With more and more countries introducing both pilot licensing and aircraft certification for ultralight and microlight craft, they have become a respectable and exciting avenue for anyone wishing to fly.

As regulations are beginning to achieve some measure of standardisation, we are starting to see more and more microlight aircraft used for sporting purposes. There are now many, extremely high performance, ultralight and microlight craft on the market, and many general civil aviation licensed pilots have switched to flying them. The reduced purchase dost and maintenance, coupled with the often breathtaking performance of these craft, has boosted popularity of the microlight as a sporting aircraft.

Several key sports, such as aerobatics and precision flying, now have special ultralight and microlight categories, which grow in popularity each year. These classes are proving to be a great favourite with the spectators, due to the incredible performance profile these small craft exhibit, quite literally often able to fly rings around their larger counterparts.

As manufacturing methods advance, and costs are reduced, more and more pilots are switching to microlight aircraft as an affordable, reliable and fun way to take to the skies. Certainly there has been no sector of the civil aviation industry which has witnessed a greater growth rate across the last two decades.