RE: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group How to Tell if Aircraft is really LSA

Yep..which means all those guys buying ercoupes with rudder pedals…….aren’t flying Light Sport Aircraft.

 

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From: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of dongeneda2000
Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 9:06 PM
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group How to Tell if Aircraft is really LSA

 

 

That would seem to indicate that lets say I bought a 415C Ercoupe, relicensed it experimental due to some fairly minor changes. Even though it still met all the LSA criteria, I would not be able to fly it as a sport pilot then since it was changed?

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, Bob Comperini <bob@...> wrote:
>
>
> >The definition of a LSA, amongst other things, say that the plane can not ever have been certificated in any other catagory.
>
> The definition of the Experimental-LSA category says that. That's an airworthiness restriction. That doesn't change the generic definition of 14 CFR 1.1.
>
>
> >True, a SP pilot can fly a plane that meets the limitations of a LSA,
> >However, that does not make that plane a LSA.
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> Semantics here, I think. if an aircraft meets the definitions, it is a "light sport aircraft" (14 CFR 1.1 says so). If you want to call it a "light sport aircraft", or if you want to just say "my plane meets the definition of a light sport aircraft", that's fine.
>
> --
> Bob Comperini
> e-mail: bob@...
> WWW: http://www.fly-ul.com
>

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