Limited cross country.. based on where you are signed off to fly.. and
limited distance from "home" airport.. not a fuel thing..

Not so. I could tomorrow downgrade my recreational certificate to a
sport pilot license and fly from New Hampshire to California.

There is nothing in the sport pilot cert that limits location or
distance. Likely you are thinking about the bare-bones recreational
certificate, which can be lifted with a two-hour XC flight and an
hour's ground school on controlled airspace (and the knowledge, of
course).

Sport pilot rules are actually more liberal than recreational rules,
and the latter have been upgraded to suit the former. That's why I can
now land at a towered airport with a specific signoff for it.


-- all the best, Dan Ford

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