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Re: 51%

Subject: Re: 51%
From: DJA727@aol.com
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 15:21:02
In a message dated 12/24/2002 12:17:43 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
fillinger@ameritech.net writes:

> "If the kit manufacturer later offers an option or makes changes to
> the kit that decreases the amount of fabrication and assembly required
> by the builder, the manufacturer should request a new Letter of
> Eligibility."
> 
> If this is the [silly] problem, then one way is copies of the
> differing manual chapters (wings, flap?) and yellow-highlight only
> where in substance (not word-for-word) that fabrication and assembly
> steps vary.  Will there be very little yellow, and even bit more on
> the MG?  Or even sounds like just a letter from Europa narratively
> saying the same simple thing may be OK, though it really shouldn't (30
> yrs of Fed. investigatory and legal experience, and I can explain
> why).  Good luck!
> 

I noticed that when I found the web site with the list. The longer wings 
require more work, but I think I will have to get Europa to add the MG to the 
list to make the FAA relax about it. I will be researching that in the next 
few days -- slowed slightly by the holidays!

Dave A227
Mini U2


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