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Letter circulating on the SP/LSA Catch-22

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pilotgary111

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The following is a copy of the letter I've been sending out in support of a SP/LSA Catch-22 resolution.

Any comments or recommendations?


I am writing on behalf of all the certificated pilots out there with a denied medical who just want to fly Sport Pilot for fun.

In 2004, the FAA passed into law the Sport Pilot Ruling, which allows new pilots to aviation the chance to earn their wings without the need of a FAA medical certificate and accomplish fewer training requirements too. Just before the ruling passed, DOT came in with an exclusion whereby if a certificated pilot has ever had a medical certificate denied or revoked in any way, then that pilot cannot fly using sport pilot privileges. This is a case of Catch-22 from the start!

A new pilot to aviation IS allowed to fly Sport Pilot with the same or similar medical discrepancies as a pilot with a denied medical certificate and IS doing so today...this is so unfair!

This Catch-22 exclusion MUST GO and let's allow this long awaited Sport Pilot Ruling to be what it was meant to be.... a path for pilots of any experience level, with a denied medical or not, to fly just for FUN!

I am a certificated pilot and also a former Air Force pilot with a denied medical MANY years ago.
I believe that the FAA/DOT needs to act on this allowing many more certificated pilots back into the air again. We all know general aviation needs more pilots today!

Thank you for your time and effort.

 
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