Tuesday, August 4, 2009

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

Hi Gary,
No FAA does not think "not". They think "yes". This is their lawyers who missed complete analysis at the start ... an unintended thing. I believe they are already working on correcting it.
Abid

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "Gary Orpe" <garyo@...> wrote:
>
> None of this I mean personally, just generally speaking.
>
> I guess the question is are the spCFI's trained enough to do this for
> private and up? Instructors of course is what I mean. I think the FAA
> thinks not.
>
> Even the recreational ticket I have is good for Private. If I had been
> trained by a sport CFI it would not. It was a definite hassle to do mine
> that way but apparently worth the 60+
> hours it took to do it. I sure didn't think so at the time. :-)
>
> A step further is to not waste time with SPCFI's and go direct to private
> CFI's (sub H). Seems King schools and Cessna and the pilot center's are
> gearing up to teach sport pilot. I would assume at that point, the true
> SPCFI's would be in low demand and ample supply. IMHO of course. There is
> a thousand of those Skyscrapers going to schools as it stands now, from
> what I have heard.
>
> So while all this is going on it would seem proper to ask those on here
> that are SPCFI trained how many have any instrument time as privates? To
> jump up and down on IFR and night flight for sport is a sure fire way to
> shoot yourself in the foot, seems to me. The reason given for the spCFI
> was to null and void the BFI's from any more training, and it worked. Even
> dumped the two place UL, fat or otherwise.
>
> An example of a instructor that would not be harmed by this would be, Jon
> Thornburgh in Torrance, California. I'm sure there are others out there as
> well.
>
> Now just speaking to the fixed wing crowds only, as the others are
> specialized enough to have there own instructors, perhaps, just for the
> transition time. Seems most things Cessna has done points in that
> direction like a straight arrow on target. The big uns will definitely
> point the way, given the standards they work with. It can all be done
> simply with supply side and the operating limitations seems to me.
>
>
> Gary O.
> N181RL
> 661 746-4780
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Helen Woods
> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 5:52 PM
> 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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