Netters, True statement Dave. And it make a good case for CYA. Whenever I'm dealing with he "administrator" I like to follow-up with a e-mail confirming the conversation and print off both the my letter and the answer and I tuck them in the file cabnet. The idea being make sure you have food to feed your shark if the need should arise. I installed a ballistic chute on a Power Para Chute (PPC). The manufacturer did not endorse it but the owner insisted. I gather written statements from the MFG and the Owner for my files, gave the owner the rocket to arm the system once it left the shop and sent the required paperwork to Ballistic. The statement I put on the invoice simply stated that the system was installed without the MFG's approval in accordance with the installation instructions from Ballistic as a decoration only and has not been armed for actual use. Oh, and if you plan to install one in your KR, make sure you fire proof the hole real good and seal it from the cockpit area. It is a rocket that deploys the chute and the exhuast from it doesn't care whats behind it. Ed Larsen Larsen Airpark (43G) . In a message dated 3/2/2007 12:51:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
After reading one of John Yodice stories about someone the FAA and then NTSB put it to, if you change even a washer on your plane and you hold the A&P for the plane (builder) you are better off to bit the bullet and ask the FSDO if you need a new fly-off period and do it if who every answer the phone says to... you are protected then from future actions by the bureaucrats because you followed the bureaucrats directive. -dave <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.
