Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group LSA Experimental

Good to know that correction for S-LSA to E-LSA has been accomplished. That was really annoying.
Abid

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, Bob Comperini <bob@...> wrote:
>
> On 06:41 AM 10/31/2011, apollonorthamerica wrote:
> >That is wrong.
> >There are E-LSA's being built now.
> >They were always supposed to be built.
>
> There are 3 kinds of "E-LSA", per 21.191(i).
>
> (1) The "transitioning ultralights"... A person can no longer register a plane in this category
>
> (2) E-LSA built to "consensus standards"... this is the one where a company who produced at least one SLSA, can sell the equivalent plane as an E-LSA. (Such as the RV kit)
>
> (3) SLSAs that are converted to E-LSA.
>
>
> >I am not sure if there is an update to the rules yet but there was a problem with a S-LSA converted to E-LSA. On such an aircraft owners just couldn't go doing modifications themselves without an A&P sign-off.
>
> That was another screwup from the FAA, and has been corrected already.
>
> Basically, the FAA "forgot" to change part 43.1 to accommodate SLSAs that were converted to ELSA. This has been corrected already.
>
>
> --
> Bob Comperini
> e-mail: bob@...
> WWW: http://www.fly-ul.com
>

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