Glider PPG license necessary for USA utility certificated motorglider?

On Friday, November 13, 2015 at 4:46:55 PM UTC-5, wrote:
Sorry to belabor an abstruse point, the practical answer being PIC should have PPG-S/L (airmen to have rating appropriate to category and class), but it does seem like for the box on the aircraft airworthiness cert, utility and glider are mutually exclusive:

Aircraft Category. The term "category," as used with respect to the certification of aircraft, means a grouping of aircraft based on their intended use or operating limitations, for example, normal, utility, acrobatic, or primary. For purposes of this order, gliders and balloons will be referred to as categories rather than classifications.

I never have understood why Category and Class are defined different for airmen and aircraft....

Cheers Kristin






You are incorrect. It does not say airplane in that box for airplanes so why would it say glider for glider?
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