Hi Fred,
You put this well, and I agree with everything you say here - and the way you say it. I think my original comment related more to the issues surrounding C's and D's and arbitrary weight limitations and original certifications, etc. In any event on that issue I stand by my 'over thinking' statement. But again, it's just my opinion and that is what this forum is about. Safe flying, Roy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 7:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ercoupe-tech] Proposed rule changes ie is it a C or a D Importance: Low 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] <mailto:thesumak%40aol.com> 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.
