TV1 tonight.
A pleasant little argument about Ballooning and Part 115...
According to CAA 33 organisations have signed up to Part 115 to save the general public and make aviation safer for the masses...a debatable claim.
The obvious omission is all the other groups who haven't. Perhaps the journalist could have talked to the skydive organisations that have closed down.
Or pointed out that not one of the Gliding clubs or commercial organisations have signed up (as far as I'm aware).
I must admit that CAA have managed the PR spin very well. Between smiling Yak operators, Vector articles, and pieces on the News, we and other adventure operators who have excellent safety records when dealing with the public have been shut out of the debate.
Leading up to the implementation of the regulation CAA claimed that at least 4 gliding clubs/organisations were intending to get a certification...where are these 4 groups?? It was a fiction of course...
Yes yes...I need to build a bridge and get over it...
On a brighter note...I was at Lake Karapiro at lunchtime to watch some Secondary Schools Rowing (Maadi Cup Regatta for those who know what that entails). The best looking sky I've seen in the Waikato ever...
The Maadi Cup is reputed to be the biggest Secondary School sporting event in the southern hemisphere...a big claim which is both hard to measure and test but who cares...it's big. Good to see lots and lots of kids in the age group we wish to bring into Youth Glide doing stuff.
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