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Do you like gliders but hate FAA checkrides?
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Tony Verhulst wrote
...Nearly outlanded at a Class-D field, and would have had to outland if I couldn't have communicated with tower ...... No. There are procedures to deal with that situation. See the Airman Information Manual and FAR 91.129(d). Hint: know your light gun signals. I know my light gun signals. Light gun signals and the appropriate responses are considered communication with ATC. So as a private pilot, I could enter the Class D surface area without a radio. This option is not open to the sport pilot; the issue is not lack of a radio but lack of operating privileges in airspace requiring communication with ATC. The sport pilot will not be required to know light gun signals either. Michael |
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This option is not open to the sport pilot; the issue is not lack of a radio but lack of operating privileges in airspace requiring communication with ATC. The sport pilot will not be required to know light gun signals either. You are correct. Tony |
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Doug Haluza wrote:
In some FAA regions there are no glider DEs or qualified FAA examiners. This has been a long standing problem in the Farmingdale, NY FSDO. In this case, the Sport Pilot can be a logical goal the pilot can attain, before building additional time for the private, and looking for a place to go for the test. We never get to 10,000 feet here on the East coast, and have plenty of Schweizers that meet the LSA requirements. So it can be well worth it. I read in the USA Soaring magazine yesterday about a club wanting to get more activity out of their low performance Ka-7 and ASK-13 gliders. Hmmm... I suspect they will be fine candidates for SP. I've also had some recent fine discussions with the FSDO at Fresno, and it looks like SP glider transitions will be a fine and simple test case for SP. Because the PP and Commercial and CFIG PTS are already so similar to what one would expect from the SP practical tests, there seems to be little work to be done to come up with the SP standards. Of any area of aviation that can benefit from SP, I think glider transitions is the most promising... -- ------------+ Mark Boyd Avenal, California, USA |
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