"Michael Stringfellow" writes:

Mike McN - I disagree with your interpretation. In my reading of
the regs, an ultralight vehicle cannot be classified as any category
of aircraft, even if it looks like a glider. Since there is no
minimum weight for a glider, you can certainly register one like the
Sparrowhawk, but then it becomes a glider (a category of aircraft)
and ceases its life as an ultralight!

The preamble of the FARs includes the DEFINITION of a glider, and the
Sparrowhawk meets that 100%. As you said, there is no minimum weight.
It IS a glider, that is the LAW. Interpretation not needed.

FAR 91 and friends talks about towing a GLIDER, *not*, Glider other
than an Ultralight Glider, so it covers ALL gliders.

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