John,

I support your ideas and feelings concerning the 51% ruling. I am currently finishing a Lancair 360 that I purchase from another builder.  As a Board member of the Classic Jet Aircraft Association (CJAA), I can tell you that we are working hard to express our concerns about changes the FAA wants to make in the Experiment Exhibition category.  We are finding there is an old theme only with more vigor .... "REGULATE, REGULATE, REGULATE."  This is not the only place that I am seeing a revival in the FAA.  In fact, last week prior to an airshow that I was flying in, FAA inspectors saw my aircraft in a hanger having a pitot static check.  They took the liberty of going through my logbooks with out me being present.  All was well but this in my opinion is quite aggressive.  Now this may be an isolated incident, but they also enforced "essential crew only" for the airshow.  We have flown with a spotter in our rear seat for years, if there is more then one aircraft in the air at the same time, especially if there is more than 200kts difference in airspeed.  One of the FAA's concerns on this issue was liability ... what if the aircraft crashed ... there would be two dead instead of one.

This pressure to regulate and enforce is coming down from congress.  If we want to get anything done, or our voices heard, it will not happen by writing or working with the FAA.  The CJAA has taken this approach for years with little results.  Our conclusion, take our concerns to Washington.  Of course, as you all know this takes money!

Regards,

John Kezele
Still building 51%

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