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Barry Hancock wrote:
I await your next salvo of regs, Jeff, but I've shot this dead horse for the last time.
There was a long thread (a pissing contest would be a better description) in another mailing list for certified airplanes about using non-approved parts and modifications on certified airplanes. A lot of people took the same general approach as you are taking: What I am doing is safe, how will the FAA know, no one has been prosecuted for it, and here's one interpretation of the regs that supports my position...... etc. etc. etc. What ended that thread was a challenge issued by an A&P: If you are so sure what you are doing is right, then just send the local FSDO a letter informing them what modifications you have done to your airplane and there should be no problem. There were no takers.
Barry, if you are so sure that your approach is correct and Jeff is just parsing words in the FARs, why don't you just shoot off a letter to the local FSDO informing them what you think is the right way to do things, how you always do them and where they can shove if they do not like it. If nothing else, your subsequent encounter with the ALJ will either set precedent or set out an example for all that are of a similar persuasion as you. What is there to loose?
In other words, put your money where your keyboard is.
Regards,
Hamid
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