{"id":61707,"date":"2017-01-18T22:31:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T22:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/?p=61707"},"modified":"2023-11-23T10:27:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T10:27:49","slug":"glossaryultra-light-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/blog\/glossaryultra-light-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultralight Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ultralight aircraft is a lightweight aircraft that operators can fly\u00a0for sport and recreation purposes only. An ultra-light requires no FAA registration, nor a pilot license. As you\u2019d expect, you cannot legally use an ultralight for jet charter service.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, one of the Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s (FAA) requirements for a plane to be considered an ultralight is that it has only one seat. Other classification criteria include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For recreational or sport flying only<\/li>\n<li>Has no airworthiness certificate<\/li>\n<li>Weighs less than 155 pounds (unpowered)<\/li>\n<li>Weighs less than 254 pounds (powered)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Regulating Ultralights Using FAR Part 103<\/h2>\n<p>Another interesting fact about ultralight aircraft is that the FAA doesn\u2019t consider them to be aircraft at all. Instead, the FAA classifies them as vehicles. However, they still cover them in the Federal Aviation Regulations, under Part 103.<\/p>\n<p>Ultralights lack the\u00a0navigational, communication and collision-avoidance technology you\u2019d find in an aircraft used for jet charter service.\u00a0This is one of the main reasons the FAA only permits pilots to fly them\u00a0during daylight hours (i.e. sunrise to sunset). Nor can an operator fly an ultralight over densely populated areas.<\/p>\n<p>Given the shortened range of an ultralight (their fuels tanks can hold a maximum of five gallons), they\u2019re only useful for short excursions. And while the FAA requires no certification to operate an ultralight, we highly recommend\u00a0would-be operators to undergo some formal training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ultralight aircraft is a lightweight aircraft that operators can fly\u00a0for sport and recreation purposes only.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1402],"tags":[978],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94075,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61707\/revisions\/94075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stratosjets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}