I can see the process going like this.

1. Jet person from the boonies goes to a jet meet and finds someone witness them and to sign them off.
2. Jet person flies satisfactorily.
3. Witness take form home and then gets it notarised after the meet. If the witness has to use a public notary, then I guess the jet person will reimburse the witness for the notary's fee.
4. Witness posts form to jet person.
5. Jet person gets his signature notarised.
6. Form is sent to AMA.

Presumably the AMA will allow current waiver holders to sign each other off the first time around, due to the bootstapping problem Bob describes. The notarising is only required once. After that, I presume they assume that there will be enough experience waiver holders to get the job done, and the experienced waiver holders are trusted enough to not require the notarising.

The new waiver applications would appear to require notarising, but whether the signatures from the examining waiver holders need to notarised, I don't know. Form 575 is not posted on the AMA documents page.

There are a some other problems, like statement that maximum velocity is 200 mph. Subsequent discussion reveal that airspeed is what was actually meant (as reported on RCU, and I also asked Carl specifically). I don't know whether it's just the engineer in me, but I think documents like this should say exactly what the author means.

The TRC also made very few changes to the helicopter and control line requirements. TCDs are still required for these aircraft, but not for fixed wing aircraft. I have to ask how many TCDs (mostly fixed wing guys) would want to keep their positions just for helicopters and control line fliers? Note that the fixed wing requirement is for one of the waiver holders to be a CD, but it's not required to be on the TCD list. Helicopters and control line still require someone from the list.


One thing I just notices, but wan't mentioned at the meeting is that the ground school requirement is gone. With everyone having auto start engines now (according to the AMA definintion) I guess it isn't necessary to have specific manufacturer training - the flight demonstration will cover this adequately.

The reason I'm posting is to have others go through the document with an eye for detail and send comments, as requested in the email from Ilona before the February EC meeting. Don't just pick on the controversial issues, but go through the entire document and think through all the procedures to make sure they actually achieve the desired result, and don't have unfortunate consequences.