Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Light Sport Training Not Counting

I strongly support the rule and the requirement to be a "full" CFI. It is ridiculous to think that a 150 hour private pilot who passes the FOI and CFI test be considered able to teach to the level of a 250+ hour instrument commercial pilot who goes on to become a CFI.

Are there any "high school" graduates out there who you think are qualified to be a "college professor"? How about a First Aid first responder, can he/she now do heart surgery like a surgeon?

As professional instructors we need to be raising the bar and increasing the quality and qualifications. Not dumbing down like the rest of society is doing.

I hope those who agree with me will make the same call to those organizations and tell them there are two views to this issue.

Respectfully,
Scott Johnson, Chief Pilot
LSA North, Stick-n-Rudder Flight Training

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, Helen Woods <Helen_Woods@...> wrote:
>
> I just got back from OSH, and from the look of my inbox, 101 e-mails
> only debating IFR LSA aircraft, I'm guessing that the big news that
> REALLY affects us as a community got burred last week with all the media
> focusing on OSH. Last week FAA legal officially declared that dual
> instruction given by a subpart K instructor (aka sport pilot instructor)
> does NOT count towards additional ratings. This means that if two
> students take identical training at the same school, using the same
> planes, examined by the same DPE, to the same sport pilot standards, but
> one learns from a "sport pilot instructor" (subpart K) and the other
> learns from a "traditional instructor" (subpart H) and both wish later
> to become private pilots, the former will have to repeat her training
> while the latter will not. This codifies the previous opinion of AFS 610.
>
> I and several others including the alphabets pleaded in our response to
> the previous NPRM to have the wording of the sport CFI rules changed to
> correct this unfair situation. Unfortunately, when I spoke with the rep
> from FAA Legal at OSH he said there currently is no movement afoot
> amongst those working on the final rule to change this situation.
>
> We need to fight this ruling. I'm open to ideas. I currently think our
> best bet is to try and get the alphabets to lobby the FAA to make sure
> this gets changed when the final change to the sport pilot rules is
> released in December, but we have a very limited window in which to do
> so. If you are as upset about this situation as I, please join me this
> week in calling the following groups and asking for their help:
>
> AOPA 1-800-872-2672
> EAA 1-888-322-4636
> NAFI (National Association of Flight Instructors) 920-426-6801
>
> Thank you.
> Helen
>

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