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

Helen,

I spoke with Larry Buchanan and Jay Levis (my POI) of AFS-610 at OSH09. They do not expect that this interpretation of 'authorized instructor' to mean 'commercial instructor' will hold up for long. Too soon to worry.
-Art-

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From: Helen Woods
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:52:22 -0400
To: <Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Light Sport Training Not Counting

 

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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