On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Mark Langford <n5...@hiwaay.net> wrote:
> But what I was fishing for is how those same questions are answered with > respect to LSA, > since that seems to be important to him. > There are many different flavors of LSA compared to Experimental-Amateur Built. Experimental is 51% or greater amateur built. The "builder of record" can get the repairman's certificate for that aircraft and do the annuals. Any owner can do any work on the aircraft, but only the holder of the repairman's certificate can do the annuals. LSA as a class includes a wide variety of completeness levels, from plans built on up through fully completed aircraft. It is only for these more fully completed aircraft that there are special LSA repairman's certificates. In the KR/LSA subgroup, these would only be plans built, so the aircraft would be licensed as Experimental-Amateur Built. During testing, the aircraft needs to be shown that it meets the performance qualifications (limitations) of the LSA class (<=138 mph maximum speed, <51 mph stall speed at gross weight and most critical c.o.g.). At the moment, there are no proven KR variants that meet all those requirements, so a KR/LSA is uncharted territory. Since even Vans had to do some tweaking/modification to their LSA candidate, it would probably be a good idea to have someone with a private pilot's license do the testing. If you want to build your plane and do the initial test flying as a Light Sport pilot, you would probably be better off with a proven LSA plane combination. -- Regards, RonB
