Originally published at: MOSAIC Looks Like It Might Work - AVweb
New rule went into effect July 22 and will be phased in over the next few years.
âAnd as these spiffy new aircraft, with their modern panels and creature comforts begin to wash over the market, the hope is that prices will come downâ
Kind of like going into the car dealership hoping for a Cadillac at Chevy pricingâŚthe other thing that stunted LSA was the price point pushed past the target audience.
How about we maintain priority on innovation, utility and performance at a better price point? Those that want in can get in the air, those that need spiffy can check all the option blocks.
I do not see pricing to come down ever again.
Product liability claims will continue to pile up and I think the insurers will start taking a bunch more money from customers.
Great news! Iâll be interested in reading the regulations. Does one now need only a Light Sport Repairmen certificate to sign off maintenance and repair work on those aircraft, such as a Cessna 182, that can be flown by a sport pilot?
I was excited but donât see going this route now. It effectively wonât allow night flying since youâll need at least Basic Med. IFR and more than four seats are out also. If youâre only allowed one passenger what difference does it make how many seats the plane has?
I wonder why the limiting stall speed was changed from Vs1 to Vs0? It really made a lot more planes eligible for LSA. Just curious.
Jason Baker is right - itâs all about the lawyers. Why didnât Cessna just sell the Skycatchers for cheap? Isnât some money better than none? No, not when you get that kind of exposure to the Lawyers. The small firms can do it because the Lawyers, being excessively greedy, have no interest in suing someone who canât pay them millions.
Donât misunderstand, this is a great boon to aviation - it will take form outside of the existing OEMs. Maybe the best thing about the rule?
I was hoping that would be the case myself, seeing as I own a Part 23 aircraft, but the only expansion of Light Sport Repairman privileges seems to be the ability to do an annual on an experimental aircraft.
Meh. What would really change things is being allowed to use experimental avionics in my Part 23 certificated aircraft.
When it comes to the âliabilityâ issue, the new LSAs flown by Sport Pilots will be more robust better flying aircraft and thereâs only two people suing everyone. Should be less accidents and less plaintiffs. Itâs a drop in the bucket when the typical lawsuit demands tens of millions for every little infraction but, itâs a start. We all know that every industry especially the transportation industry needs some kind of tort reform.
If gov were serious about promoting aviation they would grant the same product liability shield to aircraft makers that they do to vaccine makers.
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Prices wonât come down because light aircraft canât be made at a scale that permits low prices. The market is far too small.
It is not. Once upon a time, long ago, that was an official goal of FAA. AFAIK, no government agency at any level within the US is expected to âpromoteâ aviation.
Promoting aviation is up to us in this forum, as much as it is to any bureaucrat anywhere.
FAA is mainly concerned with regulating aviation in terms of safety and also protecting the rights of airline passengers, but even that is a very distant second goalâŚ
What us folks up here in ten months of winter is when Canmosiac is enacted for the rest of us.
Phased in? Câmon, man! Letâs just git 'er done!
And local municipalitiesâŚ
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