Jim Stephenson talking about Sport Pilot Blitz

Crusty O'l Fart wrote in
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This is crap. How is a 2 place Quicksilver even close to being too
heavy?

e sould talk, have you seen him lately.......Talk about FAT
ultralighters.........

Heh, :-)

Yup,

Him and CJ Campbell too. But i LIKE CJ Campbell.

Now,
tell me how many of the legal weight exempted Quicksilvers have EVER
trained anyone! Yes, there are some, but I would bet at least 75-90% of
them are pretending to be trainers so they can be flown for recreation
either with, or without a passenger.

On my last vacation, I visited an ultralight field in Arizona; there
were 25 UL's on the field in gang type hangers. 20 of them were 2
seaters. ONE offered training. ONE! One of them had an old cement bag
strapped to the passenger seat as ballast. The bag had obviously not
been moved for a LOOOONNNG time.

Now I'm not saying that maybe 103 "shouldn't" be changed to allow this
to be legal, I'm just saying it's not, and that's part of why Sport
Pilot came down the way it did.



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