LightSport Aircraft

Now here is some good news for those of you who would like to build and are tired of reading about how people got there fabulous aircraft through buying parts and services that are simply out of reach from a financial perspective. 

I was glad to read an E mail today that announced EAA is resurrecting the EXPERIMENTER Magazine in an electronic format.  Those of you who are just beginning your journey into building and flying your own homebuilts will likely be encouraged to continue on the journey by having access to this.

The editor is Patrick Panzera who states the goal is “to bring back the hard-core, hands-on experimental aviation that we all miss.”

Those of us who have been long time EAA Members have watched the organizational focus transcend from grassroots low cost and sometimes labor intensive building right into elaborate and expensive machines that are simply too cost prohibitive to consider.  Patrick says, “There won’t be stories about $20k paint jobs, the $75k certified engines, full leather interiors and all those hired-gun aircraft that we’ve all grown tired of seeing in print.”

The EXPERIMENTER of the past and hopefully of the future has focus on the things that are foreseeable to interested and capable people wanting to build it themselves.  We all don’t have the kind of cash required for elaborate and pricey.  Patrick says the magazine will have one-of-a-kind projects, plans-built articles, modifications, improvements and stories of success and failures.  I truly do miss the learning part of EAA.  I can afford to build, but certainly don’t have interest in spending upwards of $100,000 on a sleek fast composite design with complex systems and major dollars invested for hi tech avionics.      
Patrick also states that Paul Poberezny is taking an active role in this.  Most of you who have been around homebuilts for years know that Paul is a true grass-roots experimental aviation professional.

The January 2009 issue can be found on this link. Read through the entire article and be sure to respond to the survey.  Pass the word to your friends and let EAA know we would like to get back to KEEPING IT SIMPLE.

http://eaa.org/experimenter/issues/0901.html 

Pat guarantees that all EAA eyes and ears are on this effort and that your comments will be read by the editorial staff at EAA.  It sounds like a great opportunity to help EAA get back on track! 

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