If you need to get a medical certificate, log into MedXPress to begin the application process. The AME will review your application, ask you some questions and conduct a medical examination to determine whether you are medically qualified to fly.
Assuming you are, the AME will then issue you a medical certificate. For your training, you can choose a specific certified flight instructor CFI or sign up with a pilot school. Your instructor or school will provide you with ground training on operational, aeronautical, meteorological, and procedural topics. Ground school prepares you to take your written exam and gives you the baseline knowledge you will need before you get in the air.
Would-be sport pilots must study for and pass a written test that demonstrates their academic understanding of important principles, concepts, procedures and regulations.
You will need to log a minimum of 20 hours of flight time before you are eligible to take your check ride, although the average student takes closer to 33 hours before their CFI is ready to sign them off for the test.
Fifteen of these hours must be with an instructor and you must have at least five hours of solo flight time before testing. Once your meet your training minimums and your CFI feels you are ready, he or she will sign off on your skills and help you schedule your check ride with a designated pilot examiner DPE. The DPE will administer a verbal and practical exam, often referred to as a check ride. This is your day to prove you have mastered the skills and gained the knowledge needed to be a safe sport pilot.
Prove your competency to the examiner and once the test is over, they will help you to submit your final paperwork to the FAA so you are officially a licensed sport pilot. Sign up for our newsletter and be in the know.
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That's right -- only 7 days after I sat in the cockpit for the first time, this crazy guy was going to let me take the controls alone, while he stayed on the ground and -- I'm assuming -- prayed. Together, we took off for the Leesburg, Florida, airport, and landed. We went for a quick tour of the control tower, and then Etian stayed behind while I took the plane out for a few "laps" around the traffic pattern.
As I taxied the airplane down taxiway alpha, heading for "runway one-three," my anxiety was palpable. I also couldn't help thinking "but you just learned how to do this, like, three days ago! As I pushed the throttle to full, and started speeding down the runway, the nerves went away, and I was at peace.
I took off, hung a left, and got back in the box-shaped traffic pattern that surrounds the airport. I lined up once again for the runway, and touched down. It wasn't my best landing ever, but I was down. Full power, flaps set to "takeoff," capturing the center-line, airspeed 52 knots, rotate. I was in the sky again for my next "touch and go.
The next landing was better than the first, and the six that followed were even better. As I landed for the last of my eight laps around the pattern, I have to say, I felt pretty good about myself. Etian hopped back aboard, and we headed for home -- Orlando Apopka Airport just a few miles away. Waiting for me on the other end, was Valencic and several of the other flight instructors -- with a "Keep Calm and Fly Solo" T-shirt.
They also had a pair of scissors to cut the shirt I was wearing off my back. It's a time-honored tradition that goes back to the days when flight instructors in open-cockpit airplanes would tug on their students' T-shirts to tell them which way to fly. When you flew solo, there was no instructor to pull on your shirt, so they made sure to do it when you got back. The big test. Over the five days that followed, I did another 20 or so laps at Leesburg, and flew a 2-hour solo flight from Apopka to Crystal River airport on the Gulf Coast.
This "cross-country" flight is a requirement of the training, and it was one of the most peaceful experiences I'd ever had. However, the aircraft must remain in standard category and cannot be changed to light sport aircraft category. May be operated at night if the aircraft is equipped per FAR The Sport Pilot Rule: A sport pilot may exercise flight privileges in one or more of the following aircraft categories: Airplane single-engine only Glider Lighter-than-air airship or balloon Rotorcraft gyroplane only Powered Parachute Weight-Shift control aircraft e.
Trikes The sport pilot rule: Creates a new student sport pilot certificate. Creates a new sport pilot flight instructor certificate. Requires FAA knowledge written and practical flight tests. Credits sport pilot flight time toward more advanced pilot ratings.
Requires either a 3rd class FAA medical certificate or a current and valid U. Does not allow carrying passengers for compensation or hire. Does not allow flights in furtherance of business.
Allows daytime flight only. Allow sport pilots to fly vintage and production aircraft standard airworthiness certificate that meet the definition of a light sport aircraft. Allows current CFIs to train sport pilots.
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