| The airplane is the nearest thing to animate life that | | | | enable a pilot to fly alight, small plane for pleasure. To |
| man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed | | | | fly as a sport pilot, you have to get a sport pilot license |
| to be a mere piece of mechanism; it becomes animate | | | | which consists of 20 hours of flight time, getting a |
| and is capable not only of primary guidance and | | | | medical examiner’s certificate, and passing a |
| control, but actually of expressing a pilot's | | | | knowledge test. |
| temperament. | | | | A <a rel="nofollow" |
| — Sir Ross Smith, K.B.E., 'National Geographic | | | | onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(' |
| Magazine,' March 1921. | | | | outgoing/article_exit_link');" href=" pilot license</a> |
| There are many kinds of pilot licenses that you can | | | | allows you to fly for pleasure. It does not teach you |
| receive. This book primarily deals with private pilot | | | | how to fly into an air traffic control strip at a busy |
| licenses and certifications. Pilot licenses are issued by | | | | airport like Chicago O’Hara or New York’s La |
| the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA.) They are | | | | Guardia airport. Many private pilots flying around today |
| divided into two categories:certificates and training. A | | | | though primarily fly planes as sport pilots do and hence |
| certificate defines the various levels of flying privileges | | | | do not need to have taken all the certifications and |
| that the pilot has earned. A rating defines the various | | | | flight time which they do not use.sport pilot license |
| categories andclasses of aircraft in which the pilot | | | | allows you to fly for pleasure. It does not teach you |
| may exercise the privileges of their certificate. | | | | how to fly into an air traffic control strip at a busy |
| Certificates are: | | | | airport like Chicago O’Hara or New York’s La |
| ?? Student pilot | | | | Guardia airport. Many private pilots flying around today |
| ?? Sport pilot | | | | though primarily fly planes as sport pilots do and hence |
| ?? Recreational pilot | | | | do not need to have taken all the certifications and |
| ?? Private pilot | | | | flight time which they do not use. |
| ?? Commercial pilot | | | | Sport pilots are not allowed to fly higher than 10,000 |
| ?? Airline transport pilot | | | | feet above sea level nor are they allowed to fly more |
| ?? Flight instructor | | | | than 2,000 feet above the ground level, which ever |
| Ratings primarily refer to commercial pilots, airline | | | | being higher. Sport pilots do not have to acquire the |
| transport pilots, flightinstructors, and private pilots. Some | | | | third-class medical examiner ertificate. |
| of the ratings that a pilot can receive are: | | | | Recreational Pilot License |
| ?? Airplane – single-engine land | | | | The <a rel="nofollow" |
| ?? Airplane – single-engine sea | | | | onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(' |
| ?? Airplane – multi-engine land | | | | outgoing/article_exit_link');" href=" recreational pilot |
| ?? Instrument | | | | license </a> was created in 1987. Unlike the sport |
| ?? Glider | | | | license, the recreational pilot license has almost the |
| ?? Rotorcraft or helicopter | | | | same requirements as a private pilot license such as |
| Denney Kitfox (G-FOXC), built in 1991. Photographed | | | | acquiring the third-class medical examiner certificate, |
| by Adrian Pingstone in July 2005 at Kemble Airfield, | | | | yet with more limitations and not as many benefits. In |
| Gloucestershire, England, | | | | fact, currently, there are a little over than a thousand |
| Sport Pilot Licenses | | | | recreational pilot licenses in use today. |
| The exhilaration of flying is too keen, the pleasure too | | | | A recreational pilot can not fly all the planes that a |
| great, for it to be neglected as a sport. | | | | sport pilot can. A recreationalpilot can fly only |
| — Orville Wright | | | | single-engine aircraft and helicopters, with a |
| | | | horsepower of 180or less, and can only fly planes with |
| | | | four seaters or less. At the same time, arecreational |
| Sport pilots fly smaller and lighter planes. The idea is to | | | | pilot can only have one passenger. |