FAA Orders Can Change Things And Catch You By Surprise.
A change to FAA order 8130.2 could prohibit passenger carrying in certain experimental airplanes that include Experimental Light Sport and any airplane that is electrically powered. Here’s the full story -- so far... The FAA issues lots of regulations that go through a well-known approval process. However once those regulations become law documents known as FAA orders issue the instructions for how the regulations are to be carried out. While these FAA orders are not secret or hidden, they are not generally well known by the flying public that doesn’t work with them every day.