"Neither the sport pilot certificate nor the ELSA airworthiness certificate are internationally recognized. In order to fly to Canada as you suggest, you would have to have specific written permission from Transport Canada for both yourself as the pilot and your aircraft in order to operate in Canadian airspace."
Logically (although government departments are not always logical) it would seem that would be fine with the Canadians as our LSA standards meet what they call their Ultralight standards (and of course they have been allowing the older LSA classificable aircraft such as Taylorcraft, etc) in their skys for decades) and out Sport Pilot licensing standards, IIRR, meet or exceed their standards for an Ultraligh pilot's permit.
So here are the questions:
# Has anyone here or anyone you know ever flown into Canada with a US LSA and a Sport Pilot license, either with or without that "written permission?"
# Has anyone here or anyone you know or now of ever tried to get written permission (from Transport Canada) to do that?
# If so did they get permission, or were flatly turned down, or given conditional permission, or just gave up after getting a runaround?
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