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bryanmmartin
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 Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 6:03 pm Post subject: E-AB vs. E-LSA |
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E-AB:
-An E-AB must meet the 51% rule and doesn't have to meet the LSA
limitations.
-It will be issued either a 25 hour or 40 hour phase 1 flight test
period.
-The builder of an E-AB can get the repairman certificate for his
airplane with no requirement for maintenance training.
-The original builder is the only one that can be issued a repairman
certificate for that airplane.
-The AB repairman certificate holder for that airplane or an A&P
mechanic are the only people who may the annual condition inspection
on that airplane.
-Anybody can perform maintenance on or make modifications to an E-AB.
-An E-AB can not be rented for flight training (a flight instructor
can get paid for flight training given in someone's E-AB).
E-LSA:
-An E-LSA does not have to meet the 51% rule. It can even be purchased
ready to fly.
-It can be assigned a flight test period as short as five hours.
-The owner of an E-LSA can earn a LSA repairman certificate by taking
a 16 hour maintenance course.
-The LSA repairman certificate will allow the holder to sign off the
annual condition inspection on any LSA that the holder of the
certificate owns.
-Anybody can perform maintenance on or make modifications to an E-LSA.
-An E-LSA can be rented for flight instruction until January 31st 2010.
There are three ways to certificate an airplane as an E-LSA:
FAR 21.191 (i) (1): An airplane that has never had an airworthiness
certificate issued for it and does not meet the definition of an
ultralight but does meet the limitations of the LSA rule. This is the
so called "fat ultralight" rule. It was intended to allow owners of
aircraft two place ultralight trainers and other aircraft that did not
meet the ultralight rules to make their aircraft legal and continue to
fly them and allow people giving ultralight flight instruction in
these airplanes to continue to do so until 2010. ANY kit, scratch
built or ready to fly airplane that qualifies as LSA and has never
been certificated can be certificated under this rule, it doesn't have
to be the typical "fat ultralight". This rule expires on January 31st
2008. After that date, no airplane can receive an airworthiness under
this rule.
FAR 21.191 (i) (2): A manufacturer can build a prototype that meets
the consensus standards for S-LSA can then build E-LSA kits based on
this prototype. These airplane kits must be built according to the kit
manufacturers plans with no deviations. Modifications can only be made
after the plane has received its airworthiness certificate and the
test time flown off. As far as I know, no manufacturer has chosen to
go this route yet so no E-LSAs can actually be certificated under this
rule.
FAR 21.191 (i) (3): An airplane that has previously received an S-LSA
certificate can be re-certificated as an E-LSA.
The only way you can certificate a scratch built aircraft after
January 31st 2008 is as an E-AB but if it meets the limitations of the
LSA rules, you can still fly it under the Sport Pilot rules.
There are probably a few details I left out, but this pretty much
covers the differences between E-AB and E-LSA as I understand them.
On Dec 18, 2007, at 5:45 PM, kmccune wrote:
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Sorry for the dumb question, but what IS the difference between E-
SLA and E-AB? I can't find a good source on this. My buddy is going
to register his Challenger E-LSA. I've heard people say that you
can't register anything E-LSA after this year? All the while I've
not found any thing official that really spells it out. I assume
that if you scratch build is has to be E-AB?
PS congrats on the milestone!
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kmccune
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Posts: 577
Location: Wisconsin, USA
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| Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 6:15 pm Post subject: Re: E-AB vs. E-LSA |
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THATs what I wanted, thanks!
Kevin
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