Sport Pilot License 'Types'

[TenSeven]

Once you decide that Sport Pilot is the type of flying you want to do, is the training for Sport Pilot generic, meaning, do you first need to decide what type of aircraft, say, fixed wing or gyro, that you want to fly or is the Sport Pilot part of the training for either one, the same but with the additional training specific to the type of aircraft you want to fly.

[TenSeven]

The Sport Pilot training will obviously be specific to the type aircraft you are being trained in. Then, presumably, you would take your flight test in that same type aircraft. Once you have a Sport Pilot certificate, I believe it is pretty simple to add a different type aircraft to your Sport Pilot certificate by taking flight instruction with one CFI and then taking an endorsement ride with a second CFI. Of course, you would need to meet all the Sport Pilot experience requirements for the type aircraft you are adding.

Thanks

[drseti]

For details on adding new category and class privileges under Sport pilot rules, see my free EAA webinar at the archives: eaa.org/webinars.