Master License?

[Hooknswoop 19]

I was looking through the SIM's for other stuff and came across this:

(FAR 105.45)
The "parachutist in command" on a tandem skydive must meet the followinfg requirements;

105.45 a) (1) (iii) Holds a master parachute license issued by an organization recognized by the FAA

I was under the impression that the USPA removed the "Novice", Intermediate", "Advanced", and "Master" titles from licenses.

Is the "D" license still a master license, meeting the FAA's requirements for tandems?

Hook

[AggieDave 6]

They were refering to me, the master skydiver...

Maybe they mean that the tandem instructer is the master skydivers?

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[skybytch 273]

I wonder how you'd go about getting a master license. Is there a school? Or maybe some special seminar you can attend? I'll bet there's a certification course of some kind for it.


(mental note - posting while drinking is not necessarily a good idea)

[rgoper 0]

Hook:

jumpers may earn the U.S.P.A. Tandem Instructor Rating Who Have (all of the following)

A) reached the age of 18 years
B) holds or has held any USPA instructional rating or has attended a USPA BIC course
C) earned a USPA "D" license or the FAI equivalant
D) logged 500 jumps on a ram air canopy
E) presented a current FAA class 3 medical certificate, or the equivalent.
F) demonstrated five practice tandem cutaways wearing tandem equipment and with a simulated student harness in the presence of a USPA tandem instructor. tandem I/E, or tandem instructor rating course director.
(Note) prior experience with an actual cutaway is also recommended)
G) completed the tandem instructor profiency card.
H) satisfacorily completed a USPA tandem instructor certification course, registered with the USPA headquarters and including training for at least one manufacturer's brand model (type) of tandem jumping equipment.

this is straight out of the brand new I.R.M. so it's gotta be right?

--Richard--
"We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

[PhreeZone 20]

How about those TM's that don't have the USPA rating but just the manufactors rating?

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And tomorrow is a mystery

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[rgoper 0]

it (the I.R.M.) doesn't address that issue, but i'm sure if you were not USPA certified, and something happned.......ICH! i stay current with all of my ratings with the USPA, even though it does costs a lot of money. drop zones that are not USPA rated, from what i understand, must still have USPA certified personal to carry out each task.

--Richard--
"We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

[slotperfect 7]

-The FAR segment you quoted includes the USPA "D" License.
-A Tandem Instructor rated only by the manufacturer of the rig he is jumping can do tandems for "rides" only
-A USPA Rated Tandem Instructor can do "rides" AND a skydiving training progression that includes tandem jumps at the outset

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John

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(mental note - posting while drinking is not necessarily a good idea)

Not drinking before posting can be detrimental also....

[freeflir29 0]

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this is straight out of the brand new I.R.M. so it's gotta be right?

Did you buy that? I hope not....it's going to be changed this week at the Board meeting. It'll probably take a few months for the final version to come out.