Experimenter

June 2013

Experimenter is a magazine created by EAA for people who build airplanes. We will report on amateur-built aircraft as well as ultralights and other light aircraft.

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Hangar Debrief Randy Hooper, lef, talks about transition training with fellow Homebuilt Aircraf Council member Joe Gauthier. Offering Training in Your Experimental Amateur-Built Aircraft How to obtain a Letter of Deviation Authority By Randy Hooper A better trained pilot is a safer pilot, so it's no surprise that the EAA, along with the FAA and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), recommend that all builders and subsequent owners of experimental aircraft receive transition training before their first solo flight. However, transition training can be difficult to find or simply unavailable for a specific model of aircraft. The main reason for this is the FAA's dim view of using experimental aircraft for compensation or hire. FAR 91.319 makes this pretty clear: "(a) No person may operate an aircraft that has an experimental certificate ----- EAA Experimenter 41

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