DPE and ASA author Jason Blair joins Tim Jedrek to cut through the MOSAIC noise and explain what it means for your flight school.
Jason covers the 59 knot clean stall speed rule that puts your existing 172s, Cherokees, Archers, and Warriors into sport pilot training, why stall speed is judged as originally certificated, and why the model year of a Cardinal can decide whether it qualifies.
He also walks through the sport pilot only CFI limits that most operators are getting wrong. A CFI-S cannot provide the 61.129 dual cross country training your commercial applicants need, and a flight review from one restricts that pilot to sport pilot privileges. If your instructors are advertising services they cannot legally deliver, your examiner will catch it in the logbook.
Then the part Jason thinks matters most: aircraft. Manufacturers launched multi-engine and IFR approved MOSAIC compliant airplanes within days of Oshkosh, at price points near $200,000 to $250,000 against $600,000 plus legacy trainers, with clean sheet three seat designs aimed squarely at flight training and parts supply chains built for fast delivery.
The episode closes on check rides. Volume went from roughly 67,000 a year in 2012 to 156,000 last year, and about a third get sent home for broken airplanes, short cross countries, and missing endorsements. Jason explains how prepared schools earn preferential scheduling and what he tells every nervous applicant.
Jason Blair: jasonblair.net
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