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Student Pilot Certificate
Procedures and Sport Pilot Endorsements
The following contains important information for student pilots,
flight instructors, designated pilot
examiners and aviation safety inspectors issuing student pilot
certificates for sport pilot training
using FAA Form 8710.11.
GUIDANCE. The new rule requires a person who holds a student
pilot certificate while seeking a sport
pilot certificate to comply with the new limitations established
in §61.89(c) and the medical eligibility
requirements established in § 61.3.
Eligibility requirements:
An applicant for a student pilot certificate must:
1. Read, write, speak and understand English, (if not, refer
to AC 60-28);
2. Be at least 16 years of age for airplane, gyroplane, airship,
weight-shift control, or powered
parachute (14 years of age for balloons and gliders);
Medical Eligibility:
An applicant for student pilot certificate for sport pilot —
Must hold either a medical certificate or U.S. driver's license
-- A person must hold and possess
either a valid medical certificate issued under part 67 or a
current and valid U.S. driver's license when
exercising the privileges of a student pilot certificate while
seeking sport pilot privileges in a light-sport
aircraft other than a glider or balloon.
General limitations:
(A) A student pilot may not act as pilot in command of an aircraft:
(1) That is carrying a passenger;
(2) That is carrying property for compensation or hire;
(3) For compensation or hire;
(4) In furtherance of a business;
(5) On an international flight, except that a student pilot may
make solo training flights from
Haines, Gustavus, or Juneau, Alaska, to White Horse, Yukon, Canada,
and return over the province of
British Columbia;
(6) With a flight or surface visibility of less than 3 statute
miles during daylight hours or 5 statute
miles at night;
(7) When the flight cannot be made with visual reference to the
surface; or
(8) In a manner contrary to any limitations placed in the pilot's
logbook by an authorized instructor.
(B) A student pilot may not act as a required pilot flight crewmember
on any aircraft for which more
than one pilot is required by the type certificate of the aircraft
or regulations under which the flight is
conducted, except when receiving flight training from an authorized
instructor on board an airship, and no person other than a required
flight crewmember is carried on the aircraft.
(C) A student pilot seeking a sport pilot certificate must comply
with the provisions of paragraphs (a)
and (b) of §61.89 and may not act as pilot in command:
(1) Of an aircraft other than a light-sport aircraft;
(2) At night;
(3) At an altitude of more than 10,000 feet MSL; and
(4) In Class B, C, and D airspace, at an airport located in Class
B, C, or D airspace, and to, from,
through, or on an airport having an operational control tower
without having received the ground and flight training specified
in §61.94 and an endorsement from an authorized instructor.
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