Genghis
by microlight do you mean Annex II - Single seat max gross 300 kg, 2 seat max 450 kg?
And that includes the pilot(s) doesn't it? I'd love to be wrong though.
The trouble is, on a personal basis - me (bare) 92 kg, clothes 2 kg parachute 7 kg, water & sarnies 1 kg = 103 kg near enough.
And that excellent website sailplanesdirectory.com says that my main single seat aircraft's (Slingsby Skylark 4) empty mass is 272 kg. 18 metre wings made of wood are not light! So no 300 kg AUW for me - and most single seat glass gliders are not significantly lighter.
My favourite 2 seater (T21 Sedbergh) is 256 kg empty (struts allow much lighter wings and the span is less). So me + T21 = 373 kg. OK I could make sure that the other pilots are less than 77 kg (fly with small females only!) but a lot of males that I fly with are heavier!
And the ASK13, which must be the most heavily used 2 seat trainer used in the UK is 290 kg empty - so only 57 kg pupils for me?
so I don't think the microlight route would work - but please correct me if I'm wrong
