AFS-16-106692-E

January 31, 2017

 Exemption No. 8828E

 Regulatory Docket No. FAA-2006-24262

Mr. Mackenzie Dickson

Government Advocacy Specialist

Experimental Aircraft Association, Inc.

3000 Poberezny Road

Oshkosh, WI 54902

Dear Mr. Dickson:

This letter is to inform you that we have granted your petition to extend Exemption No. 8828. 

It transmits our decision, explains its basis, and gives you the conditions and limitations of the 

exemption, including the date it ends.

The Basis for Our Decision

By letter dated November 4, 2016, you petitioned the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 

on behalf of Experimental Aircraft Association Inc. (EAA) for an extension of Exemption 

No. 8828 as amended. That exemption from § 61.415(b)(1) of Title 14, Code of Federal 

Regulations (14 CFR) allows members of EAA who are certificated flight instructors with a 

sport pilot rating to provide ground training, flight training, and logbook endorsements for a 

private pilot certificate with a powered parachute or weight-shift-control aircraft rating 

without holding the applicable category and class rating on at least a private pilot certificate.

In your petition, you indicate that there has been no change in the conditions and reasons 

relative to public interest and safety that were the basis for granting the original exemption.

The FAA has determined that good cause exists for not publishing a summary of the petition 

in the Federal Register because the requested extension of the exemption would not set a 

precedent, and any delay in acting on this petition would be detrimental to EAA.
2

Our Decision

The FAA has determined that the justification for the issuance of Exemption No.8828 remains 

valid with respect to this exemption and is in the public interest. Therefore, under the 

authority provided by 49 U.S.C §§ 106(f), 40113, and 44701, which the FAA Administrator 

has delegated to me, the Experimental Aircraft Association is granted an extension to its 

petition which allows members of EAA who are certificated flight instructors with a sport 

pilot rating to provide ground training, flight training, and logbook endorsements for a private 

pilot certificate with a powered parachute or weight-shift-control aircraft rating without 

holding the applicable category and class rating on at least a private pilot certificate, subject to 

the conditions and limitations listed below.

Conditions and Limitations

1. No certificated flight instructor with a sport pilot rating may provide ground 

training, flight training, or a logbook endorsement for a private pilot certificate with a 

powered parachute or a weight-shift-control aircraft rating unless that person holds at least a

private pilot certificate with the corresponding powered parachute or weight-shift control

aircraft privileges at the sport pilot certificate level.

2. The EAA must maintain a list of those member flight instructors exercising the

privileges of this exemption.

3. Any flight instructor exercising the privileges of this exemption must maintain a 

copy of this exemption in his/her physical possession while exercising its privileges.

4. Any flight instructor who provides a person with an endorsement under the 

provisions of this exemption must provide the person receiving the endorsement with a copy 

of this exemption and evidence that he or she is a member of the EAA authorized to exercise 

the privileges of this exemption.

5. Any flight instructor exercising the privileges of this exemption who signs the

instructor recommendation block of FAA Form 8710-11, Airman Certificate and/or

Rating Application-Sport Pilot, must attach the following to the applications:

a. A copy of this exemption; and

b. Evidence that he or she is a member of the EAA authorized to exercise the

 privileges of this exemption.
3

The Effect of Our Decision

Our decision extends the termination date of Exemption No. 8828, unless sooner superseded 

or rescinded, this exemption terminates on January 31, 2019.

Sincerely,

/s/