Thursday, June 23, 2011

Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Flying an ELSA with a Sport Pilot license into Canada?

> Posted by: "circicirci" acensor@fastmail.fm
> At the EAA "ask the expert" site the expert wrote:
> "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?


I think the technical hitch in your plan is this....
"Where are you going to stop to get porno-scanned?"


Mike


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