Changes and Mixed Blessings

I'm really thinking about letting my medical expire next month. And then carrying on flying light sport and gliders. So I'd wind up getting rid of the CherOH kee. Which would be too bad. But I have a buyer for the CherOH kee. My nephew George. He'd rather buy it 2 years down the road, but I may be ready to sell sooner than that. So what kind of LSA should I get? I'm thinking of an aeronca 7AC. A Champ. Or maybe a 7FC Tri Champ. Remember those? The Tri may not be light sport. Some had 3 seats, and were too heavy.I can let my medical lapse and fly light sport without it. As long as I havn't been denied a medical. With my two special issuances involved, the FAA might need more info about something. A glitch. The AME, who is giving me the medical is not supposed to let me walk away from a medical I have begun by turning in the application. This light sport don't-need-medical is a tricky little slope if you are like me and are getting older and already have some challanges. The bottom line seems to be that eventually I will lose my medical. If I am denied the medical, then I can't fly under light sport rules because of the denial. And if I pass the medical which requires lots of work on my part gathering paperwork and tests from from different sources over six weeks, and then I still have to take the medical every year (due to the special issuances.) If I am denied, I can try to jump through even more hoops and get the medical back. Then I might not want to risk another medical for fear of being denied. I guess since I know that sooner or later I'll be denied, I'm thinking, let it expire, then I know I safely have Light Sport. I could still do a new log book for a new pilot now and then in the "Champ" or whatever I will own. I could still instruct a bit if I wanted to. I really hesitate to instruct because I feel that the students should go to the young guys coming up, and the career CFI's who need the work for a living. I had my chance to do that instructing and it was a great experience and an entry level into a career that served me well. It's someone else's turn now. I was talking about this dilema of Airman Medical vs Light Sport Rules with a bud of mine. He said that one of my regular trips is up to Dover to have the plane worked on, or fly gliders. He asked if that would work just as well in a "Champ". I know what he's saying, and he's right. It would be just as good--even better. I hate to give up the 140 and all that kind of flying. I thought it would be for another ten years maybe. But this is life...... We watch our parents die..... Then we die. In the face of that, I may have to go Light Sport. Most of my "aviation" world is riding a mower anyway. GAI ::::+::::