I give up. All I'm trying to say is an Ercoupe will never be anything but a normal category aircraft as far as the certification goes. Some of them just happen to meet the requirements of LSA and can be flown by sport pilots, but that's as far as it goes.
I still bet I can differentiate between a plane and a pilot in a dark hangar... John Cooper Skyport Services 518 797-3064 www.skyportservices.net -----Original Message----- From: Ed Burkhead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 4:02 PM To: 'John Cooper'; efy Subject: RE: [ercoupe-flyin] Messin' with the FAA John wrote: > LSA is a certification category. Ah, that's the point! "LSA" ISN'T a certification category. Special Light Sport Aircraft IS a certification category as defined by the regulation for Sport Pilot (which actually amends a bunch of different regs but is concisely summarized here: http://sportpilot.org/learn/sp_rule.pdf and is elucidated by FAA Order 8130.2F CHG 3 http://tinyurl.com/3br6lv which implements FAR 21.191 http://tinyurl.com/2mcqjz You wrote: > Specifically at issue are the parts and maintenance > requirements, as well as the pilot rating. What I was > referring to I is that there are no certificated aircraft that > are eligible to be lsa certificated. (Clearas mud, right?) All aircraft which meet the LSA definition in Part 1, section 1.1 definitions may be flown by a Sport Pilot acting as pilot in command no matter how they are certified. That's the key. And you'd better believe I got a headache parsing those regs and orders! In 8130.2F chg 3, search down till you find the rules for certifying Special LSA and also the section for ELSA and read through them. Kevin, these terms must not be blurred. They are set out in the items listed above though you've got to take both two 500 mg Tylenol and at least 650 mg Asprin before you sit down to read them. (Take that last part from repeated experience. I helped the Sport Pilot and Sport Aircraft forums parse these things and we were finding things and citing them to each other for WEEKS! I certainly did not find the majority of the key features but I was first to find some of them.) Ed
