Cessnaflyer
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I met a guy taking one westbound across Washington State. His support car left a few hours after him and still beat him to Seattle.
Aircam multi sea now possible
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z987k
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Is it though? Sounds almost like a feature. Especially for it's target owner.
You don't need a medical to fly a glider and there's no limitations like there is for LSA. Motor-glider included.
ahw01
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If you always fly it powered it shouldn't need it, just an odd prerequisite. An amphibian can give you both land and sea initials rather than needing one before the other.
z987k
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It has nothing to do with how you're flying. It has everything to do with what the paperwork says. If you look at the Pipistrel motor-gliders, most people would be like, that's a small airplane. But they've managed to register it(meeting the legal deffinitions and paperwork) as a motor glider, which is brilliant from a selling airplanes perspective IMO. Fly it like an airplane, with almost no rules and a very very cheap and low bar to entry pilot certificate.
If the airworthiness certificate says glider, you need a glider rating. Even if you drive around on the motor all day.
The difference with the amphib is it's Category is Airplane. Can you fly an amphib with just a Airplane - SEL? Yes, provided you keep it on land, you are rated in the category and the class you are using. Glider is it's own Category. For a motor glider you need a glider category rating, and I think there's an endorsement or something for the self launching part.
You could take the DPE up in it or let him tool around in it for free. If the DPE was on your payroll having him, as an employee, go get time in a company owned aircraft for company purposed would surely be incidental to the business. Additionally, the DPE might simply own one himself. When you get really niche like this, there's usually a few people involved that are very into whatever it is. Most of the DARs and DPEs I've worked with or talked to in relation to experimental aviation are quite into it themselves and don't exactly do it as a day job, but are usually on the payroll of some company for their expertise or what have you. The couple up here are full time IA's for Company X, but are a DAR with C and D privileges for Company Y and also moonlight a bit to help builders of Y kit get in the air.
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