| brian 
 
  
 Joined: 02 Jan 2006
 Posts: 643
 Location: Sacramento, California, USA
 
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				|  Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:22 pm    Post subject: RPA refuses to provide training to new pilots (Was: Flight |   |  
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				| John W. Hilterman Jr. wrote:
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 Gee, why don't we just blow off that requirement to have a medical in order
 to fly.
 
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 I am glad you agree it is a stupid rule. In the case of a third-class
 medical it only tells us that you were more-or-less healthy two years
 ago. Yeah, like that means anything today.
 
 
  	  | Quote: |  	  | Who does the FAA think they are to uphold some rules I don't like. 
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 Oh, no, we certainly wouldn't want to say anything bad about them. After
 all, they do it for us.
 
 
  	  | Quote: |  	  | Ugh....me know likem piss in bottle every year to fly...me takem club and go home.
 
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 As you say, it is your prerogative.
 
 
  	  | Quote: |  	  | Grow up....you don't like the flight suit requirement then take your club and go home.
 
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 I grew up a long time ago. I am exercising my right to disagree. If
 anyone can give me even one good reason that our non-governmental
 volunteer organization that is supposedly here to improve our mutual
 flying experience and help improve training for the good of all of us is
 requiring a flight suit in order to participate in training, then I will
 shut up. But you can't because there is NO reason to require it.
 
 
  	  | Quote: |  	  | By the way, battle damage or not, you've got 30+ gallons of 100LL about six inches from your feet, inside the cockpit environment.  If that doesn't make
 you a little nervous if you ever have to execute a forced landing then
 you've got no pulse.
 
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 So the RSPA should *require* me to wear a flight suit? It is no long my
 choice? My decision is removed by a few people in a volunteer organization?
 
 I never said that wearing a flight suit might not be a good idea. (I
 suspect that in summer I will be safer without one because the threat of
 hyperthermia is much greater than the threat of flash fire.) I just said
 that the organization shouldn't require it.
 
 So Hitman, you are saying that requiring a flight suit is more important
 than training so that if people don't wear a flight suit we shouldn't
 allow them to train. Gotcha.
 
 Brian Lloyd
 brian-yak(at)lloyd.com
 
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