let the job get done, rather
than using "liability" fears to bolster their own pet peeves.

If the perceived liability problem can't be overcome, then we deserve what
we get -- which will be even more liability for ham-handed no-clue so-called
pilots -- right up to the day when _nobody_ gets into a glider, period.


Jack