New pliot certification

[gunnss]

FYI

The FAA , has released a new pilot certification, desinged to support the recreational flyer.

link
http://www.faa.gov/apa/pr/pr.cfm?id=1874

Gunns

[X2Lee]

Originally posted by gunnss
FYI

The FAA , has released a new pilot certification, desinged to support the recreational flyer.

link
http://www.faa.gov/apa/pr/pr.cfm?id=1874

Gunns

Bastards. To put it lightly...

[gunnss]

?? why?  
The new cert allowes more pople to fly with less in the way of Hassle and still allows the "ultra light no certification required flight", it also allows a greater percentage of the aircraft to be pre assembled by Kitplane companys so that kitplanes will be avalible to the customer requireing 5% vs 51% compleation by the buyer...

As I understand it you can still buy say a powered para-sail and fly it with minimal instruction time.

and the new cert still requires a ground school, and a minumim number of hours
it does however remove the medical exam now mandated, allowing recreational flying by pilots excluded by the previous rules

Futher fact sheet

http://www.faa.gov/newsroom/factsheets/2004/factsheets_040720.htm


I really dont understand you dissaproval....


Gunns

[X2Lee]

Originally posted by gunnss
?? why?  
The new cert allowes more pople to fly with less in the way of


Gunns

They are requiring certs for ultra light whereas they didnt used to
Seems like more regulation to me

If I am wrong ill change my mind but that how I read it.

[gunnss]

more info

http://www.uflyit.com/license.htm#Will%20the%20Sport%20Pilot%20Category%20Replace%20Part%20103?


More specificly;

Will the Sport Pilot Category Replace Part 103?

No.  Part 103 (single seat ultralights) is not affected by the proposed Sport Pilot rule.  All 2 place ultralight type aircraft (including those currently used for ultralight instruction) will be governed by the Sport Pilot rule.


As far as I can tell, only two seaters will be governed by the sport pilot rule, and then becuse they dont really fit in to "part 103" which only allowed 2 seat U/Ls for flight training.

what has me Excited is that a C152 allmost fits in to the sport catagory

152 specs,
http://alion.magestower.com/dand/aviation/n89773/c152_specs.html

with the only thing out side the sport catagory being the max weight of 1670 lb vs the 1320 lb of the regulation....

Gunns

Gunns

[XNachoX]

The biggest deal about this new regulation is that the FAA no longer requires the aircraft manufacturers to abide by part (i forget )  is it?  this allows manufacturers to produce safe, fun, and affordable airplanes in the 60-80k range which is MUCH more affordable than 200k plus planes cost today.  IMO it's a big step foward.
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[Dnil]

yes more low trained pilots is what we need.

Its bad enough now dodging crappy pilots.  I cant imagine lowering the requirements.  Weeeee.

Me thinks this makes the aircraft manufacturers happy though.  More people buying news ones, then replacing the ones they crash.