Roy, In my opinion, in regards to the maintenance issue, NO we are not "over thinking" it. It doesn't make sense, plain and simple. There is absolutely no reason that a sport pilot should not be able to do preventive maintenance on his own airplane, just because the airplane is a certificated plane. As a sport pilot, I would be able to do preventive maintenance on any of the new $100,000+ LSA's, but I can't even change the oil on the Ercoupe that I spent over a year restoring. What sense does that make? How much thinking does it take to see that it makes no sense at all? No brainer.
What documented training does a private pilot recieve that I have not? NONE. I have logged over 1800 hours working on my Coupe, but that isn't good enough to change the oil? Yet, if I have a private pilot fly my plane around the patch, he becomes a co-operator, and can do preventive maintenance on my plane (which he probably knows nothing about) Come on. I would hope that anyone would be able to see that this rule is unfair, and makes no sense. As a sport pilot, I would appreciate the help of everyone in the aviation community to get an unfair rule changed. But thats just my opinion. Fred ---- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ============= Hi Bill I’m just a grunt, but given the information below, it seems clear that you own a 415C and I would suggest that further validation is not required. As I recall, you have an e-mail from the FAA that confirms this? As I look over our comments over the last couple of days on this and particularly the preventive maintenance issue, I think Roy was the most eloquent when he asked the simple question: Are we over thinking this one? Thanks Roy, Bill Bill said: In my case, a former owner thought that because the C-75 in his 415C was converted to a C-85 it converted it to a 415D and he filled out his registration and his bill of sale to the next owner as a 415D. There is no documentation on file with the FAA of this change and no airworthiness certificate change. A later owner registered it as a 415C and it was sold to me as such, long before the light-sport issue arose, and it is registered as such.
