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Old 05-31-2014, 11:39 AM
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I was unclear, I fully understand the rules, but not the reasoning behind them. I am sure no one made any study to determine that suddenly I am dangerous when I decide to fly above 10k, or that without a medical I will crash a lot if I fly at night. I was poking fun at the somewhat silly assumptions sometime made when the LSA stuff came about. For some time we could fly over a 9800 ft peak, as long as we did not exceed 10K, then cooler heads changed the rule to allow us 2k clearance..

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The 10 K limit applies with no medical because the pilot is a PPL exercising LSP privileges when there is no current medical.

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Old 05-31-2014, 11:58 AM
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Don,

It's the Feds! You don't really expect it to make sense do you?

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Old 06-01-2014, 08:27 AM
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I wonder if the reason, if there is one, for the 10k + 2k AGL limit for those who do not have a current medical, is the expectation that older pilots may be more affected by lack of oxygen (hypoxia) at higher altitudes.
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Old 06-01-2014, 10:54 AM
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10 K is also the speed limit ceiling and the transponder altitude. I doubt they put that much logic into it.

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Old 06-01-2014, 11:28 AM
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I was unclear, I fully understand the rules, but not the reasoning behind them. I am sure no one made any study to determine that suddenly I am dangerous when I decide to fly above 10k, or that without a medical I will crash a lot if I fly at night.
The reason is that there is no reason.

As a SP, flying on a drivers license medical, I can't exceed 10k MSL.

As a PP-G, flying on self-certification medical, I can exceed 10k MSL.

Thus, the 10k MSL limit has nothing to do with the medical.

So what is it? The FAA tells you its about training, but this is circular and self-serving logic! The FAA, after all, wrote the SP regs and the PTS. They decided that SP can add-on Class B/C/D endorsements to their SP. So why not allow an endorsement for exceeding 10k MSL? The FAA clearly wanted to restrict SP to < 10k MSL, but never gave a good reason why, and "training" is just an excuse.

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