This should apply to airframe manufacturers too

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Ray Andraka wrote:

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I highly douby anyone would want airplanes to be regulated to the
extent that medical devices are, though we are getting close.




I'd argue that the certification process for an airframe to obtain a
type certificate is pretty close. That is part of the reason the
homebuilts have become so popular.


You mean requirments like implanted devices have to be tested in
environments that could never occur in a living human body?

My opinion is the certifaction requirements have little directly to
do with why most people build a homebuilt.

I would think the top reasons, in no particular order, a

The satisfaction of building things with your own hands and knowing
it is built correctly.

The desire to own something not commercially available.

Saving money.



I said PART of the reason. In the EAA chapter I am a member of, nearly
all the builders have said at some point along the way that part of the
reason they are building was so that they could modify and maintain
their own airplane and make it the way they wanted it. Building your
own gets you out from under a lot of the testing that goes into type
certification.