Hey, Kevin, don't volunteer me for anything! I'm already up to my ears
in volunteering.
Syd
kgassert wrote:
OK, if you have done the homework and figured it out (my problem is
trying to use common since to understand it) then I nominate you to
run with it. My suggestion would be to work with the EOC and Earl
Lawrence to begin with. Syd and Marv Dunlap would be good resources
also.
Kevin
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<mailto:ercoupe-flyin%40yahoogroups.com>, "Ed Burkhead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> John wrote:
> > LSA is a certification category.
>
> Ah, that's the point! "LSA" ISN'T a certification category.
Special Light
> Sport Aircraft IS a certification category as defined by the
regulation for
> Sport Pilot (which actually amends a bunch of different regs but is
> concisely summarized here:
> http://sportpilot.org/learn/sp_rule.pdf
<http://sportpilot.org/learn/sp_rule.pdf>
>
> and is elucidated by FAA Order 8130.2F CHG 3
http://tinyurl.com/3br6lv <http://tinyurl.com/3br6lv>
> which implements FAR 21.191 http://tinyurl.com/2mcqjz
<http://tinyurl.com/2mcqjz>
>
> You wrote:
> > Specifically at issue are the parts and maintenance
> > requirements, as well as the pilot rating. What I was
> > referring to I is that there are no certificated aircraft that
> > are eligible to be lsa certificated. (Clearas mud, right?)
>
> All aircraft which meet the LSA definition in Part 1, section 1.1
> definitions may be flown by a Sport Pilot acting as pilot in
command no
> matter how they are certified. That's the key.
>
> And you'd better believe I got a headache parsing those regs and
orders! In
> 8130.2F chg 3, search down till you find the rules for certifying
Special
> LSA and also the section for ELSA and read through them.
>
> Kevin, these terms must not be blurred. They are set out in the
items
> listed above though you've got to take both two 500 mg Tylenol and
at least
> 650 mg Asprin before you sit down to read them. (Take that last
part from
> repeated experience. I helped the Sport Pilot and Sport Aircraft
forums
> parse these things and we were finding things and citing them to
each other
> for WEEKS! I certainly did not find the majority of the key
features but I
> was first to find some of them.)
>
> Ed
>
