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  • From: "Jim Ray" <jim AT neuse.net>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Your Own Personal Fold-up Plane
  • Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:57:17 -0400

/me remembers trip back from Washington DC to hometown Greensboro NC in
the early '70's when the gyroscope navigation thingie went haywire and
pointed us to the Appalchian Mountains due West instead of South in our
v-tail Bonanza with 285 Continental. Skyline Caverns was cool, though.

I never got to take off and land since I did not have a license. Dad let
me take the wheel (er, yoke) once upon a time.

Must be nice getting your own license. Some of us gotta drive a minivan
to get around.


-----Original Message-----
From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy
Portzer
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 3:31 AM
To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Your Own Personal Fold-up Plane

Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp AT pobox.com>
wrote:
>
>> --Jeremy, currently taking lessons for the *real* pilot's license.
>
> So, is there any difference in requirements for a private pilot's
> license between the US and Australia?
>

[Sorry for slow reply!]

There aren't many differences in the skills themselves and overall skill
level requirements. However there are some differences in navigation
techniques, air traffic control procedures, etc. So I'd probably
require about 4-5 extra hours of training to convert my AU license into
a US one. (Right now I'm about 10 flight hours into my training; it
will take 40-50 total. One nice thing about the AU system is they don't
have required ground school - you can just learn the theory along the
way on your own.)

One difference that does exist is that the AU private license doesn't
include visual night flying, as it's considered too unsafe given
Australia's low population density and thus limited lighting. Night
flying is a required part of the US private license, so I'd have to pick
that up.

As with many things related to international standards, the US is far
behind from full compliance with the International Civil Aviation
Organization's (ICAO) requirements. So for some things I'll learn the
ICAO way, and then if/when I come back to the US, have to learn the
non-standard US way. *sigh*

--Jeremy
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