Sport Pilot Talk

jim,

2 possibilities,

1) your guy is confused
2) he is expecting the sonex to be LSA certified by the time he finishes his build and expects his build to qualify when sonex gets the certification.

looks like you are right jim, from sonex web site ======================= Sport Pilot How We Qualify The sport pilot certificate allows persons to operate "light" aircraft that meet the following criteria. We've listed how the Sonex,Waiex, and Xenos meet each of these criteria below: -----...

...I thought any aircraft built by an individual had to be registered as Experimental unless it was certified? the LSA regs created 2 new categories 1) Special Light Sport Aircraft - SLSA - factory built LSA 2) Experimental Light Sport Aircraft - ELSA - home built LSA sonex could be registered expe...

it's the last day of summer and it is snowing. i'm thinking about winter operations this year. i'm going to get an oil thermostat kit from lockwood, as well as a kt to relocate my oil pressure sending unit to the firewall. i have a little block heater installed already and will put some aluminum tap...

when jim bede was selling bede5 kits his marketing was impressive.

he manage to get countless people without even a student license to buy a design that was a less than safe to fly.

the jabiru is harder to keep cool

tom, we have been looking for training for erin, my girlfriend for 1 1/2 years. the problems are, that actual instructors proficient in the ctsw are 150 to 200 km away. this year my policy will permit any pilot with 5 hours in type to fly my ctsw so we tried a local cfi. an old friend and a good pil...

i found this old thread in google's cache. i'll do a simple cut and paste of the text and see how readable it is. =========================================== Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 22 Location: Texas PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:45 am Post subject: being a sport pilot CFI question Reply with q...

Hi Paul, for the last year and 1/2 i have been trying to set up instruction for my girlfriend in my ctsw. living in the eastern sierra distance is a big issue. finally i went flying with a local CFI go get the 5 hours he needs to be covered by my insurance. it lasted less than 1 hour before he bowed...

In a thread about the Lane Wallace's review of the CTSW someone here pointed out that the Indian Airforce Pilot was quoted as saying that the CTSW "lands like a drunken dinosauer" I got a chance to ask Rahul what he meant and turned out he never said it in the first place. Actually Rahul a...