For all of you not wanting this change, nobody is twisting your arm requiring you to put your airplane in the non-commercial category. I am an A&P with I.A. The "annual inspection" that would be required, I presume, would be a condition inspection much like is done on amateur built aircraft. I have done these as an A&P. It would take a change in the regulations to allow an A&P to do a real annual inspection versus an annual condition inspection where the aircraft must meet its original type certificate or have been properly altered and only an IA or the FAA can do that. You still couldn't put a VW engine in a Champ like someone suggested because that would require FAA approval just like it would if, say a Wag-Aero Cuby Continental 65 engine was in the plane when its airworthiness certtificate was issued and the builder put a VW engine in it a year or two later. More than likely, the FAA would require the builder to go through a test period again. I think this proposal to change the regulation is a great idea. It might even make an airplane in that new category more easily sold if there is someone out there looking to have a plane he could legally do his own maintenance on. I'm afraid though that this will be met by the FAA just like the "No 3rd Class Medical" proposal was met. They aren't about to give up any control on us in my opinion.