Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: LSA to Bahamas

Apologies if this is a reply that has already been handled.

Bahamas as mentioned elsewhere here is one of the few places outside the USA that recognizes USA sport pilot licenses as valid.
(I believe Australia does if you jump through certain application hoops in advance.)

The St. Thomas airport STT is a class-D towered airport so a sport pilot would have to have, in addition to their sport pilot license, have an endorsement for flying in controlled airspace. That's not too hard to get.

So the answer is yes it would be legal.

The more practical questions would be the capabilities of the pilot and aircraft.
It's about 250 nautical miles from Florida to the Bahamas, and about 700 from the Bahamas to St. Thomas, over open water.
Not something to do lightly in an aircraft that might have a range of 700 miles, many LSA's have less range.



--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, W Jones <will2010jones@...> wrote:
>
> (I am a newbie, so be gentle).
>
> LSA rated sport pilots are able to fly from US gateways to the Bahamas.  
>
> Can one fly, say, from FLL to Bahamas to STT under their sport license?
>
> Thanks.
> WJ
>




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