Aircraft Owners and Maintenance
Sport Pilot 2.0’s accessibility doesn’t stop at flying; aircraft owners can take advantage of opportunities designed to let you do more to your own aircraft with proper training.
So, how can Sport Pilot 2.0 help aircraft owners?
Sport Pilot 2.0 opens new opportunities to aircraft owners with new and exciting makes and models including different production models of experimental amateur-built aircraft.
- Provides a pathway for future electric, hybrid, distributed power, and other new propulsion technologies. Sport Pilot 2.0 enables innovation by removing the restriction that powered LSAs must have a reciprocating engine.
- Opens the door to new makes and models of S-LSAs, enabling S-LSA manufacturers to design larger, more capable aircraft under industry consensus standards.
- Expands the potential for new E-LSAs entering the market, expanding the options of various categories providing more choices and greater flexibility to aircraft owners, including ready-to-fly and almost-ready-to-fly aircraft.
Sport Pilot 2.0 also expands the scope of aircraft eligible for Light Sport Repairman ratings and creates pathways for nonbuilder owners of amateur-built aircraft to perform their own annual condition inspections.
- Light Sport Repairman with a Maintenance rating (LSRM) can work on all new S-LSAs entering the market (not eligible for legacy standard-category aircraft such as Cessna 172s).
- LSRM certification course changed from specific three-week duration to a requirements-based curriculum that should be roughly the same length.
- LSRMs may perform annual condition inspections on all experimental amateur-built aircraft.
- Light Sport Repairman with an Inspection rating (LSRI) may perform annual condition inspections on any experimental amateur-built aircraft that they own (requires at least a two-day course).
- Minor alterations and repairs may be performed on S-LSAs without manufacturer approval.
