The USA were the only country to enforce a 3,000 hour life limit on Centrair
Pegase due to their interpretation of the maintenance manual of that aircraft
which had been translated from French to English. One page of the manual stated
3,000 hour life extension while another mentioned 3,000 life. When asked for a
ruling (by some nutcase who owned one in the USA), the FAA ruled on 3,000 life
instantly grounding all Pegase in that country with more than 3,000 hours. Many
were still flying in European clubs with more than 3,000 hours. That ruling in
the USA has only recently been overturned. The 2014 release of the Pegase
maintenance manual (in french) clearly states 3,000 hour life extension.
AFAIK there are 2 Pegase in Australia, mine and one in a Vic club (Benalla?).
Cheers,
Greg Wilson.
---- On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 05:08:39 +1100 Jim Staniforth
<staniforth...@yahoo.com> wrote ----
For reference, it isn't just GFA / CASA.
Even though EXP registration is much more common in the USA, FAA is not
interested in moving an aircraft to EXP for life extension purposes. It has of
course been tried with the Centrair Pegase.*
Under FAA regulations, an EXP aircraft can be flown by rated pilots only.
EXP two-seaters cannot be used for instruction or rides. Single-seat EXP can be
rented just like STD aircraft, or used for towing.
In my experience, registering and insuring FAA EXP is no different to STD.
Just different paperwork.
Jim
*The Pegase now has a life extension program thanks to the work primarily
of Bob Carlton.
...a Global Alternate Method Of Compliance (AMOC) that will raise the current
3,000 hour life limit on Centrair Pegase 101, 101P, 101A and 101AP gliders to
4,500 hours...
On 12/23/2014 5:41 AM, Mark Newton wrote:
49-5452-46e5-9771-3e6f7d4b1...@atdot.dotat.org" type="cite"> On 24 Dec
2014, at 12:27 am, Al Borowski <al.borow...@gmail.com> wrote: Is there
nothing like an 'Experimental' category in the glider world? It seems weird to
me that I can (in theory) jump into a home-designed ultralight powered with a
lawnmower motor, but can't operate a glider grounded due to a paperwork issue.
The issue is fraught. GFA can issue experimental C-of-A's (or could until an
audit a year or two ago, at any rate). But experimental aircraft can't be flown
for hire or reward, including training; so a club can't feasibly operate them.
CASA seems to take a dim view of an aircraft which meets a type certificate in
all requirements except service life being operated as experimental. Except
they're not consistent about it, because they obviously allow warbirds to
remain in service well past their design life. You could probably operate a
glider on an experimental C-of-A if it has a genuinely experimental feature,
and if it was operated privately. Perhaps the IS28's at CQC wouldn't fit that
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