Good post. Just one point or question: you say a few times that only a judge can give a final legal ruling, undoubtedly true. But practically speaking, for most of us, won't a FSDO inspector's opinion be our final ruling? I n other words: someone has or is considering buying an Ercoupe which is in the LSA legal gray zone. They want to know if it's LSA compliant or not. Before it comes to a judge making a ruling, an FAA employee would issue a ruling I presume. For most of us that would be the end of it, whichever way the ruling went. I expect only a few diehards would pursue the issue to a court of law (and even then wouldn't it pass through an administrative law judge's hands first?) Ralph Finch
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Winters Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 11:46 AM To: 'Richard Green'; [email protected] Subject: RE: [ercoupe-tech] CD and D Models LSA ELIGIBILITY....READ THIS THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE. IN FACT THIS IS LEGAL UNADVICE. (Sort of like an UN-birthday party for Alice in Wonderland.) <snip> What the "plain meaning" of the LSA rules really is can only be definitively discerned AFTER some judge tells us what the plain meaning is, and not before. Apparently, that has not yet happened. (Even FAA opinions are not legally binding when a judge gets hold of them.) . <http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=19286938/grpspId=1705340085/msgI d=3363/stime=1201463304/nc1=4767085/nc2=3848621/nc3=4507179> <snip>
