mocfly Posted January 11, 2014 Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 Eddie, I am not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastEddieB Posted January 11, 2014 Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 Got it. I misread your post - thought you were saying that YOU never used the term Experimental, and I thought, "Well, duh!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acensor Posted January 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 HI Alex, Consider this,...... ......A light sport can fly in at 120 knots or 40 knots. A GA can fly in at 120 knots or 40 knots too depending on the plane. When I approach from 5-10 miles out I'm faster than several GA aircraft so speed shouldn't be a factor. I fly at 110 knots right into the downwind...... ....A light sport aircraft is not in the FAA or the ICAO manuals for an ID. A light sport may be a high wing, low wing or a Trike, ect... FDCT isn't really a call sign like Piper, Cessna or flight design, but an ICAO identifier in the controllers manual. ... ... All true, but "Light Sport" still DOES convey, as I listed, a whole set of specific information. More than the acceptable "experimental" . But why not throw in "light sport" as well? "Flight Design Light Sport Niner Six Foxtrot Bravo"? Just two syllables extra and still educating the controllers and listeners. Actually even more.... as they've at least learned that a Flight Design is a Light Sport, which could well be more than they knew before. ;-) ... Bet you money that if you walk into FBOs (other than your own or others where a CT is based) and ask pilots and staff, "what's a Flight Design aircraft" and "what's a Light Sport" you'll get more, and more reasonably accurate, answers to the latter question. And that FDCT pretty good odds it draws a blank when you ask "what would you be looking for if you were told there's an FDCT at your altitude at 2 o'clock?" Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug G. Posted January 11, 2014 Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 I use "FDCT Light Sport" when I am asked to "repeat aircraft type" by ATC. I am assuming they have a way of looking it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT4ME Posted January 11, 2014 Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 When you specify an aircraft identifier the letters can be matched by the controller from the aircraft identifier database or the extended database that accepts ICAO codes. A couple of briefers have told me the system will allow them to enter any code beginning with a letter. Whether or not they try to match an actual code has a lot to do with the controllers interest or knowledge of aircraft types. Officially, Light Sport Aircraft barely even show up in the FAA databases. The identifiers, if any, come from the ICAO database, and it only describes you to the controller as a "single-engine, land-based, piston-powered, aircraft less than 15,000 pounds". Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anticept Posted January 11, 2014 Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 I've been called a remos too. I've also been called a :angry: Remos at Oshkosh I've been called a remos too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug G. Posted January 11, 2014 Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 I've been called worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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