Sport Pilot Talk

I actually bought a 2007 Skyranger Classic about a year ago with a partner. It needed quite a bit of work (replacing fabric, engine work, etc.), but we're almost ready to fly it now. It has a Jabiru 2200 engine. Let's keep in touch. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of these planes in the U.S., s...

I'm in the process of forming a flying club with a few other sport pilots in Albuquerque, NM. We're considering a Rans S6ES that has a very high time (2000 hrs) Rotax 912 ULS. It sounds like these frequently make it well past TBO, but since we're buying the engine second hand it's something of a bla...

Thanks for the tip, Paul. That's exactly what I was looking for! I figured there had to be a company out there offering this kind of service.

Recently, I had a flat tire in a rental plane at a very remote airfield. Long story short, we weren't able to patch the tire, the owner of the plane had to bail me out, and it ended up being a 12 hour ordeal. The plane owner was surprisingly nice about the whole thing! The experience got me wonderin...

I'm in the process of forming a flying club with a few other sport pilots in Albuquerque. We're still in the early phases of planning, but we will likely be buying an aircraft in the next several months. Buying a plane that's nearby would simplify the logistics, but we are also looking at a few plan...

Thanks for the tips, everyone. I'm looking forward to getting back on that horse. I think the Allegro will be a fun plane to fly once I get more experience in it.

One other question- on a tractor configuration airplane does the slipstream from the prop mess with the yaw string?

I am a low-time sport pilot with experience in a Tecnam Sierra, Remos GX, and an RV-12. Recently, I had an opportunity to train in an Allegro 2007 and will hopefully be able to fly this plane somewhat regularly in the next few months. This plane was, by far, the most difficult-to-control plane that ...

I passed my checkride on April 6 and am now a Sport Pilot. Sadly, two days after my checkride a tragic accident occurred in the plane I trained in, destroying the aircraft and taking the lives of an experienced flight instructor and his student. No one knows what caused the accident yet. I probably ...

Thanks for all the responses and encouragement, everyone. I'm in a holding pattern (or very extended downwind) at the moment as I'm waiting for the DPE to find a time to do the oral and practical exams with me. I had the practical scheduled a couple of weeks ago but we had to cancel because of the w...

Hi Everyone, My name is John. I'm a student sport pilot living in Albuquerque, NM. I've been doing my flight training in a Remos GX at Santa Fe Municipal airport and plan to take my practical exam in the next week or two. I got interested in aviation while working on my PhD in Wildlife Sciences. I w...