At about the time that the AMOC was going to be issued, the savethepegasus.org website was not updated any longer. There is a lot more to the story, but since some sort of "victory" was imminent, we just kind of lost interest in keeping the record of action and FAA reaction current. It is still a great story about the "triumph" of the little guys vs. the all-seeing, all knowing OZ, or, should I say, the effin' FAA.


In a few words, that do not even BEGIN to explain the final negotiations and conclusions, the end result was that the FAA never had to explain the deviations from their own operating manuals and procedures for the issuance of this AD or explain the illegal implementation of the NPRM and AD. They also managed to avoid a Congressional hearing, in which several senior administrators would be forced to answer some rather pointed questions about bureaucratic over-reach and their accepted practice (documented) about how to lie and divert Congressional inquiries.

But, the effort successfully kept the Pegase fleet in the US flying past the 3,000 hour limit, albeit with only a 1,500 hour extension. One additional benefit resulted, when the author of the AD was booted out of the Certification office of the Small Aircraft Directorate for this and several other bizarre decisions he had promulgated through the authority of his position.


I would have been more satisfied if he had been fired, brought up on charges, tried, convicted and then shot, but them, I was pretty incensed over the situation. Now that I have calmed down some, I can take some satisfaction in my dream that he is sitting in a windowless office about the size of a broom closet, assiduously reviewing documentation that no FAA official has a larger wastebasket than to which the Government Service (GS) rating entitles.

It is worth noting that the same FAA bureaucrat was responsible for the erroneously issued Memo that interpreted the 35 year life limit on the IAR Brasov Twin Lark as a definite "throw it away" mandate. The FAA recently (October 2017) issued a statement that yhis is actually NOT the case, and the Twin Lark CAN be operated past the 35 year life based on condition inspections.

Your tax dollars at use.