There is no IFR as well as night flight training required for Sport Pilot. While you can buy a LSA that is equipped with and capable if IFR flight most used for training are not routinely equipped.
Bill
In a message dated 12/29/2010 7:25:16 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, averys_98550@comcast.net writes:
I see no reason a sport pilot couldn't take all the instrument training they want. But as long as the certificate they hold is Sport Pilot, they still will not be allowed to fly IMC or night. If at the same time they get the training and move up to Private pilot and they're good to go. I understood there were two reasons for the Sport Pilot cert. One was to close the badly abused loop hole for 2 seat U/L training exemption (a very sore subject to many here) and the other was to give new pilots a less costly avenue to get into the air and start building time and maybe move on up. A stepping stone if you may.
Helen, How much hood time is a Sport Pilot trainee required to receive, and how much night training? My information is incomplete in this area, but I thought it was -0- hours on each. Other than an occasional trainer may want to show a student just how much trouble they can get into if they blunder into IMC. Most of the planes available are not equipped to safely fly IMC either, though you may pull it if with some of the MFD's that are around their installation has not been tested and certified.
--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, Helen Woods <Helen_Woods@...> wrote:
>
> Just my opinion, but the sport pilot certificate was designed solely to
> be a recreational certificate, not a transportation certificate. An
> instrument rating is an add-on rating for the purpose of transportation.
> The private pilot certificate is a transportation certificate. Not a
> lot of folks who get much recreation out of running around in the soup.
>
> Helen
>
> On 12/29/2010 9:26 AM, wj18001900 wrote:
> > 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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