Adding an airplane rating to private pilot glider

On Apr 7, 3:04 pm, wrote:
On Apr 7, 5:18 am, Evan Ludeman wrote:

On Apr 6, 11:47 pm, gmcd05 wrote:

Does anyone know what the requirements are to add a private pilot
airplane rating if you already have a private pilot glider?

[...] But the
bottom line is that you have to be able to meet the practical test
standards.

Nobody has mentioned that you need to take a knowledge test [14CFR
61.63(b)(5) does not exempt glider pilots from this, although it
exempts power pilots from the glider "written."]

The Practical Test Standards don't give you much credit for being
rated, either; expect to do the whole flight test.

In fact, if you show up for your practical with less than 40 hrs SEL,
as I did, be prepared to get tested rather thoroughly. The DE was,
shall we say, initially unimpressed with my logbook. He went well
past PP-SEL practical test standards with me (unusual attitude
recoveries under the hood, partial panel was particularly memorable --
I'd certainly never done that before). I think his bottom line was
twofold: a) ensuring that I met the test standards, all of them, and
b) seeing how I responded under pressure. He just kept turning up the
heat until I was really working hard, then kept it there.