Operations
PPC pilots typically enjoy flying "low and slow," and the PPC is an excellent platform for sightseeing and photography. PPCs are also used in agriculture, and occasionally by law enforcement agencies and flight search organizations such as ELLASS (Emergency Low Level Aerial Search and Surveillance), a search and rescue organization founded by the PowerChute Education Foundation.
PPCs do not need an airport to take off and land. Many pilots fly from back yard strips, small airports, and mown hay fields.
In the U.S., ultralight PPCs (like other classes of ultralight aircraft) are not allowed to fly at night. See FAR part 103 for regulations governing U.S. ultralights. However the FAA implemented in 2004 the Sport Pilot rule which expanded the range of venues in which PPCs can legally fly. Indeed, a properly equipped PPC may be flown at night or over metropolitan areas by a private pilot with a PPC rating.
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