Geez vesta, stick to the Navy, at least you have some knowledge of the subject......it's obvious that you know nothing about aviation.........pilots that are not instrument rated, avoid clouds like the plague, and even then, they have a small amount of training in instrument flight......also NO AIRCRAFT can be certified airworthy without at least a "needle, ball, and airspeed", which will tell you (along with your compass) whether you're upside down or not.......
WRONG......you can't be issued a private license until you are 16 years of age.......you can fly with an instructor or another licensed pilot before that age, but no license. JFK Jr. was an idiot.....he let his ego get in the way of common sense, and made (nearly) every rookie mistake in the book on that flight......he really worked hard to earn what he got......it's just a shame that he took passengers with him.....
Ultralights typically carry enough fuel for no more than a two-hour flight, and they cruise at between 25 and 45 MPH.......with a maximum range of 60 miles, you are not going to make any long-distance clandestine flights, not to mention they make a lot of noise, which makes them easy to find, and are limited to flight during daylight hours.
If ultralights were even remotely useful in smuggling drugs, the cartels would have been using them a long time ago.
Not hard to catch when you can ride a bicycle faster than they can fly.......
I really must be bored, I actually replied to a vesta thread....... 
doc
You are right as usual Doc, only thing I know about Today's advances in private air craft I have is going to flyins and checking out the ultra lights for sale and talking to the people that fly them.
Small town next door to us has a 4 day fly-in and all kinds of craft show up. Only time in 15 years that I know of there was just one accident to a UL and I blame the beer waggon for that.
Crazy SOB's, these people often build their own with power from a snowmobile engine, just waiting to see how they can power one, and they will experiment using a motor from a jet Ski.
So I saw the possibility of using them in the drug trade here on the coast. Cigar boats off load drugs from off shore boats, head for a stretch of land with a small pier, off the cargo into one or two UL and fly it inland 30-40 miles and stash it to be delivered by other means. One can hop skip and jump most anywhere, sort of like the old time water bucket brigade to fight fires.
Got to know I come from a family of River Rats that smuggled in booze from Canada and were smart enough to spend their money on inside plumbing and Central heating for their homes.
Small batches, not the big time stuff, simple life, nothing to call attention to themselves. Some of the wealthiest family's lived in homes covered in tar paper, town tax man took one look and they paid the least in taxes. Inside was a different story, and when it came time for the kids to go to college the story went around that the kid had won a scholarship.
Heading up the coast to the Bay of Fundy small towns with some of the least sea worthy lobster boats at mooring, BUT if that scow is such a wreck why does it have top of the line radar equipment on the top of the wheel house???
Yupo, water front towns = smuggling of one sort or another, fact of life. Corruption at every turn, been this way since the ancient city's in the Med. began trading thousands of years ago.
Fascinating for me to research the area and the life my family survived 200+ years ago to today. So some where in my DNA when I first saw the UL and the possibility's of use other then pleasure, it clicked, sea ,air and land.
Wasn't that long ago when on the interstate 18 wheel rigs were pulled over for smuggling cheap cigarettes up from Maryland. ------------Only thing cheaper were the old time " Sea Stores" the sailors brought home and smuggled off base.
