jim miller
Well Known Member
After learning from my previous post about how Exp amateur built are licensed , with no relationship to the consensus standards that SLSA's must conform to I talked again with my local DAR. He said that even though nothing has changed with how exp amateur builts are licensed he was in the future not going to license any exp amateur built and allow the builder to set his gross wt. His take it or leave it rules are as follows: For any experimental amateur built two place he will take empty weight plus 190 lbs for each seat, plus full fuel, plus baggage desired and add it up and that is the minium allowed gross wt. In other words you must meet SLSA standards for your exp amateur built even though this is not in the rules.
My question is this some safety issue or going above and beyond to limit unnecessory happiness. In my case I weigh 155 and my wife weighs 115 and I would be happy with a pilot/passenger total of say 320lbs for my plane that I built and would as always ensure that I didn't exceed the rated gross weight.
For you DARS out there is this the standard rules for a experimental amateur built C of A? Isn't setting and operating at a lower gross, that is within the bounds of reason a more safer approach ? As they say out here in the field the FAA is not happy until you are not happy.
Thanks
Jim Miller
My question is this some safety issue or going above and beyond to limit unnecessory happiness. In my case I weigh 155 and my wife weighs 115 and I would be happy with a pilot/passenger total of say 320lbs for my plane that I built and would as always ensure that I didn't exceed the rated gross weight.
For you DARS out there is this the standard rules for a experimental amateur built C of A? Isn't setting and operating at a lower gross, that is within the bounds of reason a more safer approach ? As they say out here in the field the FAA is not happy until you are not happy.
Thanks
Jim Miller