Sport Pilot Privileges?

[SKYMASTER]

Forgive my ignorance, but can a retired airline pilot go out and fly as ATP with sport pilot privileges and no medical; or does he have to go take a checkride for the sport pilot certificate/rating? (all in the appropriate aircraft of course.)

In this example, this particular airline pilot no longer keeps a current medical and would rather not get one. He never had a medical problem while he had a medical. And he does have a valid driver's license.

Thanks.
S

 

[edmulroy]

You can fly an airplane meeting the Sport Pilot requirements within the limitations set for Sport Pilots - certified or SLSA (Special Light Sport Aircraft aka factory built) or ELSA (Experimental Light Sport Aircraft aka you built it).

You must limit your flying to under 10,000 ft, day only VFR within site of the ground and have both a current, valid drivers' license with you and meet any medical requirements of that license (such as corrective lenses). I think you also must have a current BFR.

Look here for more info:
http://www.sportpilot.org

. Ed

 

[SKYMASTER]

Thanks for the reply. So in other words, no add-on "rating" needed? Just go fly with the ATP per the sport privileges? Just want to be clear.

Thanks.
S

 

[edmulroy]

> So in other words, no add-on "rating" needed? Just go fly
> with the ATP per the sport privileges?

Assuming that you have a private or better (and you've an ATP so that's satisfied) and get the BFR, yes. As I understand it the BFR doesn't need to be done as an ATP, just to at least Sport Pilot standards and (again, as I understand it), if the CFI will play PIC, you'd not need a medical for the BFR.

. Ed

 

[nosehair]

> if the CFI will play PIC, you'd not need a medical for the BFR.

Just a note, here. The CFI would not have to play PIC for the Sport Pilot because of no medical - he doesn't have to have one to exercise Sport Pilot priveleges anyway.
The CFI would have to be PIC if the pilot (Sport or ATP) is not current per the Flight Review.

 

[VNugget]

The CFI would also have to be the PIC if the plane they do the BFR in does not meet the LSA limitations.

 

[edmulroy]

> The CFI would also have to be the PIC if the plane they do
> the BFR in does not meet the LSA limitations.

The man has an ATP. How he gets the Bienneal Flight Review, BFR, is up to him.

If he takes the review in an aircraft that requires a medical and he does not have a current medical, then the CFI would have to be Pilot in Command, PIC. If he gets it in an aircraft for which that is not required, a light sport aircraft, glider or motorglider then the CFI need not be PIC.

. Ed

 

[VNugget]

> The CFI would also have to be the PIC if the plane they do
> the BFR in does not meet the LSA limitations.

The man has an ATP. How he gets the Bienneal Flight Review, BFR, is up to him.

If he takes the review in an aircraft that requires a medical and he does not have a current medical, then the CFI would have to be Pilot in Command, PIC. If he gets it in an aircraft for which that is not required, a light sport aircraft, glider or motorglider then the CFI need not be PIC.

. Ed

Yes, we are in agreement there. If the plane is not a LSA, then it would require a medical and the CFI would have to act PIC.

 

[edmulroy]

> Yes, we are in agreement there. If the plane is not a LSA, then
> it would require a medical and the CFI would have to act PIC.

Not quite.

As I said, without a medical he could also take a BFR as PIC in a glider or even in a motor-glider such as the S10VT (140 knots, 30,000 ft service ceiling)
http://www.stemmewest.com/pages/s10vt.htm

Additionally he could go for a new rating as many (most?) ratings are an alternative to a BFR. If he does not yet have one, getting a glider rating would be a substitute (and one heck of a lot more fun).

. http://www.aopa.org/asf/publications/sa03.pdf

FAR Section 61.56
Flight Review
. (d) A person who has, within the period specified in paragraph (c) [the
. 2 year period] of this section, passed a pilot proficiency check
. conducted by an examiner, an approved check airman, or a U.S. Armed
. Force, for a pilot certificate, rating, or operating privilege, need not
. accomplish the flight review required by this section.


. Ed

 

[VNugget]

> Yes, we are in agreement there. If the plane is not a LSA, then
> it would require a medical and the CFI would have to act PIC.

Not quite.

As I said, without a medical he could also take a BFR as PIC in a glider or even in a motor-glider such as the S10VT (140 knots, 30,000 ft service ceiling)
http://www.stemmewest.com/pages/s10vt.htm

Additionally he could go for a new rating as many (most?) ratings are an alternative to a BFR. If he does not yet have one, getting a glider rating would be a substitute (and one heck of a lot more fun).

. http://www.aopa.org/asf/publications/sa03.pdf

You can't act as PIC of an aircraft for which you don't have the category and class rating (or meet the requirements of 61.321 in the case of sport priviliges)