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BGA Instructor Requirements
At 15:42 26 April 2007, Nyal Williams wrote:
snip As I understand it, the BGA allows beginning level instructors for this basic instruction. I'd be more interested in seeing a tiered instructor level like that for the US than a wholesale requirement that all instructors be required to have a gold badge. snip AFAIK, a Basic Instructor is effectively limited to upper air work (but I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong about that), so someone new to gliding fairly quickly needs an Assistant or Full instructor. Where I fly has an evening for ab-initios and another for the Bronze group, all instructors for those are AIs or FIs. As to gold badges - one of our Bronze instructors must have enough diamond flights for a tiara of his very own, but thankfully he's not that sort of guy! (and fitting it under the canopy without damaging him, it or the canopy might be problematic) Two more of the four do XC flying (and I'm pretty sure have gold), will ask the 4th next time I see him. My view is that we are very lucky to have these guys teaching us, especially as they all normally give up an evening a week for 7 months of the year. |
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BGA Instructor Requirements
126Driver wrote:
The three levels of instructor is interesting and makes sense. Another difference seems to be orientation in that there is some expectation that the student may fly cross country some day. I don't think this is part of USA instruction. During my recent checkride for PPL-G, the examiner asked a lot of questions about landing out, probably more on that than on any other topic aside from maybe reading sectionals, which has similar applicability. My instructors similarly asked me about landing out, mainly when we were in the air and they could show real examples. I fondly remember one wave flight where we spent probably half an hour picking out fields and discussing how to land in them. More advanced topics than this generally were not covered. I think the idea is that you should know enough to save yourself when you can't make it back, but anything more is up to you to learn (and get training on, if you wish) afterwards. -- Michael Ash Rogue Amoeba Software |
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BGA Instructor Requirements
On Apr 25, 7:10 am, 126Driver wrote:
Would a USA instructor easily qualify as a BGA instructor. Or would they need additional training. My experience of this is over 20 years ago. I returned to UK after earning my US CFI, Gold, and 2 diamonds and with 150 hours in my log book was quickly granted a UK assistant instructor rating. I probably was not given a full briefing on the restrictions as the CFI ( the C is Chief for the US folks)had a little word with me after I soloed a student without talking to him first. I did some training at Lasham for full cat and would have received it except that I got tired watching the rain while I waited in the hope of flying and returned to US. Andy |
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BGA Instructor Requirements
The FAA criteria for a CFI-G in the US are apparently
based on old criteria from the 1920s and 1930s with some updating in the pursuit of safety. In my view, it would be useful if the SSA devised two or three levels of SSA Instructor recognition similar to the BGA standards. I don't believe I would base this on badges; we have many pilots who fly cross country but don't bother with SSA badges. Further, in the proper location, one can earn all the diamonds without having made a dozen X/C flights, and further still, one could have earned the badges decades ago and not have done any X/C flying since that time. I believe some combination of total hours of X/C, the number of X/C flights, total distance flown, and recency of this experience would provide a better indicator of qualifications. We already have SSA Instructor, and SSA Master Instructor; why not elaborate that a bit and give it more publicity and status? At 20:12 26 April 2007, Andy wrote: On Apr 25, 7:10 am, 126Driver wrote: Would a USA instructor easily qualify as a BGA instructor. Or would they need additional training. My experience of this is over 20 years ago. I returned to UK after earning my US CFI, Gold, and 2 diamonds and with 150 hours in my log book was quickly granted a UK assistant instructor rating. I probably was not given a full briefing on the restrictions as the CFI ( the C is Chief for the US folks)had a little word with me after I soloed a student without talking to him first. I did some training at Lasham for full cat and would have received it except that I got tired watching the rain while I waited in the hope of flying and returned to US. Andy |
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BGA Instructor Requirements
Not directly on topic, but a variation of a review of training philosophy.
http://www.gfa.org.au/ops/training.php |
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BGA Instructor Requirements
Overview of the BGA system, for the interested:
http://www.gliding.co.uk/bgainfo/ins...quirements.htm Dan |
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BGA Instructor Requirements
On Apr 27, 7:07 pm, Dan G wrote:
Overview of the BGA system, for the interested: http://www.gliding.co.uk/bgainfo/ins...quirements.htm And further, explaining the limitations on what a BI can teach: http://www.gliding.co.uk/forms/Basic...nformation.pdf |
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