Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: NAFI poll

Chris,

IMHO, you are looking at CFI's selfishly voting their opinion to help
preserve their market share. The lower "entry cost" of a SPI is
perceived as a threat to the current CFI's livelihood.

This is, of course, a falsehood as the lower entry cost of sport pilot
will in fact generate more private pilots and up in the long run as
prospective pilots who would never have taken the plunge are lured by
the lower cost of entry, then proceed to get higher ratings.

Bruce Johnson
Plans building a AeroVee powered Sonex in Schertz, TX

Chris wrote:
>
>
> I just voted in the pole, which asked the question, "Should training
> received from a sport-pilot instructor be applicable to other ratings
> and or certificates?" I have to say... I'm absolutely shocked by the
> number of "No" votes. I figured there'd be a couple, but the score was
> 71 - Yes to 50 - No.
>
> I'm curious... What is the argument people are using to say the training
> provided by a sport pilot instructor should not count toward a PPL or
> beyond? Regardless of whether a Sport Pilot got his training from a CFI
> or a SPI... that Sport Pilot still had to fly to the exact same
> Practical Test Standards. Any comments?
>
> - Chris
>

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