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(USA) logbook endorsement requirement(s) for new glider type?
On Mar 30, 9:00*pm, bildan wrote:
An instructor endorsement for a cockpit checkout is imposed by insurance companies not the FAR's. *I understand your local instructor's attitude, I'm very reluctant to endorse logbooks for single seat gliders in which I have no experience. I have been on the other side of this scenario needing an endorsement. *My approach was to go to considerable lengths to find an instructor who had considerable experience in the type if not actually owned one. *My objective was to learn enough from him to fly the thing safely and well. *The insurance requirement was secondary. Bill D On Mar 30, 9:20*pm, Tuno wrote: For as long as I've been flying anything, including and especially gliders, I've had a CFI endorse a cockpit checkout in my logbook, for any new aircraft type I flew. Can someone tell me what/who requires this? Is it strictly insurance companies, or is there a relevant FAR paragraph? The reason I'm asking is that when I went to the local gliderport yesterday to get a cockpit checkout in the LS-8, the on duty CFI declined to sign an endorsement conducted by someone else, and he would not do the checkout himself because he was not an LS-8 pilot. I can't imagine that every CFI is able to personally conduct cockpit checkouts in all glider types (with all due respect, Mr Compton). The last six such checkouts I've received were performed by a non-CFI and signed off by a CFI. ~ted/2n7o Tuno: You know where to come - TUSC has several instructors, one of whom owns an LS-8 and would no doubt be happy to help. Usual beer penalty applies! Mike |
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(USA) logbook endorsement requirement(s) for new glider type?
Thanks Mike but Roy C arrived to help out. Otherwise I could not have
enjoyed the LS-8 flight yesterday afternoon. It's bad enough when the gubment goonies shake regulations at us while they're shaking us down; I didn't expect to get the outsider treatment from the staff CFI at the gliderport where I've spent the most money in the last six years, at the moment I was all hormoned up to get back in the air after seven months of smokin' videos and soiled Soaring centerfolds. No offense taken though, I understand where he was coming from. Sorta. We race this weekend 2N7O |
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