Quote Originally Posted by Bill Berson View Post
Yeh, it is kind of funny.
The whole LSA scheme was created to provide standards for the 496 pound two seat ultralights that were operating with weight exemptions. The FAA created the LSA rules to eliminate those exemptions, FAA said: "we don't want to rule by exemption".

Scope creep indeed.

Is that funny, haha, or funny in a strange sort of way?

If the LSA rules were created to eliminate weight exemptions then why did they specifically include language to the contrary?