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December 29, 2011

FAA Issues New 51% Guidance

Resolves Vague Use Of Generic Checklists By Builders

The FAA put amateur builders into a state of regulatory limbo starting in 2008, when it announced it was rewriting its guidelines for inspectors. Inspectors evaluating rotorcraft, weight-shift aircraft and powered parachutes were instructed to use the old, vague, generic fabrication and assembly task checklist, creating a huge grey area. That vagueness appears to finally be resolved.

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