Originally Posted by
RickG
Eric - if I understand things correctly, "individual pilots flying Young Eagles on their own simply need to do the training and background check, as the rest of the policy applies only to rally situations."
This means "individual pilots flying Young Eagles on their own" are completely unsupervised as there is no need for the "Two-Deep Leadership" supervision as with a rally or group event.
Scenario: A parent brings their child to a pilot who is going to take them up on a ride. The parent has no way of knowing if the the pilot has taken the awareness training or the background check. In fact, the way the regs are written, there is a good chance no one at the field would know if the EAA YE Pilot was YPP "legal.
How does this provide improved protection for the kids?
Help me out here. I just don't see how this program makes any sense.