October 15th 13, 05:10 PM
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Pegasus Life span in USA
Wow! good news!
Thanks
Cookie
At 15:33 15 October 2013, Mark628CA wrote:
Actually, there is some progress being made on the Pegasus Life Limit AD.
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ithout going into too much detail on RAS, airshow pilot and jet sailplane
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eveloper Bob Carlton and myself have done quite a bit of research into
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origin of the AD and how it was enacted by the FAA. There are a number of
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ssues that raise questions as to the actual validity and legality of the
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.. These questions and other factors certainly raise the possibility of
an
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cceptable solution, but dealing with the FAA is a glacial process.
To get an idea of the scope of Bob=92s research, we have recently started
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website that links virtually all of the known data we have in one place.
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heck out www.savethepegasus.org to access the documentation. Note that
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website is only a couple of weeks old, and some sections are not active,
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r are incomplete. The =93Petition to Rescind=94 and the =93Timeline=94
are
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the most complete, and have extensive links to FAA regulations, Centrair
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ails, Administrative Law, technical data from OSTIV and a myriad of other
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ources that have bearing on the continuing airworthiness of Pegasus
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past the FAA AD limit of 3,000 hours.
Pegasus owners should be grateful to Bob Carlton for taking hundreds of
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rs of time to research and compile this information and talk to various
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officials in an attempt to resolve the issue.
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