Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group LSR-I Course PIREP

As a lot of you know, back in December I converted my S-LSA Sky Arrow to an E-LSA. I did that so as to allow me to do my own maintenance and minor (or even major) alterations.

However, in order to do my own annual inspections, a 16-hour course "Light Sport Repairman - Inspection" was required. I signed up for one with Mike Huffman at http://www.sportaviationspecialties.com in Lawrenceville, GA and took the course this weekend.

Anyway, VERY informative. As a CFI, some of the "Theory of Flight" and W&B stuff was just a review, but lots of valuable information about the inspection process, regulations involved, hardware requirements, that sort of thing. The last few hours were "hands-on", doing a differential compression test, using and calibrating torque wrenches, testing fabric, and examining cables and safety wire for appropriate standards - that sort of thing.

Now I just have to take my completion certificate in to the local FSDO to have the actual license issued.

Anyway, highly recommended if you have an E-LSA and want to do your own inspections.

Note: this only allows you to do annual inspections on a E-LSA that you own. It has little to do with actual maintenance, which can already be done by anyone on an Experimental.

Fast Eddie B. (Ed Benson - Mineral Bluff, GA)
Sky Arrow 600 E-LSA • N467SA

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