ORIGINAL: Jim Branaum
Brian,
I think you need to have another conversation with him. There are only 2 ways I know of to be covered by the AMA when the student is NOT an AMA member.
The first way is when it is a familiarization flight the instructor is giving to encourage someone to join our hobby. This is when you get to infect others with your approach to fun.
The second way is only good for 30 days and can only be done by a club appointed (and PAID for) AMA Introductory Pilot. He can train a student who has no AMA for 30 days, but I believe it has to be on HIS equipment rather than the students. Lots of paperwork and more questions than answers at the flying field, but it is approved.
Anything else is a risk being taken towards the instructors AMA secondary insurance coverage.
Hi Jim,
Maybe you mis-read me. I guess by me saying 'student', you assumed that I meant an on-going training regiment. Not at all!! Better term would be 'newbie', I guess...lol. I didn't really get into the flight-specifics behind the scenario I spoke on with the local club-leader. I should have, I guess,
but it wasn't explicitly discussed in our conversation. My assumption from the tone of things while talking was that the intro BB session I spoke on
would be on the trainers gear, and that it would be just that....an
INTRO flight. You yourself know of some times that these type of flights would be ok, as you've stated. I wasn't suggesting anything other than these circumstances.
Maybe you read that somewhere in my post?? Again, the conversation consisted of him telling me that "you could come up to the club and fly with a BB set-up before you got your AMA. In this way the trainer is resp., so they allow it at the club." That's pretty much the gist of it. I really assumed, within the scope of this conversation, that this was an offer for me to come up to the club, take a flight (one) on a BB set-up with this member, and just 'check it out'. That was it. Both he and I thought that although this was ok with-in club 'policy', anyone would be better off just getting their AMA first.
This is really a moot point for me, as I'm now a brandy-new AMA member
Now I can take my old 'self-made' (no RTF here boy!!!!) trainer to the club, get her checked out, and comence with some 'wet' flyin' fun!! I still love my lil' e-parkfliers though!! hehe
Brian