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ventana7
08-05-2004, 11:30 PM
I am getting ready to build a gyro this fall - hopefully a Sparrowhawk.

Does anyone have any thoughts on wether I have an option of registering it as a regular experimental or must it now be an experimental LSA?

Do the experimental LSA's still need to meet the 51% rule?

It looks like experimental LSA's can tow (gyrogliders?) but is there any other advantage to what you can do with an experimental LSA vs. a regular experimetnal? I guess sport pilots could fly the experimental LSA but not a regualr experimental? Anybody have thoughts on other advantages one way or the other.

Can I instruct in my new machine either way if I have a regular CFI cert?

Regarding repairs - even if I build my own experimental LSA it looks like I still need an additonal course of 120 hrs to repair it. Is that how others read the rule?--

What happens to existing experimental gyros if we now start licensing new pilots with just a sport license- those older gyros could only be flown by regular PPL's or higher?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.