New Currency Rule for Homebuilt?

"Gig Giacona" wrote in message
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Read this today on AVWEB. What is the deal?

http://avweb.com/newswire/11_19b/briefs/189753-1.html

The FAA is underscoring regulatory requirements for pilots who fly
passengers in homebuilt aircraft. A new notice would restrict them to
flying passengers only in planes in which they are qualified and
experienced. Currency and proficiency rules apply to those who take people
for rides in their experimental aircraft and EAA says current pilots have
until Aug. 31, 2005, to prove they have the necessary category and class
ratings for the aircraft they fly. Those who always fly solo will not need
to fly through the bureaucratic hoops. Under the new notice, which was
issued April 21, affected pilots will have fill out a form and make sure
their recreational or higher certificate is in order. Flying passengers
requires that the pilot have at least five hours as PIC in the category,
class, make and model of the experimental aircraft in question between
Sept. 1, 2004, and Aug. 31, 2005. An authorized flight instructor must
make a logbook entry attesting to the pilot's proficiency with the
aircraft and then the pilot must show the log to a designated pilot
examiner or FAA Operations Inspector. A new pilot certificate will then be
issued restricting the pilot to flying that particular experimental
aircraft (or any others for which he or she has done the paperwork).


1. Bureaucracy detests what it cannot control
2. They hate you killing yourself, but harming others is really, really
irritating (and lots more career risk).

Seriously, it all sounds reasonable, but I know many instructors refuse to
fly in homebuilts. I suppose EAA will start having to have a contact sheet.

At the sametime, NavCanada will now let you get your experimental
professionally built AND let you get a repair certificate as well. Proof
that ideas should be judged on their own merits, and not that of their
source (seriously, Ottawa went for this!).

PS no disrespect to the Canadians, love those people. Don't like Washington
anymore than Ottawa.