airhound Posted February 3 Report Share Posted February 3 Might the latest FD models fair better in terms of wing replacement? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madhatter Posted February 3 Report Share Posted February 3 If they can't deliver new aircraft in adequate numbers I doubt they have the ability to ship major components in a reasonable time frame if at all. I guess the answer is don't wreck your plane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airhound Posted February 3 Report Share Posted February 3 Or hope the hanger withstands the elements, or the line crew doesn’t hit it, or… Anyway if the rumored coming insurance increases for the next several years happen, then it won’t matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madhatter Posted February 3 Report Share Posted February 3 If all CT aircraft have to go ELSA, insurance will become an issue. If parts are unavailable then even a small accident might be cause for the insurance company to total the aircraft. I anticipate the day soon I will only be able to get liability insurance. At least with my modified cub there is nothing that I can't fix or replace. Hopefully FD will survive but I'm not optimistic at this time. Just remember their Asian market is out of Taiwan, not a comfortable place to be at this time. Maybe relocating somewhere else might be worth looking at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airhound Posted February 3 Report Share Posted February 3 If any MFG goes by the wayside do SLSA Acft automatically default to ELSA? No processing required kind of change? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Baker Posted February 3 Report Share Posted February 3 No, there is processing, and it is forced by the FAA. There were some early S-LSA airplanes that had to do this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anticept Posted February 3 Report Share Posted February 3 Someone has to take responsibility for the airworthiness of a design for S-LSA. The responsibility can fall to an association, but in order for that to happen, they also have to have the rights to the design. The FAA stated this in the NPRM if I recall when light sport was originally proposed. It doesn't matter the entity, they just have to be capable of being responsible for ongoing airworthiness. I remember Tom Peghiny telling me over the phone that there's enough interest in flight design that if the bankruptcy ended them (the original Flight Design GmbH, not the current one), he among several others would be going that route to bid on the design rights and keep it going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airhound Posted February 3 Report Share Posted February 3 Wonder the impact on operating limitations. I’m sure a whole thread to itself….I hear they aren’t as DAR negotiable as early on….wonder if FAA has profiled them per different MFG/Model and just dictates a set list of limitations to the applicant? sorry for thread creep. I’ll stop here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madhatter Posted February 3 Report Share Posted February 3 I found ELSA the best thing I did on my CT for making changes. The bad side of ELSA is that it allows the owners to do a lot of their own maintenance, but their are a lot of people that should never touch a wrench or screwdriver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airhound Posted February 4 Report Share Posted February 4 Just have heard it was important to try to influence the determination of limitations before they got handed down back in the day….not sure how doable that is now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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