Sport Pilot - School Won't Offer

Cub Driver wrote in
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just try getting to California and stay below 10,000MSL, you'll have
to go the long way around.. through NM and AZ... and stay out of Class
B, C, and D... and don't fly at night..

No, I can fly in B-C-D airspace, thanks to Sport Pilot rules. The
other points are correct but of no importance to me. I don't
particularly like to drive at night, let alone fly, and the Cub is not
very able above 10,000 ft.


-- all the best, Dan Ford

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To be more precise, any sport pilot can fly in B,C,D, airspace with a sign-
off (and proper equipment, of course) IMHO it's better to get that signoff
AFTER getting your license, should make the checkride more focused on the
fundementals.

ET

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:04:27 GMT, ET wrote:

To be more precise, any sport pilot can fly in B,C,D, airspace with a sign-
off (and proper equipment, of course) IMHO it's better to get that signoff
AFTER getting your license, should make the checkride more focused on the
fundementals.

I agree, and that's one reason (there were others) why I went for a
recreational pilot certificate. I knew I could patch it up later--or,
in the case of controlled airspace, wrongly thought I could. I was
delighted when the Sport Pilot thing came along and bailed me out.

As posted earlier, I had my B,C,D airspace endorsement within a week
of the Sport Pilot rules going into effect last September. (Thanks in
large part to my own CFI/friend, the FAA revised rec pilot privileges
to match those extended to Sport Pilots.)

Of course, if a Sport Pilot (or recreational pilot) wannabe is doing
his training at a towered airfield, he will want the airspace
endorsement in the course of training.



-- all the best, Dan Ford

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