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Hi Bob,
Please understand that I wish you and the other three very good luck with
your program. Some Couper's are very capable of maintaining their own
aircraft just as the builder of a homebuilt would be. We do also have a
somewhat larger number who do not have the knowledge or skill and they try
to do things that they should not do today with out help and supervision
even if there were no rules of any kind. Yes some of these aircraft are
very hard for the IA and A/P's to deal with as the problem comes when a
good guy buys one from a fast talking person and then the poor guy finds
out that there are many changes and modifications that are not right that
have to be fixed or documented and then the new owner has to pay a great
deal of money for an annual inspection and do with out his Coupe for a
long
time while it gets cleaned up. It is sad but we seem to hear about two or
three of these each year on this list and I am sure that there are more
who
are to embarrassed to say anything about their problem.
Good luck with your new adventure.
Best regards,
Vern
Bob Taylor
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Hi Vern,
I'm O/M Coupe # 3.5 The paperwork's not finished yet. You're wrong about
the no regulation in O/M. All the work has to be done to acceptable
aviation standards. And guess what? The bible for that, according to
Transport Canada is the FAA's very own AC43.13-1b. When you talk about
buying a pig in a poke, you must realize that all O/M a/c must have what
we call the 6X's. That is an X must be stamped, etched, engraved,
whatever, on the data plate after the model number and the serial number
of the a/c, on the engine id plate after the model and the serial
numbers and on the propeller after the model and serial numbers. Now
granted you can be sold something that is not what it's supposed to be
but that can happen with anything if the seller has no scruples, be it
an airplane or a used car. (no! don't tell me car dealers are
dishonest!) And finally, after it's all finished, Transport will inspect
it just as a homebuilt a/c. So maybe we can't use American airspace yet.
That's just a matter of paperwork between our governments just as
experimental aircraft were. What we're doing is putting old airplanes
back into the air instead of turning them into pop cans. And sometimes
better than new. I've seen the work that Cessna did on the C140's. I've
seen the work on my 'coupe that the factory did. My work is better. Ask
the AME (that's Canadian for AP/AI) that's working with me.
Good tailwinds to to ya'all
Bob Taylor
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