"Will the authorities not allow you to test you aircraft to determine if it meets the requirements. It seems absurd that they disqualify your KR based on information from a totally different airplane and even yours with a non-calibrated and questionable ASI system not even knowing the temp and pressure altitude. I've never flown an airplane where the ASI seemed anyway near accurate at the stall. Isn't that a bit like the judge accepting your ex wife's side of the story in a divorce settlement? Nothing against ex wives but hey.............
Larry Flesner" Hi Larry Alas no - the aircraft has to be registered in an airworthiness category before it can fly. I would like to register it as a Class One Microlight (like all of the KR-2's in NZ). The corollary of this is that after it is so registered, the CAA need never have anything to do with the aeroplane ever again. It doesn't even need a flight permit - only an annual inspection which I can do myself if I can't find another local inspector. This is good for me and surely good for the Authority as it is less administrative nuisance. The CAA however, have suggested that I register it as 'Special Category - Amateur Built,' which is more or less what it was when it last flew. Now unless the Authority are prepared to accept the original airworthiness certificate as being non-terminating - and I don't believe it was - a new can of worms opens for which the Authority have not provided any direction. Long story short, to be registered as 'Special Category - Amateur Built' - the way the rules are currently written - I would need to declare that I have built 51% of the aeroplane. Which I did not. The implication now is that I need to dismantle the aircraft to rebuild 51% of it and so be able to apply for this categorisation. Which is of course ludicrous. Not to mention the axiomatic burden of additional cost which comes with any association with CAA bureaucracy. So you are of course correct - the situation is absurd. If the aeroplane is incapable of stalling at 45 knots indicated or below then I will pull my head in and do as asked. If however, there is weight of evidence to suggest that the designer's stalling speed is correct then I am not the sort of pussy that accepts a sour bowl of milk! Thanks for your interest Kiwi
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