Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Weight problems, was: is everyone here to bash Skycatchers?

On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 12:06:57PM -0700, Richard Williams wrote:
> AOPA is an opinion, granted, a very high level opinion.
> The FARs are the final/guiding criteria.

I'd suggest you get a copy of the AOPA page. It's based on opinions AOPA got
from the FAA's General Counsel. It's as close to authoritative as it gets.

And there's nothing that says which seat the pilot in command must fly from.
(Except, possibly, the aircraft's POH or type certificate (if one exists).)
As long as he can perform his duties adequately, then it's fine. If you can
fly as PIC and do everything from the back seat, then there's no reason you
can't do it that way for the examiner. 91.109(a) *still* applies, though. I
can't guess if a CFI will overlook the issue if he has access to all fo the
controls; I'm not sure I would, but then I'm an airplane CFI-SP, not a WSC
instructor, and don't know enough about that to have an opinion.
--
Jay Maynard, K5ZC, PP-ASEL, CFI-SP http://www.conmicro.com
http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
Fairmont, MN (KFRM) (Yes, that's me!)
AMD Zodiac CH601XLi N55ZC http://www.tronguy.net/N55ZC.shtml

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