Another program letter question .....

On Mar 10, 2:18*pm, Ron Gleason wrote:
A follow up to my questions and what occurred when I contacted *the
SLC FSDO.

The only major difference I can see with the operating limitations
letter is that I have to perform 'flight testing'. *This is described
as 'This aircraft must be operated for at least 5 hours with at least
10 takeoffs and landing (to a full stop), and all operations must be
conducted with 30 miles nautical miles of my home airport avoiding all
mountainous terrain.'

This requirement seems very strange. To the best of my knowledge this
sort of flight test phase is usually only applied to experimental
amateur built and restricts operation over populated areas during the
initial flights. I had not such flight test phase defined when I was
issued my experimental cert for my new ASW 28.

In my case though the operating limitations say they apply after
completion of the flight test phase but no flight test phase is
defined. They also reference the 300nm restriction relative to the
home base airport but no home base airport is defined.

I really don't think they have a very rigorous or consistent process,
but if you are happy with what they gave you don't rock the boat.

BTW I think avoiding mountainous terrain is good advice for all of
us. Keep at least half a wingspan away!

Andy

On Mar 10, 5:19*pm, Andy wrote:
On Mar 10, 2:18*pm, Ron Gleason wrote:

A follow up to my questions and what occurred when I contacted *the
SLC FSDO.
The only major difference I can see with the operating limitations
letter is that I have to perform 'flight testing'. *This is described
as 'This aircraft must be operated for at least 5 hours with at least
10 takeoffs and landing (to a full stop), and all operations must be
conducted with 30 miles nautical miles of my home airport avoiding all
mountainous terrain.'

This requirement seems very strange. *To the best of my knowledge this
sort of flight test phase is usually only applied to experimental
amateur built and restricts operation over populated areas during the
initial flights. * I had not such flight test phase defined when I was
issued my experimental cert for my new ASW 28.

In my case though the operating limitations say they apply after
completion of the flight test phase but no flight test phase is
defined. *They also reference the 300nm restriction relative to the
home base airport but no home base airport is defined.

I really don't think they have a very rigorous or consistent process,
but if you are happy with what they gave you don't rock the boat.

BTW I think avoiding mountainous terrain is good advice for all of
us. *Keep at least half a wingspan away!

Andy

Every Ex glider I've had has had a requirement for flight test phase
and logbbok entry indicating that glider was found to be controllable
and had "normal flight characteristics through the entire flight
envelope - language paraphrased.
UH

On Mar 10, 3:42*pm, wrote:
On Mar 10, 5:19*pm, Andy wrote:





On Mar 10, 2:18*pm, Ron Gleason wrote:

A follow up to my questions and what occurred when I contacted *the
SLC FSDO.
The only major difference I can see with the operating limitations
letter is that I have to perform 'flight testing'. *This is described
as 'This aircraft must be operated for at least 5 hours with at least
10 takeoffs and landing (to a full stop), and all operations must be
conducted with 30 miles nautical miles of my home airport avoiding all
mountainous terrain.'

This requirement seems very strange. *To the best of my knowledge this
sort of flight test phase is usually only applied to experimental
amateur built and restricts operation over populated areas during the
initial flights. * I had not such flight test phase defined when I was
issued my experimental cert for my new ASW 28.

In my case though the operating limitations say they apply after
completion of the flight test phase but no flight test phase is
defined. *They also reference the 300nm restriction relative to the
home base airport but no home base airport is defined.

I really don't think they have a very rigorous or consistent process,
but if you are happy with what they gave you don't rock the boat.

BTW I think avoiding mountainous terrain is good advice for all of
us. *Keep at least half a wingspan away!

Andy

Every Ex glider I've had has had a requirement for flight test phase
and logbbok entry indicating that glider was found to be controllable
and had "normal flight characteristics through the entire flight
envelope - language paraphrased.

Not mine. Maybe SDL FSDO accepted the factory flight test as
satisfying that requirment. Like I said, not consistent.

Andy