Clicking Down to a Deadline for Ultralight Pilots

Don’t wait until the last minute to request your records from USUA, ASC, or EAA. The number of requests is bound to accelerate as the deadline bears down on ultralight pilots.

So, you’re an ultralight pilot with many hours flying one of the great light airplanes that enjoyed the limelight long before Light-Sport Aircraft. Then FAA goes and creates a new class of pilot. Now, despite your pilot credential from USUA, ASC, or EAA, you have to go get a new one. Earning it involves a written test plus a flight check with oral exam…all of which you’ve already taken. “What sense does that make,” you ask? Point taken, but that flight has left the ground. You have to do it and you ought to do it soon. Why? Because if you act before January 31, 2007, you can at least get credit for all that time you’ve logged. What’s worse than having to pay to take tests for stuff you already know? How about having to go fly with an instructor to acquire the 20 hours it takes to qualify for a Sport Pilot certificate? (It isn’t called a “license.”) So, don’t wait. Click links under the photo. *** Of course, I hasten to add that Part 103 is not changing! Ultralights continue in their original definition.