Fred - The rules are quite different between a private pilot certificate and a sport pilot certificate.
Private pilots have ratings on their licenses; currently, sport pilots do not. If a private pilot has a rating for airplane, single engine land, he may fly any single engine land airplane with a gross weight below 12,500 pounds. He requires a CFI endorsement in his pilot log for complex, high performance, and high altitude airplanes. Since a 152 and a Cherokee are not complex, nor are they either high performance or high altitude, no CFI instruction or check out is required to go from one to the other. Not that it's wise, but the FARs are minimums only. Insurance may require a checkout to go from one to the other, but not the FARs. Jerry E. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 4:56 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [ercoupe-tech] Restriction on Private Pilots Certificate It is my understanding if you get your PPL in a Piper Cherokee and want to fly a Cesna 152, you have to have a CFI check you out in the new make and model. If you got your ticket in a 2 axis Ercoupe and he does his job right, he will check you for spins, stalls, and slips in the check out. Isn't this correct? I have no restriction on my sport pilot lic. for 2 axis only. It is just the same for a tail dragger. If you get your lic. in a tricycle gear, you cannot step into a tail dragger and expect to fly away. You have to be checked out (training until proficient to fly it). Fred -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Gross <[email protected]> To: 'Jim Truxel' <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 2:20 pm Subject: RE: [ercoupe-tech] Restriction on Private Pilots Certificate To Jim: The examiner screwed up. Did they luck out? Maybe, maybe not. If they ever get in an accident, the attorney that sues them will probably figure it that there was a mistake made on the issuance of the pilot license. I wouldn’t want to be the examiner that issued the cert or the pilot that is using it at that point. To Tandy: If he takes the check ride in a no ped coupe and the examiner does it right, he would restrict the certificate to aircraft with20no rudder pedals. Kurt DPE From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Truxel Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 11:17 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [ercoupe-tech] Restriction on Private Pilots Certificate I have 2 friends that got their Private check rides in Coupes without rudder pedals and had no restrictions. The biggest issue they had was some instructors would not instruct in Coupes and some Flight Examiners would not conduct a flight check in them. Jim N3439H FDK ----- Original Message ----- From: Tandy Allen To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 12:07 PM Subject: [ercoupe-tech] Restriction on Private Pilots Certificate Guys - A possible buyer of my Coupe wants it to learn to fly in. Would his certificate be restricted to flying Coupes? Tandy 0D I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter We are a community of 5.9 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 1118 of my spam emails to date. The Professional version does not have this message
