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Can an Aero club you use a 12 S-LSA for PPL training (US or Australia )?

 

[Mel]

In US, yes. Australia, don't know. I can't see why not.

 

[rgmwa]

An RV-12 S-LSA could be used for PPL training over here (see Cl 6.1.2): http://www.casa.gov.au/wcmswr/_assets/main/rules/1998casr/021/021c41.pdf
Unfortunately with our dollar currently down around $0.76US, importing a factory built RV-12 would be an expensive exercise. With the exchange rate, shipping, customs etc, I'm guessing you could be up for around AUD $175k to import a US$125k aircraft.

 

[J.Coles]

Hi

If you email me I will give you Jims contact details in Whitianga. He will be able to answer your questions. There are two RV12 in Whitanga. One was built for private use and is registered the same as mine as a Special Category Amateur Built Aircraft. This is like the GA category and is where you would register a homebuilt aircraft such as all the other RV's.

The other RV12 was built as a micro light. This was a school project supervised by Jim. That plane is now leased to the local aero club for flight instruction. Jim is supervising a second school built RV12 at the moment.

The person in charge of building the S-LSA planes in the US, Wally I think, visited Jim recently to discuss what they would need to change in their set up in the US to enable them to bring the S-LSA into NZ. The big concern for NZ conditions is the priming of the aircraft.

I think as mentioned above cost might be an issue. Certainly you might enjoy circuit flying at about a 9 litres per hour.

Cheers
Julian 120316