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 Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 9:43 am Post subject: The one and only reason for the Sport Pilot Rule; was Airpor |
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No, it wasn't fat ultralights, fat pilots who couldn't pass a medical, bad training, good training, EAA, what the manufacturers wanted or didn't want, or anything else dreamed up on this list. It was, simply, that someone in government asked someone else, "Say, did you know we have around (you can pick a number if you don't like mine) 30,000 aircraft out there for which we have no records, no traceability, and no way to find should we need to?"
An audible gasp is heard around the room.
This is from Earl Lawrence, EAA's representative to the FAA and member of the ASTM committee that wrote the rule.
That some other needs were met, not met, addressed, not addressed, determined with mathematical precision, or guessed at with a divining rod, is completely beside the point.
Until 9/11/2001 there was no compelling political driving force to amend the FAR's for a new category of aircraft or airmen. On 9/12/2001 there was.
Rick
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 12:03 pm Post subject: The one and only reason for the Sport Pilot Rule; was Airpor |
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Dana, The FAA figures the average person weighs 190 lb (recently raised from 170 lb). Just as a point of argument, I imagine either weight of dynamite or C-4 could do plenty of damage. Sure seems to work with cars, trucks, and even speed boats in Iraq and elsewhere. At least as far back as 1954 Paul Poberezny (sp) was calling for some kind of license less than a PPL. FAA had already made the attempt once before with the recreational license and the primary category, both of which which went nowhere. That FAA was trying to find a solution to the problem of unregistered, non complying aircraft, I do not deny. That there was no political will to actually do anything with sport pilot until the aftermath of 9/11 is unassailable.
Rick
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Dana Hague <d-m-hague(at)comcast.net (d-m-hague(at)comcast.net)> wrote:
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At 01:42 PM 10/12/2008, Richard Girard wrote:
| Quote: | Until 9/11/2001 there was no compelling political driving force to amend the FAR's for a new category of aircraft or airmen. On 9/12/2001 there was.
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That might make sense except for two things: First, the SP rulemaking process was in motion before 9/11/2001. And second, no matter how ignorant senators and congressmen may be of the basic physics involving fat ultralights, the people in the FAA certainly know that a 2 seat ultralight (or any small airplane) poses no terrorist threat.
-Dana
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