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Jerry, wrote: > My understanding is that a regular designated pilot examiner cannot test > sport pilot applicants - to do so requires the sport pilot examiner > designation. > > If I'm wrong, I'm sure that someone on the list will tell us. We have a > regular DPE on our staff at our FBO, and he tells me that he can't do sport > pilot tests. He's not likely to apply, either, since he's 6'6'' tall, and > weighs 245 pounds. He won't fit in many LSA airplanes. Jerry, I think he's correct that he's not automatically authorized - but it's just a paperwork exercise. I think he just has to read and familiarize himself with the Sport criteria and Practical Test Standards and apply. It might be worth asking him to do it, though. Some of the new SLSA have significantly more useful load and internal size than our Coupes. There's been some improvement in the state of the art in the last 65 years. Demand for Sport licenses may grow. If the FAA came up with useful changes to the program in their meeting a month or so ago, maybe it'll even grow faster. Ed Burkhead http://edburkhead.com ed -at- edburkhead???.com (change -at- to @ and remove "???") ============================================================================== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/
