Document ID: FAA-1998-4521-0780
Agency: faa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Bill Grant
Posted Date: 2004-01-06T05:00Z

Come on people.  You have to have something more useful to do than invent non-existant problems to regulate.  The Sport Pilot initiative is a forward thinking and important contribution to aviation in this county.  In the opposite sense, this proposal is as pointless, anti-aviation, and pure bureaucratic falderal as there ever was.

There is no justification for this regulation:

-  There is no statistically significant record of accident or loss of life that demands action

-  This is not a rapidly expanding general aviation operation that suddenly popped up on the radar

-  It does not promote general aviation

-  It actively harms otherwise benign operations with no apparent benefit.

Let's face it; if you can justify allowing businesses setup specifically for commercial operations to fly a FalconJet or G5 under part 91K where they incure tremendous exposure and liability, you can't claim that someone taking the neighbor for a ride in exchange for gas money is a threat to air safety.

Take the folks that have time to think this sort of thing up and redirect their efforts toward finding the next Sport Pilot-like initiative.  How about addressing the roadblocks one encounters when attempting to get field approvals or STCs for adding safety enhancements to older aircraft?