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"Jeff Franks" wrote: Just wondering. Is it possible (read practical) to take a certified aircraft (C172 for example) and have it "demoted" to an Experimental? It's possible and is done quite a bit for specific purposes. An example would be many aircraft in Alaska that are operated in the "Restricted" category allowing them to carry things like canoes strapped to the floats, plywood in a rack under the belly, etc. Being in the "Experimental" category has some restrictions. You operate under a letter from the FAA that outlines "Operating Limitations". Some of the restrictions that apply to a/c operated as "Experimental" are no operation for hire, no skkydiving allowed, you may or may not be able to carry passengers other than required crew, no operation over densely populated areas or in congested airways, VFR only. There may also be restrictions on how far from home you can go. As another poster mentioned, when it comes time to sell unless the buyer wants an experimental airplane you either have the expense of getting the airplane back to "Standard" or reduce the price. -- Dale L. Falk There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing around with airplanes. http://home.gci.net/~sncdfalk/flying.html |
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Being in the "Experimental" category has some restrictions. You operate
under a letter from the FAA that outlines "Operating Limitations". Some of the restrictions that apply to a/c operated as "Experimental" are no operation for hire, no skkydiving allowed, you may or may not be able to carry passengers other than required crew, no operation over densely populated areas or in congested airways, VFR only. There may also be restrictions on how far from home you can go. Well, it depends... our plane is flown under "experimental" (it's an RV-6) but we can carry one passenger (since there are only 2 seats), could fly IFR if we had the instrumentation (but we don't, at least right now)... also, the "densely populated areas or in congested airways" limitation no longer applies, since we're out of the flight-test period. And we can fly anywhere we wanted to. However, we still cannot operate anything for hire. |
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"Jeff Franks" wrote
Just wondering. Is it possible (read practical) to take a certified aircraft (C172 for example) and have it "demoted" to an Experimental? Seems there are LOTS of great options out there for non-certified flight instruments (EFIS's and such) available for not much more than a song and a dance, but you can't put them in a certified plane (my understanding anyway). If I'm a fair weather, non-commercial pilot, why would I care if the FAA stamped my alternator or not? Cause if they do, the price jumps 500% for the same part that's on my Dodge. (all that said, I understand that the certification is there for safety purposes and that I will lose the "promise" of the FAA saying that its a well proven part). First off, the alternator is not the same as on your Dodge - no unless the Dodge you drive is 20+ years old. So basically your aircraft alternator is significantly worse than the alternator on your Dodge. Second, if you make an experimental out of a certified airplane (rather than building one from scratch or a kit) you get operating limitations that are pretty draconian, and basically make the airplane useless. As an example, you can't go more than 300 miles from home unless you're going to an exhibition, and every trip you make for the year must be scheduled in advance. This is done to keep people from doing exactly what you propose. Michael |
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