Sport Pilot - School Won't Offer

What LSA qualifed aircraft was that? J-3?
A J-3 does not need the transponder.. but he would need a hand held radio
for the tower..
or coordinate the use of light gun signals.. and for a training aircraft..
the tower would get a little tired of that

BT

"Geoffrey Barnes" wrote in message
nk.net...
There is another possibility. The flying club that I belong to is also a
flight school. They won't instruct for Sport Pilot for insurance reasons.
Their position is that people with that level of training are likely to
be
higher risks, causing more incidents (if not accidents), and thus be a
vulnerability to the club.

That's a good point. Another one concerns radio comms and transponders.
Since my club operates out of a 24-hour Class D airport (AGC) which sits
well within the 30-nm mode C veil for Pittsburgh's Class B, all aircraft
have to be properly equipped. And the sport pilot wannabes would have to
be
trained to do radio work. At one point, we had one guy who owned a
LSA-qualified taildragger look into setting up a leasback with us in the
hope of attracting sport pilot students. But he would have had to add an
encoding transponder and probably some basic radio equipement to make it
work at our airport, and he decided not to bother.