Don’t confuse the Part 61 privileges of a Sport certificate with the soon to be Part 22 aircraft standards.
Not quite. Endorsements are needed for faster or slower. If a SP trains in an airplane faster than 87kts he's good for that, but needs an endorsement to fly a slower plane.
I wouldn't say "very small":
I haven't decided if you're trolling or clueless.
The delay for ASTM standards applies to new LSA aircraft. Changes to what a SP may fly takes effect sooner.
The ASTM standard itself hasn't been written yet. When it's finished, the FAA will adopt it July 2026. Perhaps what you mean to say is that hopefully the manufacturers of these existing planes already have testing data that shows compliance with the standard and only need to supply a statement of conformance.
??? The ATSM standards exist, they just need to be modified. Not a heavy lift.
OK, the updated ASTM standard
Yes, correct.
It makes sense, though. A lot of ultralights have been wrecked by pilots of faster planes who aren't prepared for a low speed low mass high drag plane.
I think that's what the FAA originally thought, too... but from what I've seen most seem to be training in Cubs and similar aircraft. Going forward it will be 150s and 172s.
I am not trolling or clueless. There needs to be a medical standard beyond you got a drivers license don’t you. Let’s take 1 simple standard - eye sight. The standard to drive a car and what a pilot needs to avoid mid air collisions isn’t the same. Yet some people think if your vision is good enough to read road signs and not run over pedestrians you are good to fly airplanes and now we are going to let you fly even faster airplanes.
FWIW, the FAA requirement for 3rd class is 20/40. In VA, the D/L requirement is…..wait for it……20/40.
Thats not a medical standard.
And like I said earlier, if you need a physician to tell you you’re healthy, you may not have any business flying an airplane.
You don’t need to be healthy, but you can’t be too unhealthy. And yes, some people need a doctor to tell them that.
And those people are all Sport Pilots?
There is very little personal flying that I’ve done over the last 40-some years that I couldn’t have done under the MOSAIC rules if they had existed. If this had existed 45 years ago, I’d have gone Light Sport and stopped there unless or until I decided to make my living flying.
They are the people who never have to discuss their medical history and medications with a doctor to fly.
Which has little to no bearing on their ability to fly safely.
I am sorry you have to spend thousands of dollars to get the SI. The guy walking into a flight school with the same untreated medical condition is going to be flying with us. Some think that’s cool, I don’t.
Don’t be silly. Obviously the same medical issue is much safer because of a piece of paper from the government.
It seems that for some people this takes on the mantle of an ideological debate. Belief usurps facts, and like most zealots there’s the conviction that all of the rules MUST be followed to the letter… except those pesky ones they don’t agree with, because after all they know what’s best for us all.
So you think I am supposed to prove the effects of a recent change to the regulations by examining the past 20 years when the regulation was different? I am good dude, but not that good. It’s likely to take a decade until there is measurable results the FAA would evaluate concerning this change. The insurance companies look at a different accident horizon.
How do you propose doing that?
The pattern is full of 10-hour wonders trying to figure it out now, so 20 seems like an improvement.
The medical aspect of the regulations hasn't changed with MOSAIC; only the type of airplanes a SP can fly has been expanded. If Cubs and other LSAs haven't been falling out of the sky for the past 20 years because their DL-medical pilots have a health issue, there's no more likelihood that 172s and Bonanzas will now. So please give it a rest.
That's something that many critics seem to forget.
The FAA says we all need physicians to tell us we're healthy, so I take your hyperbolic drivel with a grain of salt.
Yeah, but is the salt good or bad for you?