Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Transponders in NORDO aircraft

>I wish what you are thinking was the way it was. It isn't. We are barely in mode C

>veil here at Zephyrhills (by about 4 miles) and we have to have a

>transponder on every trike here even the ones that are pull start R-503.
>Abid

 

 

Thanks for that Abid.

I'm going to be building another airplane again (soon). So I find the different interpretations of the FAA requirements interesting.

 

Now if these guys already had a battery to run their radio, but were trying to skirt the rules by leaving their charging circuit disconected, then we're talking a whole different ballgame. They DO have an electrical system and would have to comply. We agree on that.  But I took the FAA's A&P course and believe me, an electrical system requires much more than a charging coil on the engine.  ;)

The guys without any battery or radio in a pullstart 503 I'm having difficulty understanding.

 

I'd still like to see the hand-down or whatever you said it was from the FAA, because I think you guys may be reading more into it than is really there if you're installing transponders in aircraft that have no electrical system at all.

It's up to you, of course.  But unless I had something in writing from the FAA saying that FAR 91.215(b) doesn't apply,  I'd be inclined to believe that we can still operate NORDO aircraft the same way we did before LSA's came along. Why would it be different now?

 

I'm not saying your interpretation is wrong, I'm just asking to see the FAA's handout. Maybe they have a perfectly good explanation... I'd like to see it.

 

Thanks,

Rick

15 miles outside the Mode C, but a frequent visitor

 

 

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