Old, bold Sport pilots

Cub Driver wrote:

In its email newsletter this morning, AOPA boasted that it would
provide insurance to older pilots within certain limitations: no more
than 4 pax, value less than $100,000, and -- get this! -- 3rd class
medical every year!

This would seem to rule out flying on a driver's license "medical."



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I have been a member of AOPA since 1970. I thought this was one of the
times that they didn't belly up to the bar on the 3rd Class each year.
They promote a drivers licence for the sport and rec licenses and in my
state I think it is every 5 or 6 years on a drivers license. And the
argument is that a very small percentage of the accidents are medical
relivent. There should be no limitations on the 3rd class medical.

Ross

Falcon Insurance associated with the EAA can provide sport pilot insurance.
I switched from the AOPA to EAA insurance for that reason. Insurance says
Medical Certificate when required.

Jerry in NC

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Cub Driver wrote:

In its email newsletter this morning, AOPA boasted that it would
provide insurance to older pilots within certain limitations: no more
than 4 pax, value less than $100,000, and -- get this! -- 3rd class
medical every year!

This would seem to rule out flying on a driver's license "medical."



-- all the best, Dan Ford

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I have been a member of AOPA since 1970. I thought this was one of the
times that they didn't belly up to the bar on the 3rd Class each year.
They promote a drivers licence for the sport and rec licenses and in my
state I think it is every 5 or 6 years on a drivers license. And the
argument is that a very small percentage of the accidents are medical
relivent. There should be no limitations on the 3rd class medical.

Ross

On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:06:44 GMT, "Jerry"
wrote:

Falcon Insurance associated with the EAA can provide sport pilot insurance.
I switched from the AOPA to EAA insurance for that reason. Insurance says
Medical Certificate when required.

Good to know. Thanks.

I won't rent without insurance, and my FBO has the same rule. It's a
major factor in deciding whether to go to Sport Pilot privileges.


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On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 09:52:02 -0500, Ross Richardson
wrote:

I have been a member of AOPA since 1970. I thought this was one of the
times that they didn't belly up to the bar on the 3rd Class each year.
They promote a drivers licence for the sport and rec licenses and in my
state I think it is every 5 or 6 years on a drivers license. And the
argument is that a very small percentage of the accidents are medical
relivent. There should be no limitations on the 3rd class medical.

Now that we're talking about old, bold pilots, New Hampshire requires
a road test at 75 and at each renewal. I don't know how long it's good
for.

I have a friend whose father was n his 90s and had to take the thang
every year. She would drive him over. On the last occasion, when he
was 96, he came out from the office saying: :"Never again!" She
assured him that of course he would be back. He showed her the
license: they had by error renewed it for four (five?) years, so he
would have been over 100 on his next occasion.

(He didn't make it to 100, as it happened.)


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