To add to Jim Auman'a note, in late '93, when I removed my restrictions, I
asked for and got an expanded flight test area from the based airport, via a
specific VOR radial, to another airport/VOR about 30 - 40 NM away with
another allowed standard operable circle around that airport. I asked for a
corridor of ten miles on either side of the requested VOR radial to allow
for error in my initial navigation and to avoid any traffic along the route.

With my request letter, I included a chart with the proposed modified test
area outlined in red to depict just what I was asking for. The primary
reason I gave for the request was that at the speed I expected for a
Lancair, I would traverse the standard test area too quickly to get any real
testing done, plus the fact that about half of the standard test area would
be over the ocean and therefore not useful to me (I definitely didn't think
much of going ten miles out to sea during initial test flights, and the DAR
agreed). The best part was that within the requested additional test area
were three more airports - just in case.

The DAR not only granted my request and added the proper wording to my
restrictions, he said he thought it was a very good idea.

This all in the Southern California area where the local mind-set says that
the Feds aren't especially helpful to the home-built crowd. I found
otherwise.

Dan Schaefer
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