"Peter Dohm" wrote in message
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Since you are a spamcan pilot, the problem probably does not apply to you.

Well, sort of. I am rated for ASEL/S-IR, but if I am exercising sport pilot
privileges, i.e., flying with a driver's license medical, it's my
understanding that I could only fly true LSA-legal planes. Hopefully not an
issue I'll be confronting for a couple decades but it's always nice to have
the option. Enforcement of course is another question...

FWIW, I sympathize with the original logic ("no retractable gear
airplanes"), but this specific application is a bridge too far. How many
gear-down water landings are there in a year? You're effecting a huge
reduction in utility for a pretty marginal reduction in accidents. Sounds
like an issue someone got a bug up their ass about and wrote into the regs.

-cwk.