Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Getting your new S-LSA home

You can do your BFR in the Good Year Blimp (if you also hold a blimp
rating) and it will count for your new LSA.

Helen

Bill Hobson wrote:
>
>
> That's an interesting suggestion. I've been thinking I had to get the
> BFR in a regular airplane (because I hold a Private ticket). That will
> work if there is an instructor at the airport where the plane is
> based. Thanks.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Abid Farooqui <mailto:apollonorthamerica@yahoo.com>
> *To:* Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, August 16, 2009 12:25 AM
> *Subject:* Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Getting your new
> S-LSA home
>
>
>
> Perhaps it would be easiest and most efficient to kill two birds
> in one stone. Go to the place to buy the LSA. If you like it, buy
> it and get a CFI familiar with the plane give you training in it
> and a BFR and then fly it home.
> Most insurance companies will give you a discount on your
> insurance for the LSA anyway if you log five hours transition
> training in that model with a CFI.
> This gets you covered in all places
> Abid
>
> --- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:Sport_Aircraft%40yahoogroups.com>, "billhobson@..."
> <wrhobson@...> wrote:
> >
> > Let's say I find an S-LSA I want to buy. I go see it and
> negotiate a price. Let's also say I'm a private pilot with a
> current medical, but I haven't had a BFR for a looong time (but I
> have been getting some dual in a local 4-place airplane). How do I
> get the S-LSA home? (I DO have a valid driver's license.) Can I
> fly it home? Who checks me out in it? Do they endorse my log book
> as being cleared to fly it? It's so confusing for us old farts.
> Thanks.
> >
>
>
>
>
>

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