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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