a DAR question

N787R · #1 03-06-2008, 04:49 PM

I am building my RV7 in a hanger at KRHV.
KRHV is not a suitable airport for initial flite.

I plan to truck my craft to E16 and do initial flight and phase one operation there.

Question : Can I call DAR to inspect and issue AW while in KRHV? or do I have to wait until I take it to E16 ?

Thanks

Mel · #2 03-06-2008, 05:33 PM

Personally I would want to wait and inspect the airplane at the airport where it will be flown. I don't want the airplane disassembled and reassembled after my inspection. This process would not allow me to inspect for correct assembly, rigging, safety wire and many other things necessary to determine if the airplane is "in a condition for safe operation".

arffguy · #3 03-06-2008, 06:53 PM

Maybe you could takeoff from RHV, circle for a few minutes and then fly it to E16 to fly off the rest of the test period. May not be the smartest thing to do but I have seen it done three times at my home airport.

yakdriver · #4 03-06-2008, 07:08 PM

Plus legally you can't do anything major to the airplane after it is inspected until you get your repairman certificate. So that might take a few weeks to get. Don

Mel · #5 03-06-2008, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by yakdriver

Plus legally you can't do anything major to the airplane after it is inspected until you get your repairman certificate. So that might take a few weeks to get. Don

The repairman certificate has nothing to do with maintenance. It only allows you to do the annual condition inspection.

yakdriver · #6 03-06-2008, 07:34 PM

Mel, If he took the airplane apart and reassembled it after the airworthyness was issued and before he got the repairman certificate wouldn't he have to have an A&P sign it off? Don

kenmorris · #7 03-06-2008, 07:42 PM

Why is KRHV a bad choice?

Ron Lee · #8 03-06-2008, 07:42 PM

Why is your airport not suitable? I see a lot of daily flights but I assume that there are days/times when traffic is low. Is it because of traffic into and out of San Jose?

Rick S. · #9 03-06-2008, 08:09 PM

OK....add a little to the fire. I have a very nice hangar at North Las Vegas (KVGT)...I've been told I CAN'T do my phase one there. Can the local airport authority (Clark County Department of Aviation) tell me I can't or can the DAR specify my phase one limitations? Does the FAA dictate or does the local authority have control?

Kinda twists my knickers since the local authority sucks almost $300 bucks a month outta me and my hangar partner just for the glorious dirt our facility sits on, plus $1100 a year personal property tax on our tin shed, well not really a shed...pretty nice hangar. You would think we could use the airport for FLYING...must think were gonna screw the pooch on our first 40 hours...very frustrating to finish a project then have to find a place to fly off the hours, or should I say a place to get the inspection then fly off the hours.

Geico266 · #10 03-06-2008, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Rick S.

OK....add a little to the fire. I have a very nice hangar at North Las Vegas (KVGT)...I've been told I CAN'T do my phase one there. Can the local airport authority (Clark County Department of Aviation) tell me I can't or can the DAR specify my phase one limitations? Does the FAA dictate or does the local authority have control?

Kinda twists my knickers since the local authority sucks almost $300 bucks a month outta me and my hangar partner just for the glorious dirt our facility sits on, plus $1100 a year personal property tax on our tin shed, well not really a shed...pretty nice hangar. You would think we could use the airport for FLYING...must think were gonna screw the pooch on our first 40 hours...very frustrating to finish a project then have to find a place to fly off the hours, or should I say a place to get the inspection then fly off the hours.

Rick,

NO. Clearly, KVGT is a Federally funded airport. If the local airport takes Federal monies for airport ANY improvement they cannot dictate what you can or cannot do there with aviation, as long as what you are doing is legal. They risk loosing all Federal funding (and having to pay back what they have received) if they bar you (or harass you) from the airport. Get ahold of the EAA legal people in OSH and they will give you FAA chapter & verse that you can lay on the airport board to settle them down. Be prepared for a fight. Politicians don't like to loose. You will be the target of harassment for a few years, which is also illegal. Don't back down from these power hungry mind midgets.