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IIRC, unless you're dealing with a trainer type, a "Letter of
Authorization" is required to fly the more powerful & faster types,
whether they are over 12,500 lbs. or not & an L of A is essentially a
Type Rating. You don't get "typed" in a military aircraft except for
cases where it has a civil version. Why avoid a Type or L of A anyway?


Is that in the FARs anywhere? I've "heard" that but haven't found any
proof.

With a hi-perf/complex/tailwheel endorsement I should be able to hop in
a Mustang and go around the patch..legally. Not smart, but legal.

As I understand the LOAs or for those a/c in which a type rating would
be required but no civil variant exists.

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Dale L. Falk

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing around with airplanes.

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