My point wasn't that you could certify the plane under the new light sport aircraft category. The way I read the regulation you can't certify a plans built plane, it has to be a kit and assembled per manufacturer's instructions. And the instructions and kits will have to meet consensus standards. But if you certify it under the existing experimental amateur built category and it won't fly faster than 138mph (and stalls below 45kts), then a sport pilot should be able to fly it.
I definitely agree that it was designed to regulate the "ultralights". The explanations accompanying the final rule make that pretty clear. -- wesley scott k...@spottedowl.biz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dana Overall" <bo12...@hotmail.com> > > > My case in point was, and still is, putting different wings, different > engines, speed brakes, hanging things off the KR to slow it down, flat front > cowlings.......the list goes on, and a promise of "that's all she'll do" > will fall far short of the requirements for aircraft certification under the > sport pilot regulations as adopted. As much as we would like to > inexpensively build the KR, there exists a very large void between what we > see as a pie in sky available avenue and the reality contained within the > sport pilot aircraft certification process. The sport pilot deal, in my > opinion, was initiated to bring the illegal "ultralights" under FAA control > in order to assemble all the various ultralight "licensing" (I use that term > loosely) associations under one umbrella. It will have some spinoffs, but > won't affect most on this board, wish is would but I still have a bad taste > in my mouth. >
