Svein, et. al.,
Big old Catch 22 over here in FAA land. To do a proper checkout one
must have a CFI to do the instruction. The CFI normally will charge for
their instruction time. But one is not allowed to earn income through
the use of an experimental amateur built aircraft. So try to find a
qualified CFI with experience in the transition aircraft who will do it
for no charge.
I happen to have a friend who is a CFI but is not a professional flight
instructor. He has given me and others proper checkouts in various
experimental amateur built aircraft for not charge. Guys like that are
darn few and far between over here.
Blue skies & tailwinds,
Bob Borger
Europa XS Tri, Rotax 914, Airmaster C/S Prop.
Little Toot Sport Biplane, Lycoming Thunderbolt AEIO-320 EXP
3705 Lynchburg Dr.
Corinth, TX 76208-5331
Cel: 817-992-1117
rlborger@mac.com
On Sep 17, 2012, at 2:46 AM, Sidsel & Svein Johnsen
<sidsel.svein@oslo.online.no> wrote:
NTSB issued in May a very interesting report on accidents with
amateur-built airplanes compared to certified airplanes, based on
detailed evaluation of the numbers behind the summary statistics:
http://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/reports/2012/SS1201.pdf
One of their findings is that many more accidents caused by loss of
control in the air happen with amateur-built than with certified
airplanes, and that a high percentage is with second-hand airplanes a
short time after being purchased. NTSB points to the fact that FAA do
not follow the same practice as many other countries do, in that FAA do
not require a pre-approved test flight program, nor approval of a report
on the test flying (only a log book entry that test flight has been
completed), which in turn may cause the pilot=92s operating
handbook/flight manual to be lacking important airplane characteristics.
What the NTSB report do not say anything about, however, is mandatory
transition training and check out in the specific amateur-built
airplane. Under the joint European pilot license regime (JAR-FCL), we
must receive such training and have it entered in our log book. This
means that before we can fly the Europa we have built (unless approved
by our CAA to perform the very first flight) we must receive such
airplane-specific rating, and also before we may pilot another Europa
than our own, no matter how many hours we have logged in our own plane
and irrespective of all the similarities between two individual Europas.
Therefore the following question to the American Europeans on this
forum: Before you can legally be the pilot of ANY experimental classed,
amateur-built airplane, are you not required by FAA to receive
transition training/rating check-out by a pre-approved CFI or other
experienced, approved person, even for flying a =93sister=94 airplane of
the same type and model that you may already be experienced in?
Regards,
Svein
LN-SKJ
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