Single seat differences training

[Genghis the Engineer]

Here's an interesting (so far non) problem.

I'm a CRI, plenty of hours, quite content and competent to conduct and sign off microlight differences training, amongst other things. Ditto tailwheel.

I'm thinking of buying a Minimax - little single seat taildragger in the microlight category.


I have a friend I might want to let fly the Minimax. He's got more hours than me, UK/JAR/EASA CPL, including 3-figure Chipmunk hours and various other taildraggers. However, he's never flown a microlight.


I'd trust him to fly something like a Minimax, with adequate briefing. I'd be content that I could brief and debrief him adequately on flying it until he'd be fine unsupervised.

Early microlight training in the UK of-course was all ground supervised in single seaters, until aeroplanes like the Thruster TST came along in the mid 1980s.

Can I legitimately conduct differences training in it (or entirely by briefing)? I suspect that the answer's "no", but would love to have it proven otherwise.

G