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    New small airplane laws may allow owner Owner Maintenance!!!

    Long time reader, never posted before. I saw this on another message board – after reading it I am really excited and had to post it! I attached the file to this post, hopefully it works.

    Evidently there is an FAA group rewriting the small aircraft laws. Looks like there has been a proposal made to allow people to maintain their own airplanes. The jist of it is that if you have an airplane that could be considered “noncommercial use” you could treat just as if it were a homebuilt.

    The cost savings on this would be HUGE!!!!

    I am not sure who made this suggestion, but it seems to go right along with the medical idea EAA is working. If this is EAA, I really applaud them – between the medical issues and this someone is finally working to make things better in the GA world. Great Job EAA!!!!!!!!!! (or whomever is doing this!!!)
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    Not entirely sure that it's a good idea- have seen too many pilots whose mechanical knowledge is (in generous terms) extremely limited at best

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    I like it alot. It is well written and well thought out - and it gives people the freedom to choose which direction they want to go.

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    In terms of laws and regulation, there is quite a gap between what makes good regulation and what is a good idea. I will suggest that we should err on the side of less regulation rather than more. EAA is a great umbrella for folks to learn the info and the skills to work up to a high standard. If you have not noticed, folks who bring poor attitude and poor skills to aviation are not deterred by the current regulations in any field of endevour, not just aviation. Since most of us try to do better, increased regulation only makes it harder on the 90% who try to do a good job since it generally only translates into more paperwork and labor hours doing that paperwork. That is what is killing recreational aviation today. Easier to own a boat.

    The gotcha will be how an airplane that has been owner maintained can be brought back from that status. Many airplanes can be used for flight training and other commercial purposes today. Will taking the airplane into owner maintained status lower its $$ value for resale? That might deter a lot of Cessna/Piper/Mooney owners right there.

    Guess we will stay tuned.

    Wes
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    I can't open that attachment for some reason (Mac ?).
    Can you provide a web link if possible?
    thanks
    Bill

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    Welcome to ideas that have both great and lousy aspects to them. In other words, it depends upon which pilots decide to take which route.
    Unfortunately in science what you believe is irrelevant.

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    A&P still has to annual it though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David Darnell View Post
    Not entirely sure that it's a good idea- have seen too many pilots whose mechanical knowledge is (in generous terms) extremely limited at best
    Having seen some of the lousy work done in shops by A&Ps I'd hate to think everyone relies on them as gospel.......

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    I am skeptical as the goverment rarely does anything without a long term hidden agenda.

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    I had no problem opening the file. I wonder how the FAA is going to take to something like this one? Hope it goes through.

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