X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: "Marvin Kaye" To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 10:34:51 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from wind.imbris.com ([216.18.130.7] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c4) with ESMTPS id 864823 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 10:30:28 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=216.18.130.7; envelope-from=brent@regandesigns.com Received: from [192.168.1.100] (wireless-216-18-135-19.imbris.com [216.18.135.19]) (authenticated bits=0) by wind.imbris.com (8.12.11/8.12.11.S) with ESMTP id j3BETafI061672 for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 07:29:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brent@regandesigns.com) X-Original-Message-ID: <425A89CF.3080602@regandesigns.com> Disposition-Notification-To: Brent Regan X-Original-Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 07:29:35 -0700 From: Brent Regan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: Lancair Subject: Re: Chelton EFIC-SV IFR Certification Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------090001050005010909010308" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090001050005010909010308 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Richard writes: <<>> In theory, yes. In practice you would have to demonstrate to the Administrator that your airplane met certain minimum standards. I believe the process is called "certification". The EAA has some relevant information at the following link. http://members.eaa.org/home/homebuilders/faq/Equipping%20a%20Homebuilt%20for%20IFR%20operations.html Regards Brent Regan --------------090001050005010909010308 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Richard writes:

<<<Does that
not give the Administrator discretion to approve an
EFIS-SV for IFR navigation? >>>

In theory, yes. In practice you would have to demonstrate to the Administrator that your airplane met certain minimum standards. I believe the process is called "certification".

The EAA has some relevant information at the following link.

http://members.eaa.org/home/homebuilders/faq/Equipping%20a%20Homebuilt%20for%20IFR%20operations.html

Regards
Brent Regan
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