"LWG" wrote in message
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I should have said that an LSP/SP would not have sufficed, at least without
additional endorsements. I departed from Class D airspace, and was
operating in furtherance of a business (I think).

As Jim pointed out, there's nothing about the type of operation that
conflicts with the Sport Pilot certificate.

More to the point, however, you wrote "I couldn't have done that with an
LSA". The limitations on the Sport Pilot certificate are on the pilot, not
the airplane. An "LSA" flown by a pilot with a Private Pilot certificate
(for example) can do pretty much anything they would normally be able to do
(a typical exception might be flying IFR, since not all of the "sport"
airplanes are certificated for IFR flight).

The Sport Pilot certificate certainly should expand the potential market for
these light airplanes, but the market has always existed and the airplanes
are quite usable for much of the kind of flying most pilots at that end of
the market are looking to do.

Don't confuse the pilot certification with the airplane certification. They
are two separate things.

Pete