[Farva]

Look while I understand your frustration with having to go to a couple of meetings and go up for a Profiency Check with a instructor it is only for your safety as well as the school. The reason being insurance. Lets say you were not very current, but enrolled in a flight course, took your parents up flying without a checkout even though you flown UND's planes lots of times, and you had a accident. Somebody got hurt or even if nobody got hurt the school would be sued for negligence. Now this is most likely a situation that is not gonna happen but it could if we did not have these barriers.

The insurance is not cheap at UND by all means. Aviation is a dangerous field and well as snickers and some other have pointed out, the insurance is only regulated to Flight Training and the employeed flight instructing staff. If you are a student you are not on the insurance policy like the flight instructors are. As a student you fall under the flight training policy and last I checked taking your parents up is not a flight training event. It may be stupid, it may be overkill, but its makes for a much safer flight and you know what it youst to be you could do stalls, steep turns, and land at other UND approved airports but some dumb people had to ruin it for all of us. My two cents.


-Farva