Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group IFR Training and IFR Rating for Sport Pilots

Why is an IFR rating not possible for a pilot that only has a Sport Pilot certification? . . . . Only a couple of LSA aircraft even offer IFR instruments as an option (for pilots flying them that have a higher than Sport Pilot certification).

The NTSB has many accident reports of well trained, well intentioned, very responsible, highly experienced pilots (but that did not have an instrument rating) that were flying a well planned flight, but during the flight, they got caught in inadvertent flight from VFR to IMC, and then they crashed their airplanes.

It would seem to me that the Sport Pilot having the ability to earn an IFR rating, and to fly IFR equiped LSA aircraft would very helpful, and would add a new level of safety to those in the air and on the ground.

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