My question is why even try to register your plane LSA? The reg says as long as it meets LSA standard you can fly it with a sport pilot license. Even if the plane is kit or plans built you should not register it LSA or E-LSA because you will have to spend even more money to attend the LSA mechanics classes to work on it. If you build it register it experimental and then you can do all the maintanence on it yourself without classes and you can still fly it if it meets LSA standards with a sport pilots license.
David Mikesell 23597 N. Hwy 99 Acampo, CA 95220 Cell Phone 209-609-8774 Home Phone 209-339-4833 skyguy...@skyguynca.com www.skyguynca.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin & Bev Rainey" <crain...@cfl.rr.com> To: <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 5:40 PM Subject: KR> LSA alternative > To elaborate on Mark's comment, if working with wood and fiberglass is your thing, consider the Vision, which by all my observations is the next generation KR2S, and install a Corvair engine, and get a sweet flying airplane, plans built like the KR, glass like the KR but with a long wing version that also should fit nicely into LSA category. Subaru and GM 4.3V6 engines have been used in it as well so it is very adaptable to the task. > > No one has ever said the KR cannot fit the LSA, just that there are SO many examples that do not fit, you will have a hard row to hoe to prove to a DAR that it is LSA qualified. The FAA commentary that I read specifically mentioned that they are watching for aircraft that have previously been certified in other categories to be modified into LSA, and will aggressively prevent this. The purpose of the category is not to give alternatives, but to regulate those aircraft that already fit the category and previously were not regulated. > > Having said that, changes made logically to ANY airframe which significantly change the flight characteristics in such a way as to comply with the LSA restrictions should be able to be proved to comply much the same way as someone who proves their modifications to an original design are safe. To the FAA, documentation is and always will be the most important thing: if you show can show where others did the same thing and got a particular result, then it will be a much easier sell. > > BUT, bare in mind that any such changes DRASTICALLY effects the build time because now you are designing, building, troubleshooting, remaking, designing, troubleshooting, etc.... as you go. Good luck. > > Colin Rainey > N96TA > KSFB > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
