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Sport Pilot
Posts tagged as "Sport Pilot"
Tim Adelman, Chesapeake Sport Pilot (3/22/11)
One of the things I was most impressed with at the Sebring Sport Aviation Expo was the Chesapeake Sport Pilot booth. It was the only booth on the grounds to feature both airplanes and gyroplanes. Tim Adelman talks about how the folks at Chesapeake Sport Pilot are working to mainstream gyroplanes in the United States, as they are in other countries.
Jim Sweeney, SweeneyCorp (3/15/11)
Something that the flight training community has been becoming aware of is that the FAA is making knowledge tests for ratings more and more difficult. This is becoming news for those pursuing higher ratings, but it has been something that has been going on for Sport Pilot ratings for awhile. Jim Sweeney talks about the differences in the tests and -just as important- how to prepare for them.
Michael Percy, XLFlying (2/1/11)
Michael Percy is a one-of-a-kind pilot in sport aviation. Literally. He is the only Sea rated Designated Sport Pilot Examiner for weight shift control trikes. We talk about how people go about getting the rating, how his new designation streamlines things, and ways that training on a float equipped trike is superior to a land version.
Sport Pilot Immersion Training at the CGS Hawk Factory
CGS Aviation has announced plans to offer full-immersion sport pilot training at the CGS facilities in Grand Bay, Alabama. Accommodations will be available for students who wish to train daily in the factory’s Hawk Arrow special light-sport aircraft (S-LSA), with the goal of returning home with their sport pilot certificate. An abbreviated version of this ...
First International Sport Pilot Fly-in
“Too much fun!” was a common exclamation of my Alaska ultralight friend, Mike Jacober. His signature phrase ran through my head as 18 airplanes, mostly LSA, arrived at the Freeport, Bahamas airport for the first Sport Pilot Fly-in over December 10-12, 2010. For many this was their first flight over the ocean (including yours truly). ...
David Oord, Experimental Aircraft Association (12/14/10)
When can't a Sport Pilot Certified Flight Instructor provide all of the training required for a student wanting to become a sport pilot? That is when a sport pilot is wanting to learn to fly an airplane with a Vh greater than 87 knots. David Oord joins us to talk about what the FAA says a sport pilot CFI can't do for a student sport pilot.
Wicks and Remos Assist Michael Combs Finale
It is 49 down and one to go in the Michael Combs Odyssey. Combs venture, to become the first Sport Pilot first to visit all 50 States in a Light Sport Aircraft, has already covered 23,800 miles, logged 282 hours of flying time and touched the lives of 22 million people through newspaper, television and ...
Photos on Pilot Certificates One Step Closer
Pilot Certificates are in for another change. The FAA published an NPRM (Notice of Proposed Rulemaking) that will mandate pictures on the pilot certificate. This rule will apply to all pilots, including sport pilots.
Sport Pilot Stalled in Alaska Over Bureaucracy
Rob Stapleton of the Anchorage Examiner.com writes about the frustrations foisted onto the Alaskan sport aviation community by the FAA. The three-part series describes the powered parachute and weight shift control trike sports before and after Sport Pilot took effect. It is a tragic story of how the FAA destroyed a sport in the most flyingest state in the United States.
Foot Launched Tandems For Wheels, Too?
Powered paragliding operates under the ultralight rule, or FAR part 103, which is for solo flying only. For many years, tandem (two place) training was allowed under “exemptions” to FAR 103 until abuses essentially forced the FAA to create the Sport PIlot rule which ended all tandem exemptions, including those for powered paragliders. That left ...