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3. It's an 'experimental' airplane and only requires a Sport Pilot License

Wed Nov 8, 2017, 08:28 PM

Nov 2017

Apparently the SPL requires only about half the instruction and flying time of conventional pilots licence. Halladay may even have been flying with an Initial Sport Solo licence that can be had in a whopping ten hours. Woefully inexperienced, and now reports are surfacing of him stunting in the plane prior to the crash, including a video:

http://www.nj.com/sports/index.ssf/2017/11/watch_roy_halladay_piloting_erratically_before_fat.html

The plane is manufactured down the road from me so the crash involving the engineer was big news in out area. The National Transportation Safety Board blamed the crash on pilot error. Apparently the pilot flew into the wrong canyon (box canyon) up at the lake ten miles away doing touch and goes on the water.

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