REFLECTOR: Test Area (Was: Another step)

Wed May 10 11:30:19 CDT 2006

You do need to ask for the 50 mile radius. You can also pick the airport around the fifty mile radius you want. it does not have to be where you are based as long as you are still inside the penalty box.
Jack

> 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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