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sidsel.svein(at)oslo.onli
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 5:39 am Post subject: SV: Re: A question to the American "Europeans"

Remi,



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		   Where did you see that the JAA FCL require specific training for flying a

home
	


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		   built ? 


	


It is a definite requirement of the Norwegian CAA.  Some 8-9 years ago,

there was quite some discussion between the CAA and the Norwegian chapter of

EAA about this issue.  The CAA pointed out the JAR-FCL paragraph, as far as

I remember, and they have maintained this requirement ever since.  Doing a

quick search on the JAR-FCL web pages, I cannot find anything to support it.

Either it was misunderstood in this country, or the rules have changed

since.



I apologize for any concern caused.



Regards

Svein

LN-SKJ

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sidsel.svein(at)oslo.onli
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Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 9:52 am Post subject: SV: Re: A question to the American "Europeans"

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 I am a professional flight instructor and teach almost every day.  It was

 interesting when I applied for my airplane insurance. The company wanted

 me to have - - - - -- ---


	


I am very grateful for this message (of which I quote only the beginning),

although its content is of course quite sad.  It makes me understand better

why so many of these loss-of-control-in-the-air accidents happen.  I can

identify with the builder-wants-to-be-the test-pilot syndrome (for lack of a

better word) - I had the same desire.  I was fortunate in that I had the

possibility to attend an excellent upset recovery training course in

Phoenix, where the emphasis was as much on how to avoid loss of control as

how to regain it.  We went through many silly things we all have done as

pilots, and just exaggerated them a little to provoke the stall-spin entry.

In the Extra 300 recovery was easy, but the experience was still in many

cases FRIGHTENING!



While you have over 20,000 homebuilt aircraft in the US, we only have 50

airworthy ones here in Norway (3 of which are Europas).  Statistics

therefore cannot be used sensibly, it would take about 50 years to reach

100,000 accumulated flight hours, which is the normal accident rate basis

used.  The number of accidents is low, and too low (and with too few

aircraft in the fleet) to make sensible statistical comparisons with

certified private aircraft in our country (abt 310 aircraft only, and they

take abt 3 years to reach 100,000 flight hours total).



EAA - and also our national chapter - are rightly advocating a fair degree

of freedom in the technical aspects of our homebuilt aircraft.  When it

comes to flying them, however, I am glad that our EAA chapter has not pushed

for easing the Norwegian CAA's requirement for aircraft-specific training.

Our own life is one thing, our families' loss is quite another - not to

speak of the innocent passenger's health or life.  Interestingly, our CAA

now require that one pre-departure checklist item is to brief any passenger

on the principle differences between a homebuilt and a certified aircraft,

and then asking the passenger if she/he still wants to take the flight.



Regards,

Svein

LN-SKJ

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