Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group What's the FAA going to do about thier "glitch"?

Helen and Bill,

Thank you for the quick response. :)

And I appreciate all the work done by the FAA and EAA in the Sport Pilot
section. I'm confident in their ability to listen and adjust after
careful thought.

Cheers,

Thomas

medicbill@aol.com wrote:
>
> I have heard them same thing. Only makes sense because it was the
> whole reason that the sport pilot license was developed. To make it
> supposedly easier and cheaper to get into flyin and then work your way
> up to other licenses and ratings.
> Bill
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Helen Woods <Helen_Woods@verizon.net>
> To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wed, Nov 25, 2009 4:22 am
> Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group What's the FAA going to
> do about thier "glitch"?
>
> There are serious rumblings that this may be fixed when the new rules
> come out. The most recent expected release date for the new rules is
> the week of Dec 13th. Until then, we wait to see.
>
> Helen
>
> Thomas Carlson wrote:
> > Is there an update to this?
> >
> > I'm thinking of working with a sport pilot cfi, but would like to have
> > all the time spent on the sport pilot certificate count towards the
> > ppl(or at least have the option).
> >
> > Rod Machado posted this a while back...
> >
> > http://www.rodmachado.com/?p=64 <http://www.rodmachado.com/?p=64>
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Thomas
> >
> >
> >
> > rickpitcher wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> --- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com>
> >> <mailto:Sport_Aircraft%40yahoogroups.com <mailto:Sport_Aircraft%40yahoogroups.com?>>, "Gary Orpe" <garyo@...> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I got half way through that and had to quit. That was more confusing
> >>>
> >> than
> >>
> >>> the letter from the lawyer to me.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I don't know what was said in the letter from the lawyer to you,
> >> but I maybe I can help unconfuse you about the interview.
> >>
> >> Basically, they have been aware of the "glitch" for a while and had
> >> some discussion with the rule-writers about how to clarify things.
> >> They agreed that the intent was to allow the instruction to count
> >> towards higher ratings.
> >> Earl sounded a little peeved that "someone" had to push the issue and
> >> demand an interpretation NOW, so that's why we got the unpopular
> >> decision and cut off any further room for negotiation.
> >>
> >> Now they have to re-write the rule to get back to the original intent.
> >> BUT... now here's where you mighta got lost... there's some new
> >> revisions coming out soon, and we don't know yet how THEY might effect
> >> things. So the orgs are waiting 'til they get a chance to actually
> >> READ the new law before deciding what to do about it. (I hope congress
> >> is listening)
> >> In the meantime, ther'e talk about putting ALL CFI's under one subpart
> >> (or whatever they call it) so the problem would go away on it's own.
> >>
> >> At least that's how I understood it,
> >> Rick
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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