Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Ultralights are now "Aircraft"

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "Reggie" <Reggie@...> wrote:
>
> Co to Yahoo news to see the whole article.
>
> excerpt:
> The ultralight's use by smugglers has become so ubiquitous
> that Congress recently updated their definition of "aircraft"
> to include ultralights and,
> therefore, make those caught smuggling drugs with them subject
> to the same
> penalties as other aircraft under the Tariff Act of 1930.
>
> The legislation, known
> as the Ultralight Aircraft Smuggling Prevention Act of 2012,
> was the last bill sponsored by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
> (D-Arizona) before she resigned from
> Congress after surviving an apparent assassination attempt
> last January
>


Here is my response already posted posted elsewhere. Don't get your panties in a bunch. Thanks.

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Gosh this is an old story. I first wrote about it in June 2010. The change is ONLY for the purposes of regulation and enforcement of laws against drugs smuggling it has nothing to do with any of you unless you are bringing contraband into the USA with an ultralight. It does not supersede or change any rules adopted by the FAA.

Ordinary flying ultralight = vehicle

Get caught smuggling drugs ultralight= aircraft

Its purpose is "To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to include ultralight aircraft under the definition of aircraft for purposes of the aviation smuggling provisions under that Act."


http://www.eaa.org/lightplaneworld/articles/1006_f16s.asp







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