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FAA
November 18, 2010
Photos on Pilot Certificates One Step Closer
Pilot Certificates are in for another change. The FAA published an NPRM (Notice of Proposed Rulemaking) that will mandate pictures on the pilot certificate. This rule will apply to all pilots, including sport pilots.
Jim Sweeney, SweeneyCorp (11/16/10)
Transponders. A lot of pilots figure they don't need them, others aren't sure, and yet others believe they need them when they really probably don't. Jim Sweeney joins us to talk about common questions people have about the equipment, its maintenance, and how it needs to be used.
Sport Pilot Stalled in Alaska Over Bureaucracy
Rob Stapleton of the Anchorage Examiner.com writes about the frustrations foisted onto the Alaskan sport aviation community by the FAA. The three-part series describes the powered parachute and weight shift control trike sports before and after Sport Pilot took effect. It is a tragic story of how the FAA destroyed a sport in the most flyingest state in the United States.
EAA Urges E-LSA Owners to Hang in There
Are you a pilot whose patience is running out waiting for the FAA to issue a Letter of Deviation Authority (LODA) so you can resume giving instruction in your experimental light-sport aircraft? If you’re one of the hundreds of E-LSA owners who had a training deviation prior to January 31, 2010, but are now considering ...
Foot Launched Tandems For Wheels, Too?
Powered paragliding operates under the ultralight rule, or FAR part 103, which is for solo flying only. For many years, tandem (two place) training was allowed under “exemptions” to FAR 103 until abuses essentially forced the FAA to create the Sport PIlot rule which ended all tandem exemptions, including those for powered paragliders. That left ...
Bever Borne, Air-Tech, Inc.
With the US elections today, Bever Borne comes on to talk about how directly politics enters into a pilot's life at all levels. Intrusive TSA officials, FAA personel who don't understand sport aviation, and an EPA that has effectively made it impossible for many peoople to get ethanol-free fuel are all symptoms of a government that tries to micromange so much of our life, but has grown so much that it can't do even basic things well.
The FAA Administrator
Following is an interview with the FAA Administrator, Randy Babbitt, published in the Washington Post. Being a pilot himself, he probably has aviation safety in mind more than most. In fact, this pull quote from the end of the article is excellent:
Bureaucratic Creep Threatens Sport Aviation
When I began flying, I had no idea how sensitive the sport would be to political wrangling. At the time it was all pretty simple. You get an ultralight aircraft, you get a little training (the smart guys did that in reverse order!) and then you have fun. Straight forward. My first taste of politics ...
Earl Lawrence, Experimental Aircraft Association
Earl Lawrence is moving from the EAA to the FAA. We talk with him for the last time as the Vice President of Industry and Regulatory Affairs because in a short time he will be the Manager of the FAA's Small Airplane Directorate in Kansas City. We talk about his old role at the EAA and how it has prepared him for service with the FAA as well as what his new job will entail.