LoganR wrote: ↑Tue Aug 14, 2018 10:49 pm
I've stated my aim, free up public land. If USHPA started acting like a responsible steward instead of a bunch of thugs, we wouldn't be in this pickle. Do you realize that you aren't 103? Destroying USHPA and destroying 103 aren't the same. Besides, I like the FAA better than I like USHPA...... so, no loss for me and we'd have an objective system of proficiency verification.
So, Logan, you believe the USHPA is a group of thugs only because they do not allow those, who have proven themselves to be hindrances and dangers to HG/PG flight as well as those who have not shown proficiency in flight, to fly within flying sites that have USHPA guidelines enacted? How do you leap to such a conclusion? Is it because you could not pass a mere H1 test? So now you are crying like a spoiled child? There are absolutely no records that I could find indicating that you ever received a USHPA pilot's identification number, indicating that you did not test for (or failed the test) even for an H1 rating.
The USHPA has a very long history of competently and fairly upholding reasonable safety standards within it's self-controlled, tight-knit group of trained pilots. Once in a great while a rated pilot will not uphold the guidelines set forth by the rest of the group of pilots (USHPA) and when this happens, consequences are put forth. This is what rules are about. Without self-enforced behavioral and flight rules, anarchy takes hold and disruption and failure reign. You, Logan, believe, or want the feeble-minded to believe, that you are a freedom-fighter, fighting for their right for free-flight. There is no
right for HG/PG flight. And you are attempting to bring HG/PG flight to a grinding halt by disassembling the large group of pilots of well-documented flight-skills (known as the USHPA) and their well-conceived and proven rules of behavior and flight, in order for a very small group of pilots of undocumented flight skills and behaviors, to fly while rejecting the simple safeguards and rules of their peers. You are not creating or liberating freedom. You are creating an environment that will lead to the complete extinction of unlicensed, unregulated by gov't, HG/PG/ultralight flight.
Not only is Logan attempting to redact a system of well-conceived and honed flying rules and safety from public lands, he is also, at the same time, attempting to reduce public safety, whether he understands this or not. Public safety on public lands and everywhere else is taken very seriously by the pilots of the USHPA. Every attempt to keep the non-flying public safe is ingrained deeply into every USHPA-rated pilot. Logan's free-flight ideas have not been thought out in detail. He has not been a part of the documented pilots' fraternity and therefore has no proven elegance to ensuring pilots' and the public's safety.
We are not talking about bicycling or equestrian-riding. We are determining the course of ultralight aviation. As in all aviation, there must be rules enforced to allow for a reasonably safe flying environment. And as Logan would have the FAA take reign over ultralight flight, we would no longer have any voice in the manners in which we fly. It would be only a matter of very short duration before people with little to no flying skill, and those with little concern for the safety of others, would make our flying environs so dangerous as to warrant stronger, heavier, outside control, and likely the halt of HG/PG flying on public lands. Logan is NOT a friend of HG/PG flight. Please read between the lines and understand what is at stake.
As for brushing this thread under the table so you don't have to look at it, it will all certainly go away soon enough along with your privileges to fly if Logan et al, succeed in their nefarious quest.