Thu Sep 30, 2021 8:49 am
#1873535
Different standard checks.
Greater knowledge of maintenance and aircraft ownership / management required in microlights
Understanding of 2-stroke engines is required of microlight pilots
Low level navigation is more predominant in the microlight syllabus, but the use of PLOGs is not with no use of the whizz-wheel in the microlight nav syllabus.
Microlight steep turns are to 60° not 45° of bank
Knowledge of air law as it pertains to permits to fly
And clearly, understanding of low inertia / high drag aeroplanes. The pilot you check out in an EV97 might then go and buy an X'Air.
Converting the other way, I've found microlight pilots much more intuitively "stick and rudder" and much less procedural - they need to learn how to fly procedurally, make active use of the PLOG, that sort of thing.
Those would be the main differences that automatically come to my mind.
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Greater knowledge of maintenance and aircraft ownership / management required in microlights
Understanding of 2-stroke engines is required of microlight pilots
Low level navigation is more predominant in the microlight syllabus, but the use of PLOGs is not with no use of the whizz-wheel in the microlight nav syllabus.
Microlight steep turns are to 60° not 45° of bank
Knowledge of air law as it pertains to permits to fly
And clearly, understanding of low inertia / high drag aeroplanes. The pilot you check out in an EV97 might then go and buy an X'Air.
Converting the other way, I've found microlight pilots much more intuitively "stick and rudder" and much less procedural - they need to learn how to fly procedurally, make active use of the PLOG, that sort of thing.
Those would be the main differences that automatically come to my mind.
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