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

Governments are known for their NO people. That is where politicians come in handy.

 

Mark in Costa Rica

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From: Helen Woods <Helen_Woods@verizon.net>
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 6:34:28 AM
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Light Sport Training Not Counting

 

According to the FAA rep I spoke to at OSH, the answer is no.

Helen

Abid Farooqui wrote:
> Helen,
> I think this was simply an unintended consequence of an existing rule. I thought FAA was already working on correcting this. Is that not the case?
> Abid
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> --- In Sport_Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com, Helen Woods <Helen_Woods@ ...> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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:
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>> 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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