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 Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:39 pm Post subject: RPA rumor mill and Comm lic, ACM, etc |
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Folks,
Members can download the FAST Foundations and Principals (FF&P) from the RPA website to determine lead pre-reqs; this is a national document applicable to all signatories and lists having a Commercial License or Equivalent is required. Equivalent would need a waiver from the FAST organization. Only a third class medical is required. If you are not an RPA member, I believe you can get the document at www.flyfast.org as well. We are coding a new web page at flyredstar that will make all our online documents easier to locate in one central page.
On "dog fighting" as an RPA managed core of instruction or hosted events, I think your fellow members have spoken on several issues that ring very, very loud. There are some other key issues that deal with insurance coverage, limited resources, training logistics and others...
You vote for the board, the board sets policy on how treasury and volunteer manhours are utilized within this organization. If you are reading this and a dues paying member, you can and should vote now for your regional board member (elections close April 7th - log on to Elections under Governance) , and email your regional director when the election is over and provide them your talking points on any issue - ACM included.
With Barry, Gordon and other key volunteers help, we just pulled off the second annual Desert Thunder event in california - it was a blast, remains the best flying I experience in an Eastern Block aircraft! There was no competitive BFM/Dog Fighting - the ROE was strict on this point and it is not what this is about. You need not look at that as an RPA event, we would love to have as many T-28s as Yaks/CJs; there simply is nothing really gained for the g roup by this activity and it would draw valuable energy away from the core event.
Speaking of the core of the event, an additional goal was to validate as much of the tactical formation program (we are sourcing it from USAF/USN basic formation manuals) as possible out in the desert last week and we worked on all aspects, to include the best parameters for fluid manuevering (loose cruise), 4 ship fluid four and 4 ship tactical line abreast formations. These are applicable and demanding team formation skills and exercises for our formation-centered members and I hope the RPA board supports my position to bring this to our members as a USAF UPT-USN Flight School complexity level & content sourced-derived program. Boy that was a mou...
Fly often - fly safe!
Drew
Drew A. Blahnick
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