REFLECTOR: Test Area - and "essential crew"

Richard Riley richard at riley.net
Thu May 11 00:05:30 CDT 2006


At 08:43 PM 5/10/2006, you wrote:

>just had my velocity approved by the FAA. I brought up the question 
>of essential crew and said I thought it would be safer to do the 
>test flights with one qualified pilot flying the aircraft and one 
>qualified volunteer pilot recording data. The inspector agreed. Said 
>the key word was "essential". If I thought the crewmember was 
>essential then he could be in the cockpit. I will be flying soon 
>with two in the cockpit.

Just as a personal note - please don't fly with someone else in the 
cockpit until you have a significant number of hours on the 
airplane.  I've read too many accident reports of homebuilts going in 
with 2 people on their first flight.  There's no reason for that.  


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