Quote Originally Posted by Frank Giger View Post
I had to explain this to my boss the other day, who thought that since I'm a Sport Pilot my homebuilt must be an LSA, and was asking about how I met the LSA (ATSM) standards.

So long as the weight and speeds are within the limitations, it falls within the types of aircraft I can pilot, so I built an E-AB within those parameters. It's an E-AB in the same way that an RV-10 is an E-AB.
I like the Light Sport rules, but one of the dumbest things the FAA did was to use the same term to define both Sport-Pilot-Eligible aircraft and the new certification categories. There are "Light Sport Aircraft" by the definition in 14 CFR Part 1, and "Special Light Sport Aircraft" and "Experimental Light Sport Aircraft" certification categories. This has produced endless confusion over the past fifteen years.

Operating Limitations for Experimental Amateur-Built aircraft may be unique to each example, while those for SLSA should be identical for all aircraft of that type.

Ron Wanttaja