REFLECTOR: Test Area (Was: Another step)

[Ron Brown]

Hiroo,

I am located on the edge of Charlotte's Class B.  I built my plane at a 
3000' runway (14A), elected to transport it to an airport about 15 miles 
away (IPJ) that is under Class B - 3600' msl.  See http://skyvector.com/ and 
enter 14A for the Airport/VOR/Fix.

I got a 50 mile radius around the home base (14A) excluding the Class B 
airspace.  There were about a half dozen airports that I was able to use 
during my 40 hour flight test.

I think if you make a reasonable request, you'll get at least what you ask 
for.  Avoid heavily populated areas/airports.

Now, get back to building!
Ron

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hiroo Umeno" <humeno at microsoft.com>
To: "Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list" <reflector at tvbf.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 11:35 AM
Subject: REFLECTOR: Test Area (Was: Another step)


This is interesting...

I have a situation where my plane is currently in the "finishing school"
getting engine and cooling work done in preparation for its first
flight.  It's "home" is 18 miles away in another field.  My
understanding of the FAR was that you can only land at one field during
the Phase 1 and will have a box somewhere nearby over sparsely populated
areas.

I would love to be able to fly the plane down to its home field once a
couple flights is done to continue its fly-off.  They have a longer
runway (enough for 747s and 777s.), it is a controlled field and have a
much better support in terms of FBOs and emergency equipments
(hopefully, I won't need their services but it is always nice to know
they're there).

It looks like there is some flexibility in the regs to make arrangements
like that.

Hiroo

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Richard Riley
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 10:45 PM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: RE: REFLECTOR: Another step

At 10:29 PM 5/9/2006, you wrote:

>Congrats from DU Al....now how ya gonna fly off
>the 40 hrs within 2 weeks so you can get this beast down to the
symposium?

I'll let you all in on a little secret.

In 99 we were finishing a plane to run at
Reno.  We did a year's worth of work in about 6
weeks.  Got it done a few days before the race.

I got a DAR who'd never inspected a homebuilt
before.  He didn't know what homebuilt flight
limitations normally looked like.  So I typed them up for him.

We got a test area that was a 25 mile radius
around Camarillo airport, where we did the first
flight.   But, we were allowed to test out of a
couple of other airports too.  We had a 25 mile
radius around Mojave and Fox, and a 10 mile corridor between them.

And 25 miles around Chino, and a corridor there.

And 25 miles around Stead.  And a corridor there.

And that's how it was that were racing at Reno
with an airplane that had it's first flight 4 days earlier.


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