Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Training hours required

Helen:
> Mike, your own example argues against your conclusion. "30 hour for rec
> pilot." The certificate has less training required prior to the
> checkride than the sport pilot certificate (no xcountry no instrument
> required for rec while both are required for sport in a fast LSA). Why
> would the FAA think that at it takes less time to give more training to
> a sport pilot than it does to give less training to a rec pilot?

Distinctly wrong of me to mention "Rec Pilot", obviously. ;-)

> Yes, there was an initial grandfathering to start the movement of ultralight
> pilots to sport, but that was just to start the movement. There's a
> reason the FAA put an expiration date on it and that was that they
> wanted future ultralight pilot to go through 20 hours formal training.
> 20 hours was established as an appropriate time to training someone with
> previous unlogged flight experience to PTS standards for sport pilot,
> not necessarily someone starting from scratch.
> Helen

You certainly appear to have cracked it....
So then, Sport Pilot is a,
"20 hour pilot certificate for those who have previous un-logged flight experience".

I would never have figured that.

Mike

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