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From: Bob White <rlwhite@comcast.net>
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On Tue, 02 May 2006 11:24:08 -0400
Ernest Christley <echristley@nc.rr.com> wrote:


> >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.
> 
Hi Ernest,

I don't think the small percentage of total work is a gray area.  You
have to do some of all the different kinds of work.  I don't think
bolting on the prop qualifies although I don't doubt someone has used
that accomplishment to get a repairman's cert.  :)

You'll like this story.  There's a glider at the airport (Moriarty is a
center for glider activity) that has dual jet engines that fold out on a
pod.  The builder was having some difficulty with the FAA.  They told
him they wouldn't certify it as a glider with jet engines, it would
have to be certified as an airplane. So he said "OK, then I'm going to
build 10 more of these and rent them to guys so they can build time to
qualify for a job with the airlines".  They certified it as a glider!
I guess the moral is, if you're smart enough you can avoid the lawyers
and still enjoy your murky unintelligible environment.

Before purchasing my plane, I had already bought the aluminum sheet to
build a BD-4 fuselage.  Us BD-4 guys don't use many tubes.  I wouldn't
have any trouble getting the repairman's cert, but I probably wouldn't
be flying before I was 80.

Bob W.

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