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I was reading a pilot report on the Katana airplane and they mentioned it was
not certified for IFR because it wasn't lightning certified.  I am soon to
start the wings on my ES and I was wondering if this issue applied to our
kind of airplanes. That is are we exempt from anything to do with lightning
certification?  I know many of you have flown your planes IFR and I intend to
as necessary.  Do static wicks help in this reguard? Has anyone looked into
this? I know from experience on the big iron that lightning doesn't like
fiberglass,( punches fairly large holes in radomes, but only puts pin sized
holes in aluminum) ,and static discharges can occur far from convective wx.    

On another subject I am thinking about purchasing speedbrakes and would like
to have the larger(90 gal) fuel system.  Is there any space or fitting
problems with this configuration?    

Thanks  Bob Bisbee (BIZ)
ES
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