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p.mulwitz(at)worldnet.att
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 4:17 am Post subject: Hood Time for Sport Pilots

I don't know the training requirements for sport pilot certificate, 

but several listers have suggested there is no instrument training 

requirement.  If this is true, I think the training requirement 

should be changed.



Several times I have found myself in perfectly legal VFR conditions 

that were impossible to survive without flying on the gauges.  The 

rules for VMC are all about avoiding mid-air collisions and not about 

controlling the airplane.  When the world is all grey and you are 

flying over calm water there is no visual reference at all outside 

the plane unless you happen to see another airplane within a few 

miles.  This kind of weather is just as likely for a sport pilot to 

run into as a private pilot.



I hope any instructor who trains beginners for sport pilot 

certificates gives them at least a little bit of hood time.  This 

teaches them they can't fly without seeing something outside the 

plane and might encourage them to read the books and take a few more 

hours of basic instrument training which could save them in the worst 

of the conditions they might encounter.



Paul

XL fuselage



At 11:39 AM 5/10/2007, you wrote:

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		  Do LSA certificated pilots do any of the hood time that PP do?

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Tim Juhl

Joined: 21 Mar 2006
Posts: 488
Location: "Thumb" of Michigan

Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 10:29 am Post subject: Re: Hood Time for Sport Pilots

VFR requirements for a sport pilot are three miles visibility.  Hood time is not a training requirement.  That said, I for one would heartily recommend it for anyone who will be flying an aircraft other than a powered chute or simple ultralight.   If you don't have an attitude indicator, you can still learn basic instrument flight with a turn and bank, altimeter and compass.... enough to get you turned around and heading out of trouble.   The only alternative is to have the discipline not to fly when conditions might be marginal.



Tim

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