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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:27 am    Post subject: What does it mean? Reply with quote

Can anyone put it in plain English? The FAA is proposing new fees and restrictions for aviation that would directly affect people that are thinking of building/flying their own LSA. True/False? Probable?

I've read some about it on the EAA website, and then ran across this tidbit on the RANS aircraft page and am having a little trouble making sense of it and how it will actually apply on an everyday basis.

(from here)

Quote:

SPECIAL NOTICE ON REGISTERING AIRCRAFT

ELSA ALERT: The FAA's Aircraft Registration office and the Light-Sport Aircraft Branch would like to remind all individuals converting aircraft into an Experimental Light-Sport Aircraft (ELSA) per FAR 21.191(i)(1)that there is a January 31, 2008 deadline to complete the ELSA aircraft registration, the ELSA airworthiness inspection, and the ELSA certification process.

The FAA will guarantee that your registration and certification packet will be reviewed and your ELSA aircraft inspected in sufficient time to meet the January 31, 2008 deadline if:
4. By August 15, 2007, you submit your aircraft registration (N-number) request to the Aircraft Registration office; and
5. By October 1,2007, you call your local ELSA DAR to schedule your ELSA airworthiness inspection; and
6. By November 30, 2007, you submit your aircraft airworthiness certification request packet to either a FAA Flight Standards District Office (FSDO), a FAA Manufacturing Inspection District office (MIDO), or your local ELSA DAR. Ask your local ELSA DAR which office should receive this packet.

If you fail to complete the above steps, the FAA cannot guarantee they'll be able to complete your ELSA registration and certification inspection process prior to the January 31, 2008 deadline.

If you need assistance in determining the exact requirements for converting your Ultralight into an ELSA, there are two industry sources available to answer any of your ELSA aircraft registration and/or certification packet requirement questions:
EAA (877-359-1232) and Rainbow Aviation (530-824-0644).

We also encourage you to contact your affiliated ultralight association:
EAA (877-359-1232); USUA (717-339-0200); ASC (269-781-4021), or USHPA(800-616- 6888) with any questions you may have regarding the ultralight to ELSA conversion process. The FAA Light-Sport Aircraft Branch (405-954-3668) is also available to answer your ELSA certification conversion questions and to help you locate the closest ELSA DAR qualified to inspect your aircraft.

DON'T DELAY ACT TODAY!!!


So obvioiusly I'm not going to be having anything inspected by those dates, what happens after those dates?

This seems like it will affect lots and lots of folks, I was hoping some of you will have already done some of the work in figuring it all out and be willing to share?

Any info/feedback greatly appreciated.

Jason


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:46 am    Post subject: Re: What does it mean? Reply with quote

Higher taxes are bad. That said the current plan being pushed by the FAA will have little effect on the average LSA pilot. The only user fees being proposed are in Bravo airspace. The tax on AvGas will increase from 19.xx cents/Gal to 70 cents/gal so if you can run Mogas you won't be affected by that.

Here's a link for the FAA's take on the plan.

http://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/reauthorization/media/Questions_Answers.pdf
I still think taxes are bad and that this plan is being pushed by the airlines to move some of the cost off of them and on to GA but it isn't as bad as it could have been. Also, there's a real good chance that it isn't going to make it through congress anyway.


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:58 am    Post subject: What does it mean? Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:10 am    Post subject: Re: What does it mean? Reply with quote

Thank you for that link, I just got through reading it top to bottom. Essentially, the only cost increase will be the extra 70 cents per gallon for those doing non-commercial flight. On a zodiac XL, that means somewhere in the neighborhood of an extra $15 to $20 everytime you fill up.

I wonder how the FAA wouild deal with LSA's or airports that started selling/running on 93 octane gasoline (for those engines that can do both). I don't anticipate doing that, just a thought.

Thank you for the feedback, excellent info.

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:21 am    Post subject: What does it mean? Reply with quote

Jason,

My understanding of this (and those of you who know the rules - please
correct me on this) is that this year provides a UNIQUE opportunity, (a
loophole of sorts!) possibly never occuring again, being granted by the FAA.
Before year's end, you can take ANY unregistered aircraft that meets LSA
parameters, doesnt matter who built it, doesnt matter how many owners,
doesnt matter if it meets 51% rule... as long as it is airworthy for
inspection -- and GET IT registered legally (as ELSA). It took a friend to
make me realize how unique this opportunity is -- all of those illegal 'fat
ultralights' (for lack of a better word) can be brought into a legal status
once and for all. That is the purpose of this 'conversion' being offered,
ending Dec 2008.

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From a practical standpoint: go onto barnstormers and find that old
Challenger, Kolb, Zenith, Rans, ANYTHING that is in someone's garage

completely built, half built, never built - dont care about tracking
ownership stuff and all the rules for experimental that we are all familiar
with. Buy that gem at a great price, get it airworthy and fill out the ELSA
paperwork. You have a legal aircraft at a great price that otherwise was
going to rot in someone's garage... cause you KNOW they arent going to allow
2 place 'fat ultralights' to fly anymore. I feel sorry for the original
owners of those that dont have pilot's licenses.. THEY are the ones getting
hurt. But YOU can own it now and fly legally.

That, I think, is the intent of this rule and why it has an ending date.
Take advantage.. a GREAT way to get into the air - Zenith or not! (I almost
get the impression that building your own aircraft kit and registering it as
ELSA was a sidebar to the real intent that I explained here)

Those that know this stuff better, please correct me! (I may be off base in
my facts or analysis!)

In fact, if you are able "unregister" (legally of course) a registered plane
that you are interested in.. now you have the basis for starting over and
registering it as your own, ELSA! (I've been hearing stories!)

Jon

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:48 am    Post subject: What does it mean? Reply with quote

Hi Jason,

All the stuff you quoted means that if you don't get your
airworthiness certificate by January 31,2008 you will only be able to
register your home built plane as Experimental - Amateur Built. This
is not a really big deal. After that date E-LSA will only work for
planes that are exact copies of "Certified" S-LSA models.

The new funding stuff the FAA is trying to put in place should not
directly impact your flying privileges - only your wallet. Among
other things, they want to increase the federal tax on Avgas from
$.20 to $0.70 per gallon (give or take). They also want to implement
user fees for use of FAA services like landing at busy airports and
flight planning services.

I think it would be a good idea for all of us to write to our
congressmen and senators to ask them to oppose this new funding
plan. There is still a chance this new plan will not be implemented in law.

Paul
XL fuselage
At 08:27 AM 2/27/2007, you wrote:
Quote:


Can anyone put it in plain English? The FAA is proposing new fees
and restrictions for aviation that would directly affect people that
are thinking of building/flying their own LSA. True/False? Probable?

I've read some about it on the EAA website, and then ran across this
tidbit on the RANS aircraft page and am having a little trouble
making sense of it and how it will actually apply on an everyday basis.

(from here (http://www.rans.com/ELSA%20Alert.htm))
>
> SPECIAL NOTICE ON REGISTERING AIRCRAFT
>
> ELSA ALERT: The FAA's Aircraft Registration office and the
Light-Sport Aircraft Branch would like to remind all individuals
converting aircraft into an Experimental Light-Sport Aircraft
(ELSA) per FAR 21.191(i)(1)that there is a January 31, 2008
deadline to complete the ELSA aircraft registration, the ELSA
airworthiness inspection, and the ELSA certification process.
>
> The FAA will guarantee that your registration and certification
packet will be reviewed and your ELSA aircraft inspected in
sufficient time to meet the January 31, 2008 deadline if:
> 4. By August 15, 2007, you submit your aircraft registration
(N-number) request to the Aircraft Registration office; and
> 5. By October 1,2007, you call your local ELSA DAR to schedule
your ELSA airworthiness inspection; and
> 6. By November 30, 2007, you submit your aircraft
airworthiness certification request packet to either a FAA Flight
Standards District Office (FSDO), a FAA Manufacturing Inspection
District office (MIDO), or your local ELSA DAR. Ask your local ELSA
DAR which office should receive this packet.
>
> If you fail to complete the above steps, the FAA cannot guarantee
they'll be able to complete your ELSA registration and
certification inspection process prior to the January 31, 2008 deadline.
>
> If you need assistance in determining the exact requirements for
converting your Ultralight into an ELSA, there are two industry
sources available to answer any of your ELSA aircraft registration
and/or certification packet requirement questions:
> EAA (877-359-1232) and Rainbow Aviation (530-824-0644).
>
> We also encourage you to contact your affiliated ultralight association:
> EAA (877-359-1232); USUA (717-339-0200); ASC (269-781-4021), or
USHPA(800-616- 6888) with any questions you may have regarding the
ultralight to ELSA conversion process. The FAA Light-Sport Aircraft
Branch (405-954-3668) is also available to answer your ELSA
certification conversion questions and to help you locate the
closest ELSA DAR qualified to inspect your aircraft.
>
> DON'T DELAY ACT TODAY!!!
>
So obvioiusly I'm not going to be having anything inspected by those
dates, what happens after those dates?

This seems like it will affect lots and lots of folks, I was hoping
some of you will have already done some of the work in figuring it
all out and be willing to share?

Any info/feedback greatly appreciated.

Jason


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:10 pm    Post subject: Re: What does it mean? Reply with quote

*smiles* I can't help it..I have to respond to this even if it is way over the top:

Quote:

The new funding stuff the FAA is trying to put in place should not
directly impact your flying privileges - only your wallet.


Money is the primary control attribute in any number of issues. Taxation without represnentation was one of the things that set off the eventual creation of the USA after all. Right now..how is Congress thinking of controlling our forces in Iraq? By controlling money of course.

I know I know, it's way over the top; but the idea that it doesn't impact our privlegies just our wallet isn't quite right.

Anyways, just had to get that off my chest.

Jason

\\I know I took that outside the lines of your intent, it just grabbed my attention.

**edits to fix bolding**...ok..so the bolding thing isn't fixed so easily.


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:26 pm    Post subject: What does it mean? Reply with quote

there are additional costs, if you land in any field, there will ultimately be a landing fee. Not just towered fields. the new prpoosed deal is a phased in approach. do you want to pay $3.80/gal plus $0.70 more per gallon, that is $25.00 more per fill up? plus $30.00 on average every time you want to go for that $100.00 now $140.00 hamburger run? Europe's system is an utter failure. Our system is well funded the way it is, the only reason this is coming to the table is due to FAA's fundung coming up again, and the ATA's lobbiist doing a damned good job. GA is less than 600,000 people now, and Trasnport is not doing well at all. they cannot make money.
Guess who is recommending the new proposed system, ATA. Only $0.70? add that to the cost to train in an area that the population is getting smaller.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:46 pm    Post subject: Re: What does it mean? Reply with quote

As someone who has been thru a few FAA related scares in the past, may I suggest the following. The AOPA and to a slightly lesser extent the EAA have long been champions of general aviation and our freedom to fly. They work tirelessly to protect our interests and have a good record of success. I have belonged to both AOPA and EAA for over 30 years and responded when they put out the call to contact our legislators and others. I for one do not plan to give in to the FAA's ill-planned attempt to bring in user fees without a fight. I urge all of you to support the AOPA and EAA and do the same. There is power in numbers.

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:02 pm    Post subject: What does it mean? Reply with quote

Gig,
User Fees and the FAA's current plan will make not make it through
congress if nobody, and I mean nobody, goes along with any of it. Yes,
the program will have a very bad affect on LSA and all of general
aviation. Worse, it will cause us to lose the freedom to fly anywhere,
at almost anytime. Why not have user fees for cars, just think $1.00
for every stop sign you stop at; $1.00 for every red light you use;
$5.00 for entering the interstate; then increase fuel taxes many times
- and don't forget, reduce everything for truckers because they are
commercial and the highways and roadways are for them, not the general
driving public. You need to rethink you support of the FAA - it is far
worse than you think. Are you an airline pilot?
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:51 pm    Post subject: Re: What does it mean? Reply with quote

Steven,

Please reread my post. I was hardly supportive of the FAA plan. What I said was it wasn't as bad as it could have been. It well could have had fees any service used. While the increase in the tax is a fairly hefty bump in many cases it can be completely avoided by burning Mogas.

Most of the airports where there will be a fee already have landing fees that push them out of the average LSA flight plan.

I will repeat though that TAXES ARE BAD and I really don't think this one will pass as is.


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:30 pm    Post subject: What does it mean? Reply with quote

i agree that it may nbot pass as is, becuase the GAO has a report that says the FAA is a terrible revenue collector. this would make FAA a revenue collector. and off /on peak? this is not a high way, and it looks to privatise the air usage like a private Hwy.

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:38 pm    Post subject: What does it mean? Reply with quote

Gig,
I realise that you are not really supportive of the FAA plan and that
it was not as bad as it could have been. And yes, the proposed tax
increase can be avoided by using Mogas - until most Mogas has ehonol!

Never-the-less, my point is and was that nobody should give them an
inch about any user fee, higher tax, etc. Doing so only restricts
freedom. No pilot should be a sheep being lead by the government wolf
- we must all be sheepdogs and keep the wolf at bay or reduce the wolf
population.

I was an air traffic controller for 20 years - rising from new
controller to facility chief and both busy and not so busy military
and joint use civil/military airports. I have been a pilot for more
than 40 years, flying in many foreign lands and the United States.

Without a doubt, every single other country in the world has a system
that cannot match ours for individual freedom and cost - including
Canada, Australia and the few other countries that have relatively
free sky's.The current FAA system is not even close to being broke or
out of money. It is the best in the world and the only reasons this or
any administration wants to change it are: Gain more power and control
over pilots. Ensure that airlines have the most say and that the
system caters to them before all others.

Granting fees for any use at any place paid by any group will only
lead to a complete system of user fees. Fight them all the time every
chance that you can and at every venue that you can. That is the only
way we will win.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:06 am    Post subject: Re: What does it mean? Reply with quote

Also don't forget, a user fee is technically not a tax increase. This way the administration can claim that they aren't raising taxes......

Those of us who live near Canada have had a taste of user fees. A friend flew his Arrow across southern Ontario (didn't land) to Buffalo and a few weeks later he received a bill in the mail from the corporation that now runs ATC in Canada. He had of course filed a flight plan and had talked to London Approach on his way thru. The Canadians looked up his N-number and sent him a bill. It was something like $60-70 and it covers him if he were to fly in Canada again sometime in the following three months. I feel sorry for our Canadian neighbors. The one positive thing is that the Zenith's gross weight is low enough that I believe it is exempt from fees unless you try to land and one of a selected number of "big" airports.

Steven is correct..... the idiots in Washington want to "fix" what is already the best air traffic control system in the world. The FAA can't account for where all the money it's spending is going now yet they tell us that the current system won't meet their increasing financial needs. Fortunately, with the help of AOPA, EAA, NBAA etc., the congress is getting an earfull and so far seem skeptical. Just keep those cards and letters coming!

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:19 pm    Post subject: Re: What does it mean? Reply with quote

Does this mean you can't register as LSA after a certain date too? What the hell was the point of LSA in the first place then?

As far as the other points, if registered before 2008, no fuel surcharge and no landing surcharge? After that you have to pay for all this crap? I can't imagine them at EAA or AOPA letting this type of she-it actually pass. Insane.

Do you think small airports with class D or E airspace would actually put charge. Unlikely, or they'd out of business in no time. I hate government. Seriously. Anyone that that doesn't think we live in Communist Light is off their rocker. I'd love to see the whole thing collapse and all of these politicians out on their asses.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 5:11 am    Post subject: Re: What does it mean? Reply with quote

Gig Giacona wrote:
Higher taxes are bad. That said the current plan being pushed by the FAA will have little effect on the average LSA pilot. The only user fees being proposed are in Bravo airspace. The tax on AvGas will increase from 19.xx cents/Gal to 70 cents/gal so if you can run Mogas you won't be affected by that.

Here's a link for the FAA's take on the plan.

http://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/reauthorization/media/Questions_Answers.pdf
I still think taxes are bad and that this plan is being pushed by the airlines to move some of the cost off of them and on to GA but it isn't as bad as it could have been. Also, there's a real good chance that it isn't going to make it through congress anyway.


Reading the link, it actally doesn't sound much different than what they already have in place. Currently we're all already paying for ATC service through fuel. They failed to mention that. That's why 100LL is more expensive than regualr gasoline, there's a huge tax on it already. I remember hearing that years ago. They just want more money.

As far as user fees, if I went and landed at PHL international today, I'd get sent a landing fee bill. They may be proposing to extend this to airports with Class C airspace, something like that. That being the case, they can keep Atlantic City International. Who the hell would want to land a small plane in all that crap anyway.

The real BS is the fuel surcharge. They actually already have a fuel surcharge.

Be nice if the EAA set up a program to help establish more Mo-Gas stations at small airports. That would pretty much take care of this new non-problem for people that traditionally don't want to have much to do with bloated government in the first place. Speaking of that, has anyone seen the US Constituion, we left it aroudn here someplace. Last I saw it Woodrow Wilson was messing with it installing an illegal Federal Reserve, then FDR was messing with it creating a welfare state and conficating real money, then Ike was establishing the precedent of illegal wars, then LBJ was setting the precedent for how to bankrupt a country, then Nixon was messing with it creating a pure fiat currency, then Reagan was using to...


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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:55 am    Post subject: What does it mean? Reply with quote

ALL THIS TIME, I THOUGHT THE CONSTITUTION WAS A BOAT.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:35 am    Post subject: What does it mean? Reply with quote

The federal excise tax on aviation gasoline is currently $0.193 per
gallon and on auto gas it is $0.184 per gallon. Avgas isn't more
expensive because of the tax, it's more expensive because it's
produced by a different method than auto gas and to a different
specification and the market for avgas is so much smaller than for
auto gas. At this time, the federal government does not charge any
landing fees, the landing fees that already exist are imposed either
by the airport authority itself or by the individual states.

The major difference between the current system of funding aviation
and the proposed system is that the proposed system will require a
large bureaucracy to keep track of who's using what services and who
to send the bills to. This bureaucracy will add significant cost to
the whole system and will result in higher costs for all users of
aviation. The current system of funding consists entirely of point of
sale collection of taxes and airline passenger surcharges. There is
no need for a large bureaucracy to collect the money so it is much
less costly.

It seems the main point of the proposed funding scheme is to shift
the cost of the aviation system from the airlines (the primary users
of the system) to general aviation by eliminating the current airline
passenger surcharges and increasing the fuel tax on other users by
240%. What the government is proposing is basically increasing the
number of people sucking money out of the taxpayers pockets. If the
government manages to get user fees established for class B airspace
and large airports and commercial operators, they will eventually
expand it to other classes of airspace and smaller airports and
private pilots. Then they will eventually make it mandatory for every
pilot to file flight plans and pay user fees for every aspect of
aviation. Government is like a fungus, if you don't constantly work
to keep it contained it will just keep growing and sucking up more
and more resources until it chokes the life out of those who it feeds
off of.

On Mar 3, 2007, at 8:11 AM, ashontz wrote:

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Reading the link, it actally doesn't sound much different than what
they already have in place. Currently we're all already paying for
ATC service through fuel. They failed to mention that. That's why
100LL is more expensive than regualr gasoline, there's a huge tax
on it already. I remember hearing that years ago. They just want
more money.

As far as user fees, if I went and landed at PHL international
today, I'd get sent a landing fee bill. They may be proposing to
extend this to airports with Class C airspace, something like that.
That being the case, they can keep Atlantic City International. Who
the hell would want to land a small plane in all that crap anyway.

The real BS is the fuel surcharge. They actually already have a
fuel surcharge.

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Gig Giacona wrote:
> Higher taxes are bad. That said the current plan being pushed by
> the FAA will have little effect on the average LSA pilot. The only
> user fees being proposed are in Bravo airspace. The tax on AvGas
> will increase from 19.xx cents/Gal to 70 cents/gal so if you can
> run Mogas you won't be affected by that.
>
> Here's a link for the FAA's take on the plan.
>
> http://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/reauthorization/media/
> Questions_Answers.pdf
> I still think taxes are bad and that this plan is being pushed by
> the airlines to move some of the cost off of them and on to GA but
> it isn't as bad as it could have been. Also, there's a real good
> chance that it isn't going to make it through congress anyway.


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It's a SHIP not a BOAT, shame on you. Smile

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For those of you not familiar with the cliche, a boat is a hole in the
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