A recreational Pilot still has to have the medical.

Patrick
student SPL
aircraft structural mech

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That's the objective. But the real outcome will be more old guys who are
scared they are going to loose their medicals.

That's going to be a major consitutuency of the Sport Pilot rule --
people with PP's and other advanced ratings who "retire" into LSAs.


Why do PP's have to retire into LSAs?

I have never quite understood why one would want the SP license (limiting
you to the lower gross-weight aircraft) over the *Recreational* license
which allows 180 hp 4 place aircraft (which I presume would include such
aircraft as the 2300 gross weight C172?)

Does not the Recreational, with a cross-country endorsement, give pretty
much everything the SP certificate gives, including the lesser medical
requirement?

Or did the onset of SP now remove the "recreational" license?