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Hey everyone, new member here and my first post. I'm debating on getting back into flying again. I started my PPL about 8 years ago when I first got out of college. I got about 18-20 hours logged, but couldn't maintain the funds to continue, so I stopped.

Now I'm a little more financially secure, but it's still not cheap. My first experience was just flying with any CFI I could find. I probably had 4 or 5 different ones and I don't feel like I learned much. This was in a very small town and there were no flight schools, just word of mouth that so-and-so was a CFI, call him and see type of thing.

Now I live in a larger town and there is one flight school-ish, and they specialize in LSA and Sport License, but they also do PPL. Here is a link to their website: http://www.flyskybound.com/

My question is what are the pros and cons of sport versus ppl? How difficult is it to go from sport to private if I decide later?
 
Not difficult as long as the Instructor you use for the Sport Pilot Certificate is a CFI and not just a Sport Pilot Instructor. You need that for the hours to transfer forward when you do the PPL.
 
Get your PPL. Lots more you can do with it and it won't take much more time than a Sport license.
 
You won't save much time or money getting a Sport versus PPL. I would go with the PPL unless you believe you will have difficulty with the medical. Sport you will be limited to LSA and no night flying.
 
Do you have an LSA to fly after you get your Sport Pilot? I would just make sure you have something to fly.
 
The school he posted appears to have one and exactly one airplane and it's an LSA... Click the linky... Remos...
 
Yes, the flight school has a Remos GX LSA that they use for instruction and allow you to rent.

Also, my dad owns a Quicksilver GT-500 LSA that he flies. My tentative thinking was if I got my sport license, I could start flying his Quicksilver for zero cost and log the additional 20 hours needed to obtain the PPL. At a rental rate of $110/hr, that would save me between $1000 and $2000. At least that's my thinking and I don't know if that would even be possible.
 
Start with the LSA to be sure you like it. Take your training from a CFI ,then you can move up to the ppl when your ready. And welcome to the forum.
 
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