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Bob White wrote:

>On Tue, 2 May 2006 07:45:59 -0700
>"Joe Hull" <joeh@pilgrimtech.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>>This is somewhat of a gray area, isn't it?
>>>
>>>Suppose you buy pieces of an experimental to assist in the building of
>>>yours.  How many 'pieces' can you buy before you can't get the repairman
>>>certificate? 
>>>      
>>>
>>Exactly 49% !  Now, how that 49% is calculated is not grey - it's
>>non-existent!  You take your best guess at the total labor that would be
>>involved in the original kit or plans and then deduct the estimated labor to
>>build the parts you bought. You, the builder, are supposed to have invested
>>51% of the effort.  
>>
>>    
>>
>Hi Joe,
>
>There is a difference between the 51% rule and the requirements for a
>repairman's certificate.  10 people can build an airplane as a group
>and use their combined effort to meet the 51% rule (what ever that
>51% is).  One and only one of the group can get the repairman's
>certificate even if that person only did a small percentage of the
>total work.
>
>Bob W.
>

And there's the gray area, Bob. 8*) 
"even if that person only did a small percentage of the total work." 
Maybe all he did was bolt the prop on 8*)  Anyway, please don't suggest 
the FAA make the laws simple.  I prefer the laws that I live under to be 
murky and unintelligible.  Where the fun in the safety and security of 
KNOWING when your breaking the law?  Where is the excitement in KNOWING 
what your rights are?  Let's just keep the status quo, where any FSDO 
can do as it d8mn well pleases...until someone with enough lawyers and 
money to pay them comes along.

I prefer my method anyway.  Build everything up from a pile of mill-cut 
tubes so that there is no question from the FAA or the Oshkosh judges.

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