REFLECTOR: Test Area (Was: Another step)

Pat Shea xl340hp at yahoo.com
Thu May 11 02:01:08 CDT 2006


Steve,

Yikes! Does the EAA know about this? Obviously i'm
already at WHP but it sounds a little nutty. Are they
only trying to restrict newly certificated homebuilts
from basing there? Otherwise, how would the Van Nuys
FSDO even know you were planning to base an
established experimental at one of these airports? 

Pat

--- steve korney <s_korney at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Ronnie...
> 
> Every FSDO is different...
> 
> Here at the Van Nuys FSDO in the Los Angeles area,
> they have the power to 
> NOT let you keep your airplane at certain
> airports... Currently, if you have 
> a experimental plane based at VNY,WHP,SBA or SMO you
> can keep it there, but 
> if you try to get a new plane authorized to be based
> there, the FSDO can 
> restrict you on the new Operating Limitations...
> 
> Best... Steve
> 
> 
> 
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Ron Brown" <romott at adelphia.net>
> Reply-To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
> <reflector at tvbf.org>
> To: "Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list"
> <reflector at tvbf.org>
> Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Test Area (Was: Another
> step)
> Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 12:15:54 -0400
> 
> 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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