On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:00:47 -0500, Jim Logajan
wrote:

Jim Logajan wrote:
The EAA has an article on the proposed changes:

http://www.eaa.org/news/2008/2008-07-15_policy.asp

"The FAA is proposing that an amateur builder fabricate a minimum of 20
percent of an aircraft and assemble a minimum of 20 percent of the
aircraft."

Mixing objective measures (e.g. percentages or fractions) without objective
definitions is absurd. Are those 20% numbers to be determined by weight, by
volume, by part count, by cost, by width, by height, by length, by labor
hours worked or avoided, or what?

At one time they said 51% of the parts and they clarified that to say
building one wing rib is as good as building all of them.
constructiong one elevator is as good as both.


They never knew what they wanted amateurs to prove and they still don't.
Roger (K8RI) ARRL Life Member
N833R (World's oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com