Bluelabel
Well Known Member
A little story and a few questions to get answers from people who know more than me
We finished phase 1 in the 10 and flew it back to San Diego from Neosho, MO 2 weeks ago (cool pics and all that good stuff coming soon!).
I made an appointment at local FSDO here in San Diego to apply for my repaireman's cert. The FSDO is literally 300 feet from my hangar.
During the build, we didn't keep much of any kind of log, we just photographed the heck out of everything including video. I was told my many builders that a photo log would be more than adequate to prove I just spent the last 3 years building this plane.... I built it with my father in law, but I'm the builder of record...many projecs are done by partners, but only one person can get the repaireman's cert....
So, I went in to the office, with all the required info and my iPad full of no less than 2000 pictures and videos, about 300 with me in them, date stamped over the last 3 years... I apparently got the one inspector who ALSO, happened to be training a new guy. He flat out said, "I don't believe you that you built the plane". That the photos could have been faked.... Hmm... I also had him and another FSDO minion claim that experimentals could not even be flown out of Montgomery field... AT ALL.... I'll get to that..
So, he decided that the next course of action would be to come look at the plane and see if he thought I was capable of performing the condition inspection. An hour later they we at my hangar. I was expecting to be answering questions about the plane and the build, which of course I could do since I build the plane and designed everything that was off plans... INSTEAD, they were quizzing me on regs and CFRs regarding condition inspections.. Well, I haven't studied up on all that since I won't need to do it until next year.... Long story shor(ER), they denied me for now, gave me a list of FAR stuff to look up and said to come back once I knew all of that material.
Some other things that this guy said which I have found to be wrong but I also have questions about...
He said you have to have your repaireman's cert to do ANY maintenance on the plane. He got upset because I mentioned that I had opened things up to inspect during phase one, and that I had recently replaced the fuel pumps with bigger ones( a 300hp BPE IO-540 is thirsty). My research showed that ANYONE can do the maintenance on an EAB,and that you only need the cert for the condition inspection...
He said that you can't fly experimentls out of KMYF... Of course you can't do phase 1 there, but he said AT ALL... I know for a fact there's a dozen RVs on the field and at least a dozen more experimentls. I called Jerrimiah Jackson and asked if he's ever heard such a thing and he said no.. He's been flying experimentals out of MYF for 20 years... Anyone ever heard of such stupidity?
Lastly,he said I couldn't fly over ANY populated areas.. My ops lims read pretty much the same as a certified plane."can't fly over a densely populated area or in a congested airway, unless at an altitude high enough to glide to a safe landing without endangering person or property"(paraphrased, but pretty close)... I was always under the impression that after phase one, my plane could do anything a certified plane could excerpt carry passengers or cargo for hire....
Thoughts?
We finished phase 1 in the 10 and flew it back to San Diego from Neosho, MO 2 weeks ago (cool pics and all that good stuff coming soon!).
I made an appointment at local FSDO here in San Diego to apply for my repaireman's cert. The FSDO is literally 300 feet from my hangar.
During the build, we didn't keep much of any kind of log, we just photographed the heck out of everything including video. I was told my many builders that a photo log would be more than adequate to prove I just spent the last 3 years building this plane.... I built it with my father in law, but I'm the builder of record...many projecs are done by partners, but only one person can get the repaireman's cert....
So, I went in to the office, with all the required info and my iPad full of no less than 2000 pictures and videos, about 300 with me in them, date stamped over the last 3 years... I apparently got the one inspector who ALSO, happened to be training a new guy. He flat out said, "I don't believe you that you built the plane". That the photos could have been faked.... Hmm... I also had him and another FSDO minion claim that experimentals could not even be flown out of Montgomery field... AT ALL.... I'll get to that..
So, he decided that the next course of action would be to come look at the plane and see if he thought I was capable of performing the condition inspection. An hour later they we at my hangar. I was expecting to be answering questions about the plane and the build, which of course I could do since I build the plane and designed everything that was off plans... INSTEAD, they were quizzing me on regs and CFRs regarding condition inspections.. Well, I haven't studied up on all that since I won't need to do it until next year.... Long story shor(ER), they denied me for now, gave me a list of FAR stuff to look up and said to come back once I knew all of that material.
Some other things that this guy said which I have found to be wrong but I also have questions about...
He said you have to have your repaireman's cert to do ANY maintenance on the plane. He got upset because I mentioned that I had opened things up to inspect during phase one, and that I had recently replaced the fuel pumps with bigger ones( a 300hp BPE IO-540 is thirsty). My research showed that ANYONE can do the maintenance on an EAB,and that you only need the cert for the condition inspection...
He said that you can't fly experimentls out of KMYF... Of course you can't do phase 1 there, but he said AT ALL... I know for a fact there's a dozen RVs on the field and at least a dozen more experimentls. I called Jerrimiah Jackson and asked if he's ever heard such a thing and he said no.. He's been flying experimentals out of MYF for 20 years... Anyone ever heard of such stupidity?
Lastly,he said I couldn't fly over ANY populated areas.. My ops lims read pretty much the same as a certified plane."can't fly over a densely populated area or in a congested airway, unless at an altitude high enough to glide to a safe landing without endangering person or property"(paraphrased, but pretty close)... I was always under the impression that after phase one, my plane could do anything a certified plane could excerpt carry passengers or cargo for hire....
Thoughts?
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