Garmin 300XL Data cards.

abripl wrote:
There is no problem with experimentals and IFR except maybe that some
CFI's or examiners may not feel like flying in one - but that is an
individual choice.

For the record, I never suggested that there was a problem with experimentals
and IFR.

.... but I'm still curious. Doesn't your receiver's *installation* have to be
approved for IFR, just like on a Cessna/Piper/Beech? When that installation is
approved, don't you get an AFMS? Doesn't the AFMS spell out what database must
be installed?

Dave

Dave,

Just about everything on experimentals is "builder" approved. You
install it and make an aircraft log book entry that it was correctly
installed and tested. The exception is the required periodic IFR tests
of pitot, transponder, etc. which has to be done by approved trained
persons. Join rec.aviation.homebuilt news group and learn.

There are advantages to experimentals. And there are disadvantages:
takes several years to build one (many give up) and hull insurance is
hard to get.
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SQ2000 canard: http://www.abri.com/sq2000

abripl wrote:
Dave,

Just about everything on experimentals is "builder" approved. You
install it and make an aircraft log book entry that it was correctly
installed and tested. The exception is the required periodic IFR tests
of pitot, transponder, etc. which has to be done by approved trained
persons. Join rec.aviation.homebuilt news group and learn.

The annual condition inspection must be done by an approved person
as well (either the holder of the repairman's certificate or an A&P).
In addition, anything that would constitute a major modification to
the aircraft requires FAA notification (though I've never heard of
the FAA actually acting on any of these notifications).

Ron,

I have the repairmans certificate. Never heard of FAA refusing a
repairmans certificate to the original builder (only). The newer FAA
approved operating limitations do not require FAA notifications after
major modifications, but compliance with 91.319(b) which in my aircraft
operating limitations requires 5 hours of phase one flight testing and
appropriate entry in the aircraft logbook.