Somewhere, over the rainbow:
Hitch - "Based on projections at Sun 'n' Fun in April, most of us were predicting August-September. But in the end, the only thing that mattered was that the rules were delivered before November, after which the process by US law would have had to start again.".
There exists an aviation authority which actually gets 'stuff' done on time and meets the needs of an industry. For 'private' and flight school operators and even perhaps for 'safety' and increased use by those who would be now able to upgrade. I shouldn't really applaud a department which simply performed design function and got the 'job' done; but it is refreshing. Well done.
Hitch - "Now we can see what the light sport aircraft of the future will look like, and first glance paints a very impressive picture. The two biggest shakers are that the arbitrary MTOW has been removed and replaced with a stall speed that can be as high as 61 KCAS, and new technology in power plants and avionics can be adopted."
(IMO) One of the side benefits to this ruling is that young folk, wanting a career in 'airlines' or corporate can train with modern, electronic equipment and navigation systems from the start. This will save training time, the hardest transitions for my 'generation' was from VAR, DME, ADF, VOR to FMS etc. Even the humble Garmin 100 had us talking for hours and reading 'how-to' books. The new generation can train in modern aircraft with 'equivalent' logic. That's great I reckon; for the USA.
But what of Australia? Will the new be welcomed and instituted without a three or four year delay while it is castrated, then manipulated and squeezed into a unique boxed in rule set? I won't wonder too much, there will have to be a mammoth 'make work' event just to adopt the work already done for ICAO compliant states, where it will just slot in, neat and tidy. No doubt we shall see, but never wanted more than to be proved wrong on this welcome change.
Toot toot.
Hitch - "Based on projections at Sun 'n' Fun in April, most of us were predicting August-September. But in the end, the only thing that mattered was that the rules were delivered before November, after which the process by US law would have had to start again.".
There exists an aviation authority which actually gets 'stuff' done on time and meets the needs of an industry. For 'private' and flight school operators and even perhaps for 'safety' and increased use by those who would be now able to upgrade. I shouldn't really applaud a department which simply performed design function and got the 'job' done; but it is refreshing. Well done.
Hitch - "Now we can see what the light sport aircraft of the future will look like, and first glance paints a very impressive picture. The two biggest shakers are that the arbitrary MTOW has been removed and replaced with a stall speed that can be as high as 61 KCAS, and new technology in power plants and avionics can be adopted."
(IMO) One of the side benefits to this ruling is that young folk, wanting a career in 'airlines' or corporate can train with modern, electronic equipment and navigation systems from the start. This will save training time, the hardest transitions for my 'generation' was from VAR, DME, ADF, VOR to FMS etc. Even the humble Garmin 100 had us talking for hours and reading 'how-to' books. The new generation can train in modern aircraft with 'equivalent' logic. That's great I reckon; for the USA.
But what of Australia? Will the new be welcomed and instituted without a three or four year delay while it is castrated, then manipulated and squeezed into a unique boxed in rule set? I won't wonder too much, there will have to be a mammoth 'make work' event just to adopt the work already done for ICAO compliant states, where it will just slot in, neat and tidy. No doubt we shall see, but never wanted more than to be proved wrong on this welcome change.
Toot toot.