Sport pilots get treated as lesser pilots. This week the crew takes apart why, and why it does not hold up. The restrictions are real. The skill gap is not. After MOSAIC put Cessna 172s and Cherokees within reach of a sport pilot, the training gap closed on its own. It starts with Rich, a sport pilot in Atlanta who walked into a flight school and got told he had "so much less training."

Also this week: listener Christopher H. crossed 500 hours and passed his commercial checkride. Tape-machine messages from Luke Johnson, Sierra Squared, and Chris M. From the community: Echo November Whiskey passed the instrument checkride after "5 reschedulings with 3 DPEs." PapaLima logged a 90-day run for the ages. hakan flew his first border crossing, Germany to Austria.

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Mentioned on the show:

Brian's THE LONG WAY: https://www.makesmallcorrections.com/

Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic since 1992: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia

Long Way 'Round, Ewan McGregor: https://www.longway.tv/

Yes, Long Distance Runaround: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La9Me7alNqA

Erica's IFR class: https://www.gilbertaviation.com/