The FAA has issued InFO 26006 (April 10, 2026) to address questions following the MOSAIC rule, which expanded sport pilot aircraft privileges effective October 22, 2025.
Flight instructors with only a sport pilot rating (14 CFR Part 61 Subpart K) are limited to providing training, checking, and endorsements solely for sport pilot privileges under Subpart J. The same restriction applies to Subpart H instructors when they exercise sport pilot privileges.
Any endorsements issued—including flight reviews, high-performance, complex, or tailwheel endorsements—restrict the recipient to sport pilot limitations (§ 61.315 and 61.316), even if the pilot holds a higher certificate.
A sport pilot only flight instructor who provides flight training, including a flight review, even to the holder of a higher-level certificate, is only allowed to provide training that would allow the recipient of that training to exercise sport pilot privileges. To highlight this point in an example consider the following:
- A private pilot has an expired medical, but is flying exercising “sport pilot privileges.”
- That private pilot receives a flight review from a Sport Pilot (only) CFI.
- That private pilot is limited to flying only under sport pilot privileges, even if they then get a new third-class or higher medical or meet the requirements of BasicMed.
For Sport pilot CFIs who are providing a flight review, to make this more clear, the FAA recommends using this sample language for flight reviews (and similar wording for other endorsements) to clearly state the limitation:
“I certify that [name], [certificate grade/number], has satisfactorily completed a flight review of 14 CFR § 61.56(a) on [date] and is limited to sport pilot privileges and limitations (Subpart J).”
Flight training providers and instructors are encouraged to review the full InFO and incorporate the clarified endorsement language to avoid inadvertent privilege limitations. This guidance will be added to future updates of AC 61-65 and AC 61-146.
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