Splash and Dash Searey Seaplane Delights                            May 2 11:55 Guest User - Request Membership Layout | Log In | Help | Videos | Site | Emails  Search:   Front Page Calendar Photos Add Photos News Add News File Cabinet Add File Cabinet History Add History * Searey Info * Add * Searey Info * Polls Add Polls Classifieds Add Classifieds Utilities Create a New Site  News View All News | Add News | Emoticons | Mark Unread Search News:      Category: 33,Headline News Previous Item - Kitplanes Article #2... This will go to the previous thread in this topic.       Favorite option: If you want this item to be marked as a favorite, click on the black heart.   Hold the presses!!! News ...         Next Item - A 914 Searey for sale This will go to the next thread in this topic.    Russ Garner - Apr 21,2004   Viewers  | Reply     Hold the presses!!! News flash!!!<br />Place:GL Date:Sunday April 18, 2004<br />Garner’s Landing played host to two FAA types that were checking out the Searey to see if 1500lbs of man and machine will fit into the new Light Sport Aircraft category. <br />After receiving demo flights with Kerry in a borrowed Searey they both resounded on how much they liked the Searey 'flies more like a real plane than a ultra light.'<br /><br />When asked how soon the new LSA would be released, the two FAA types said they couldn’t say.<br />But when pushed a little more they came out with this, it might be two or three months, but then again it might be as soon as a couple of weeks.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sportpilot.org/becoming/#P28_5404">http://www.sportpilot.org/becoming/#P28_5404</a>          Gene Hammond - Apr 22,2004   Viewers  | Reply     tHE RULE HAS BEEN READY FOR QUITE A WHILE, BUT THE OMB IS (WAS) HOLDING IT UP FOR SOME REASON. I SUSPECT OSHKOSH MIGHT BE A GOOD TIME TO EXPECT THE RULE - THE FAA LIKES TO MAKE SUCH ANNOUNCEMENTS AT HIGH VISIBILITY EVENTS. AS FOR THE AMPHIBS, SOME 'RELIEF' IS GIVEN FLOTAPLANES, SO THE 'MINOR WEIGHT DIFFERENCE' BETWEEN SEAREYS AND 1500#'S MIGHT BE CONSIDERED. RUSHING TO CONVERT TO LSA COULD BE COSTLY, ESPECIALY ON RESALE - CAN'T CONVERT BACK VERY EASILY.<br /><br />GENE HAMMOND          Chris Vernon-Jarvis - Apr 22,2004   Viewers  | Reply     Frank,<br />Good question. How many of the current small manufacturers will jump into LSA and how many will survive ?<br /><br />PA has survived so far but LSA may require a whole new paradigm and very different skills. If others start producing planes in numbers can PA afford not to? Totally different producing, say, 150 planes a year, finished and ready to fly. And from the forerunners it looks as though the favoured style of sportplanes will be much more sophisticated, ie, better, more professional and more modern looking finishes, better perceived aerodynamics etc. Then there is the liability angle. Does the Sportplane thing include any legislation on liability? If it does not, then surely sportplane manufacturers will surely follow the GA crowd into bankruptcy, many pilots will be those who could not achieve PPL, a fine recipe for 'incidents,' and the manufacturers of completed planes will not be able to fall back on the 'Well you built it' reply.<br /><br />It is arguable that a wise company might continue to do exactly what they do now, produce just what they need to make a good living and not bet the farm on skills as yet unlearned.          Karl Holbert - May 03,2004   Viewers  | Reply     So what is the rumor on the LSA weight limit and amphibains? I have looked the EAA and FAA sites over fairly well and am only seeing 1232 lb weight limit mentioned. I am sorry if this is a dumb question to you guys but I am new and am just trying to get my bearings on this situation.          Russ Garner - May 03,2004   Viewers  | Reply     Here is the scoop as of this week.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.eaa.org/communications/eaanews/040429_omb.html">http://www.eaa.org/communications/eaanews/040429_omb.html</a>          Russ Garner - May 03,2004   Viewers  | Reply     More<br /><a href="http://www.faa.gov/avr/AFS/sportpilot/index.cfm">http://www.faa.gov/avr/AFS/sportpilot/index.cfm</a>          Paul Friddell - May 05,2004   Viewers  | Reply     Last summer at Oshkosh, during Q &amp; A at a sport pilot forum, EAA staff members stated that they have lobbied the FAA extensively for an increase in the gross wt limit to make sure that they include all cubs, airnockers, and <br />t-crafts that would be natural candidates for the sport pilot certification. They were optimistic about a weight increase at that time.

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