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"Ron Wanttaja" wrote


The consensus standards have been released, you can order them from
www.astm.org
(Stock number: Aircraft04). It's an 80-page document, used in lieu
of a
few
hundred pages of conventional FAR. Interesting read. The maintenan
ce
standard
is still under discussion, but it will probably be out soon. The FA
A is
having
its first course for DAR-LSAs this month, but I believe a standard D
AR
(or, of
course, the local FSDO) can do the safety sign-off for a production
LSA.


Ron Wanttaja

Is it correct to say that the consensus standards do not apply, when i
t is a
plans built? How about kit meeting 51% self built rule?

I'm still not exactly sure I understand what an experimental LSA is, a
nd
what hoops must be jumped through.
--
Jim in NC


An ELSA is simply an SLSA that has been pulled off the production line
at whatever point the customer wants. The customer then finishes the
planes following the EXACT factory instructions but it must be
identical to the SLSA. All factory parts and no modifications at all.

It is subject to the same maintaince ect requirements as SLSA but can
not be used for instruction or rental.