No need for a LSA anymore as the FAA is going to do away with the
third class medical for anything 6 place and under. Ken Welter

Ken Welter, Could you expand on the FAA intention to do away with the
third class medical, it sounds like just what we need here in NZ. We
are having a lot of trouble with our outrageous and avaricious CAA (=
 FAA)they are trying to price us GA pilots out of the market ! Chris
in NZ


Basically there is a push in the US to have the FAA approve allowing
a private pilot fly an aircraft 6 places or less and 6,000 lbs or
less VFR for non-commercial use with only his drivers license as a
medical. Not that the DL has anything to do with a medical, but
theoretically if you can drive a 15 passenger van full of people,
they figure you can fly. At first the FAA said no, then we started
calling our reps in Congress. Now we are closer to getting it done.
Hopefully in the near future this obstacle for GA will be over.

But it has been a fight, and it's not over yet.

Kevin Alderman


Will that include complex and high performance aircraft under six
place as well?

James Ealey

The performance limit being discussed in legislative drafts is 14,000 ft
AMSL and 250 kt. The FAA Administrator said at Oshkosh that he hoped to
release a draft notice of proposed rulemaking by the end of the year.

David Josephson