Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: sport pilot training in challenger or quicksilver

But he is ignoring one important thing. Most of those UL pilots were
illegal...
John

On Sunday 29 May 2011 08:04:13 pm Gary N Orpe wrote:
> You are spot on in your analysis. And the regular FBOS and instructors
> could care less. Trikes seem to be the exception.
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4GLTE smartphone
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Alex" <acensor@fastmail.fm>
> To: <Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: sport pilot training in
> challenger or quicksilver Date: Sun, May 29, 2011 7:11 am
> There's a sport pilot training school is California still doing sport pilot
> training in ELSA Challengers.
>
> The CFI wrote this to me months ago:
>
> "Thanks for inquiring into flight training with me at my flight school. As
> you may know, the FAA phased out training in experimental aircraft, unless
> it's the owner's aircraft.
>
>
>
> So I charge $125/hr. for a one-hour lesson, but the plane flying is free.
> That way, the FAA can't say I'm charging for the use of my plane. "
>
>
>
> I think he may be on very gray ground but for now he's doing it.
>
>
>
> Write me for contact info.
>
>
>
> GENERALLY unless you are near one of the few FBOs that have a newer
> expensive SLSA for training/rental use the door to sport pilot training is
> hard to find unless you own your own ELSA or amature built LSA and can
> find a CFI that's comfortable using it as a trainer.
>
>
>
> That's surely part of the reason there are so very few people coming
> into aviation via the sport pilot route. It has in my opinion prettty much
> been a failure if its purpose was to open the door to flying to more
> wannabe pilots. There are only about 4000 people who have come into flying
> by getting a sport pilot license. According to one of the sport pilot
> specialist advisors at EAA as many as 2000 are former previously
> experienced ultralight pilots who were able to get their UL hours and
> experience grandfarthered in and creditied toward getting sport pilot
> certified.
>
>
>
> On the other hand if the sport pilot rule was intended (as some suggest)
> to put a damper on UL flying it has succeeded wonderfully. It is
> impossible for someone to go out today and buy or build a part 103 UL and
> get any low cost training... as it used to be possible There are no more
> two seat ultralight trainers, no more BFI's (basic flight instructors). It
> is also very very difficult, even at the much higher standard CFI training
> rates, to get _any_ training suitable to get a complete newbie set up to
> strap into a single seat part 103 UL and takeoff. Statistics are as far as
> I know difficult to get, but it is certain that since the sport pilot rule
> killed two seat UL trainers and BFI's off there are practically no new
> pilots coming into flying via the UL route and after the current
> generation of remaining UL pilots die off, retire from flying UL flying
> will be a tiny fraction of what it was pre 2004.
>
> So, whether putting a damper on UL was intended or an unintended
> consequence of the sport pilot rules, having closed the door to UL on net
> the sport pilot certification as likely reduced the flow of folks into
> aviation in the USA.
>
>
>
> Alex
>

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