Bill Wightman
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How can you say this when Van's does not build the planes. Each plane built will be different because each is built different. There are not two of his planes built the same.
Norman, The overwhelming majority of RV's are built with differences small enough, or irrelevant to changing the ops limits. In the rare case where builder modifications require the kit manufacturer's limits to be changed, the new ops limits must be substantiated by some sort of rational evaluation or test program.
Ops limits must be established for every US registered civil aircraft: FAR 91.9. In our case, those limits largely come from Vans Aircraft simply because they've done the analysis - they have the test data - they know their product. We use those numbers unless we have reason to modify them, which is rarely the case.