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Due to the nature of this sport, everyone is required to sign a Student Pilot Application, which includes a waiver of liability.
The following applies, if you only wish to pay for, and achieve, a radio assisted Solo Flight (instructor to student). The cost is $395.95 and includes: Due to the cost of fuel, the price is temporarily $455.00 and includes:
| >Aero Sports Connection, Student Fee |
| >ASC Solo Certificate |
| >ASC Powered Parachute Wallet ID Card |
| >Powered Parachute Log Book |
| >Ground School, Includes: instruction, questions & answers, testing (1-2 hours) |
| >Air Frame and Engine Familiarization |
| >Pre Flight Briefing and Instruction (1 hour) |
| >Dual Flight Instruction (Instructor and Student on the Flight) |
| >Your First Radio Assisted Solo Flight (Radio communication from Instructor) |
| >For an additional $50.00, we can send you home with a video tape or CD of your flight, with a new high tech helmet camera. |
First let's define solo flight. Solo flight is: That flight time in which a student pilot, who under the direct supervision of a qualified and licensed instructor, is the solo occupant of the aircraft, (which meets all the required applicable rules and regulations set forth by the FAA and the governing agency under which the instructors license is granted). In this case a powered parachute.
The requirements necessary for a student to achieve solo status in a powered parachute are described below.
You must be sixteen years of age or older.
Sign a waiver of liability/Student pilot Application.
Before being authorized to conduct a solo flight, a student must have received and logged flight instruction in the appropriate areas contained in FAR 61.87(c) as well as instruction covering FAR 103, (this may sound complicated, but it's not).
Usually students SOLO within 1 to 3 hours of flight time, plus 2-3 hours of ground school. If it takes a student more than 4 hours of flight time with the instructor, to solo, those additional hours will be billed out at the standard rental rate, the cost of gas is included. See the Cost Page
The student must have demonstrated satisfactory knowledge to the appropriately rated instructor, by the completion of a pre-solo written test. This test is not hard at all if you listen to the instructor.
The student has to pay the fee's for training, or purchase an ultra light from the Instructor/Dealer, in which case the solo flight fee's are applied towards the cost of the plane. If a student quits, his fee's are not refundable, however, in certain circumstances there may be an exception.
Next, you are off flying!
The ultra light organizations, their staff, the Instructors and every one else involved have donated a lot of time, effort, and money to bring to the public, (with an enormous effort towards safety and FAA regulations), a fun and affordable sport of flying ultra lights. Like every other sport where there is an inherent amount of danger involved, there are liability wavers. This waiver basically says that Aero Sports Connection and the instructor cannot be held liable for anything. (Accidents, property damage, etc.) and that the students are responsible for attaining a thorough understanding of all information, procedures, and actions that are necessary to ensure a safe flight prior to beginning every flight. Between sixteen and the age a person is legally responsible, the parent or legal guardian must sign for the student.
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