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bakerocb
Joined: 15 Jan 2006
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Location: FAIRFAX VA
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 Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:11 am Post subject: Homebuilt Regulations |
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12/3/2007
Hello Fellow Listers, I thought that this letter on AVWEB may be of
interest.
'OC' Says: "The best investment we can make is the effort to gather and
understand knowledge."
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Homebuilt Regulations
Your question this week about homebuilt regulations compels a more detailed
response (QOTW, Nov. 29).
The regulation and certification of small aircraft in the U.S. is seriously
flawed and in some ways actually reduces safety. Burt Rutan with
SpaceShipOne showed the direction we need to go. In Burt's case, an
incentive in the form of a prize was offered to trigger innovative minds to
come up with new solutions. It has been true for years that many people in
the homebuilt community are motivated to participate not because they want
to build an airplane but because they are not able to acquire the
cutting-edge technology they want in an airplane elsewhere.
The high regulatory barriers to certification of aircraft and
aviation-related products produces new aircraft and products that cost great
sums of money or the products are not available at all. Safety is reduced
because new technology cannot be introduced promptly and at an appropriate
cost. All the new certified diesel engines for aircraft are now produced
outside the U.S. If new regulation to expand the homebuilt options is
possible, it is a good place to start. But it is only a start.
I recently had overhauled two Slick mags for my Cessna 140. My kids are
getting their licenses in this aircraft. In one mag the coil went bad at 700
hours since new. To overhaul and replace both coils cost $1000. It will last
another 700 hours! Because of regulation, no market forces exist forcing the
manufacture to improve this product or permit competing products. New
technology has existed for 75 years and exists in the homebuilt area but is
not permitted in my aircraft. Clearly the safety of my aircraft is reduced
because of the limited reliability of the available products.
Any reduced regulation that permits new technology to be introduced faster
and with more freedom in new and existing products is welcome and needed.
The market will demand and produce innovation that increases safety and
performance far in excess of what regulation will produce.
In Rutan's case the prize was needed. Here the market forces exist; the only
thing needed is for the regulators to get out of the way!
Joe Halsmer
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mlas(at)cox.net
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| Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:12 am Post subject: Homebuilt Regulations |
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With respect to the certification of small general aviation aircraft:
The first thing you must take into account is the concept at work: The
government is looking to create an aircraft that can be safely flown by
someone who holds no other knowledge then basics to operate the product
period. Therefore any product that has ANY interpretive method of use
will not certify.
Mike
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