To the Google Maddness, the original poster,

Please excuse this interruption to what has been a very good thread. You
see, Mxsmanic is a fat troll expat American that lives in Paris. He has no
personal life other than to play on MS Flight Simulater and then come in
here and act like he is an expert in all things aviation. He also is only
capable of earning less than $700 per month.

Please don't allow him to sway you in any way or in any way discourage you
from asking further advise in this forum. At last count you had received 16
on topic answers so one out of 17 ain't bad. Every group on USENET has at
least one of these as do most communities in the real world. Now I'm going
to break my rule a reply to the troll only to clear up any possible
incorrect info for you.


Mxsmanic wrote:
Gig 601XL Builder writes:

2. (In)Security: We are currently in a war.

The United States is not currently at war.

2.The FAA with a lot of pushing from EAA and AOPA have created the
LSA license and aircraft certification standard that will allow you
to buy a brand new 2 place aircraft comparable to the one I'm
building for less than $100K. Take a 16 hour course and you will
even be able to work on you own LSA aircraft.

Of course, you can't do much with it. And if you want an LSA because
you failed the medical for a regular PPL, you're out of luck (that's
a really bizarre rule).


A pilot with a private certificate can do anything in an LSA airplane they
could do in a normally certified one. Including IFR and Class B airspace if
the aircraft is suitably equipped.

A pilot that has only an LSA certificate is under some limitations. No night
flight and my only fly aircraft with two seats that have a max gross weight
of 1340 lbs. Also, it has the benefit of not requiring a 3rd class medical.
Other limitations and information on the Light Sport rules can be found at
http://www.sportpilot.org/


3. The homebuilt industry is at an all time high. There are 1000's
of people building planes that out perform in one way or another
anything that has been built by Cessna or Piper.

This assumes that a homebuilt would satisfy your particular interest
in aviation.

Since the homebuilt market includes everything from low and slow single seat
aircraft to composite 4 and 6 place cross country speed demons I'm quite
sure there is a plane that you might not want to build but at least dream
about.