Private Pilot's License (Have?/Want?/Getting?)

[Stone Cold Steve Jobs 22,410]

I would love to get one. Alas it’s just not in the cards. I don’t even make enough money to live alone.

Edited April 22, 2020 by Stone Cold Steve Tuna
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[Splashee 28,537]

On 4/18/2020 at 4:45 PM, Cirrus. said:

I also have NO interest in a mickey-mouse thing like a paraglider. The same reason why I got a Camaro over a motorcycle.

Are you allowed to drive a paraglider without a license?

[Cirrus. 1,088]

37 minutes ago, Super Splashee said:

Are you allowed to drive a paraglider without a license?

I think you need a lesser sport license.

[Splashee 28,537]

1 minute ago, Cirrus. said:

I think you need a lesser sport license.

The sky is really large, why not just let me take off for free?

[Pentium100 2,056]

12 minutes ago, Super Splashee said:

The sky is really large, why not just let me take off for free?

Because, I assume, it's rather easy to crash and kill yourself

[Cirrus. 1,088]

19 minutes ago, Super Splashee said:

21 minutes ago, Cirrus. said:

I think you need a lesser sport license.

The sky is really large, why not just let me take off for free?

A true single seat ultralight requires no license to fly (assuming it meets the requirements of Part 103 for an ultralight aircraft). Any two seat "ultralight" or Light Sport type aircraft requires a Sport Pilot Certificate or higher to fly.

Yup, it is free to fly, but there are limits to where you can fly them and other restrictions. You don't need a license for a single seater, but need to learn the restrictions.

Flying around airports is NOT ALLOWED. Keep that Micky Mouse stuff away! (You would probably get sucked into a jet engine anyway)

Edited April 22, 2020 by Cirrus.

[DubWolf 16,606]

1 hour ago, Cirrus. said:

A true single seat ultralight requires no license to fly (assuming it meets the requirements of Part 103 for an ultralight aircraft). Any two seat "ultralight" or Light Sport type aircraft requires a Sport Pilot Certificate or higher to fly.

Yup, it is free to fly, but there are limits to where you can fly them and other restrictions. You don't need a license for a single seater, but need to learn the restrictions.

Flying around airports is NOT ALLOWED. Keep that Micky Mouse stuff away! (You would probably get sucked into a jet engine anyway)

I was looking into that not long ago. It seems like fun in the sense that you're using much less metal and thus more maneuverable and free-breezing through the air.

[AppleButt 8,669]

8 minutes ago, WWolf said:

I was looking into that not long ago. It seems like fun in the sense that you're using much less metal and thus more maneuverable and free-breezing through the air.

Ultralights scare me, tbh.  Just like motorcycles, you won’t ever see me riding one. 

[DubWolf 16,606]

41 minutes ago, AppleButt said:

Ultralights scare me, tbh.  Just like motorcycles, you won’t ever see me riding one. 

Guess that makes them the motorcycles of the sky  .

[Spacey 747]

I dont have much of a dream to fly anything in the sky but i am taking courses right now for my job to get a version of a commercial pilots license to fly drones for jobs. Here if you use a drone to make money for a business then you have to have a license.