On Jan 23, 11:02 pm, Tony V wrote:
jcarlyle wrote:
At least for my LS8-18, the feds can get you another way - a compass
is on the Minimum Equipment List. So my glider is required to have a
"magnetic direction indicator".

No. That is not what the minimum equipment list means.

Only a government agency could come up with something like this: A
Minimum Equipment List (MEL) is an FAA approved list of instruments that
may be *defective* and still have the aircraft to be considered airworthy.

See section 6.phttp://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgAdvisoryCircular...

Tony V LS6-b "6N"

I see what you mean, Tony - that FAA definition is indeed perverted!
Two questions for you:

1) A magnetic compass is on the LS8 MEL, which seems to indicate that
you have to physically have a compass in the aircraft. Does AC 91-67
allow you put a placard over a blank hole saying "compass inoperative"
and fly with no compass until the next condition inspection?

2) Under the "Additionally for Cloud Flying" paragraph of the LS8 MEL
a turn and bank indicator is listed. Does AC 91-67 imply that I can
placard a T&B "inoperative" in 1/8" high letters and go look at the
interior of clouds (disregarding for the moment that it isn't legal to
fly a glider in clouds in the US)?

-John