Both of you are right.
Even when we enjoy a relatively benign regulatory environment, nothing prevents
us from asking for corrections to illogical regulations. And now we have the
opportunity.
I would like to ask the PPs in this list to support the Sport Pilots by
sending comments to the NPRM, asking for the Sport Pilots to be allowed to do
preventive maintenance in their owned airplanes, and to allow Sport Pilots to
flight test their airplanes after maintenance, just like PPs currently do.
It is my understanding that PPs who let their medical expire and revert to
Sport Pilots are not subject to either of these limitations, and can continue
doing their own preventive maintenance. They continue being PPs for that. PPs
don't need this regulation to be changed, so any help we the Sport Pilots get
from PPs, will come from the greatness and unselfishness of their big hearts.
Thanks
Eliacim
----- Original Message -----
From: Ed Burkhead
To: ety
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 8:10 PM
Subject: RE: [ercoupe-tech] FAA making changes to Sport Pilot and LSA rules
Wayne wrote:
> What is really funny is the notion that the type of pilot
> certificate you have has anything at all to do with how
> qualified you are to do any kind of maintenance on any
> kind of airplane. Some day I hope I get smart enough
> to where these regulations will make sense to me.
Agreed. But, we must remember . . .
Regulations were not created in a thoughtful, logical way. They grew,
un-naturally, over a long time. They suffered the horrendous faults of being
created by two faulty processes:
1.. evolution
2.. intelligent design by a sub-ape-intelligence (multiple committees)
So far, we're lucky that what we've got isn't worse (like Hartmut tells us of
the German regulations).
We're blessed, though, because some of the committee participants do have our
interests at heart and occasionally manage to get improvements through the
system (like some of these).
All the best,
Ed
