Yeah, but does it require any flavor of a pilot's license. "Any operator OR pilot" lends me to believe this is a waiver to that. This form is a COA waiver to the 333 exemption rules if flying below 400 feet and is "Issued to any operator of a valid 333 exemption". I am not clear on what is clear from what you quoted. TBH, I don't even know if it's saying what I'm reading is the way I think I'm reading it or not.
I also just pulled this directly from the FAA website
It would seem to me that that separate COA would be the pilot's license that is necessary to fly within the airspace required by the different types of license. For an extreme example, a Sport Pilot license does not have the authority to request to ascend to 15,000 feet.
I have YET to hear anything uniform here. I don't claim to have the answers but the ones that seem to, are all saying different things, and with the exception of DAP who said a Sport or Rec license is just saying "Pilot's license" which is a bit of a generic term since there are several. And there are "ground school" certificates contrary to what some have told me here. I have read about them in existence and I have read several times on the FAA website as I am trying to learn what I thought I knew but didn't it mention that phrase exactly. It considers "hours of education" and "hours of flight time" two separate things and every license and certificate have a variable amount of ground and air time to achieve the license or whatever certificate and no, engineers, tower people, and mechanics all must receive various forms of certificates that don't require a single hour of air training so at the very least, I am sure that not all certificates require flight. In fact, I think out of all of them, the only ones that do are sport, recreation, pilots, private, commercial, airliner, and transport and all other do not.
Are people actually reading the FAA rules or just inbreeding information?
Either way, I'm finding everyone's level of assiduity is certainly suspect considering nobody is saying the exact same thing.
I DO NOT CLAIM to know the answers but I am certainly not listening to anyone here over the FAA. I'd be happy to hear interpretations as it's, even though in plain English, not exactly easy to rifle through and understand but I don't claim to.