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Old 12-28-2008, 07:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Bernoulli Fan View Post
I'm really glad you posted this. I honestly can't believe the FAA interpreted their own regs this way. I would certainly never have read them as such.
It wasn't an "interpretation", it was a conscious decision. They wanted to allow experienced instructors to teach despite medical issues. It was probably a cold-war initiative prompted by the DoD...they wanted to encourage GA to greatest extent possible to ensure a source pool of military pilots. Same thing in the 1930's. It's no longer necessary today because we are going from tens of thousands of military aircraft down to a few hundreds.
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Old 12-28-2008, 07:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Bernoulli Fan View Post
I'm really glad you posted this. I honestly can't believe the FAA interpreted their own regs this way.
Sometimes I am also - who would have thought the FAA would care about having really experienced teachers for advanced students or of allowing those with experience to continue to teach them?
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