aviatoreb Posted August 30 Report Posted August 30 Are Mooney's allowed under the new light sport rules? https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2025/july/22/light-sport-rules-expand-dramatically
Paul Thomas Posted August 30 Report Posted August 30 10 minutes ago, aviatoreb said: Are Mooney's allowed under the new light sport rules? https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2025/july/22/light-sport-rules-expand-dramatically Some money are. My J is eligible while some of the earlier and later models are not. You'll have to check individual POH to see whether a particular airplane Vs0 is 59 KCAS or less. This thread, and another referred in the 2nd post here have a lot of good info.
aviatoreb Posted August 30 Author Report Posted August 30 2 minutes ago, Paul Thomas said: Some money are. My J is eligible while some of the earlier and later models are not. You'll have to check individual POH to see whether a particular airplane Vs0 is 59 KCAS or less. This thread, and another referred in the 2nd post here have a lot of good info. Looks like mine is not. What's the point of having a rule that says the plane can be 61 dirty stall but the pilot can only fly a plane that is 59 clean?
Paul Thomas Posted August 30 Report Posted August 30 LSA airplanes do not go through the same certification process as those in the normal category. It will allow a lot of new airplanes to be sold as LSA that were currently sold as "experimental" yet came in fully assembled. I anticipate the the rules will eventually be changed to 61 for pilots as well; it doesn't make sense someone to go get their LSA certificate, call up an airplane dealer and buy an LSA, only to find out you need a PPL to fly it.
1980Mooney Posted August 30 Report Posted August 30 (edited) 2 hours ago, aviatoreb said: Looks like mine is not. What's the point of having a rule that says the plane can be 61 dirty stall but the pilot can only fly a plane that is 59 clean? And it’s Knots Calibrated Air Speed , not KIAS. KCAS is approximately 2 knots lower in clean configuration at those speeds than KIAS. This tripped up my interpretation of the new regs. all the stall charts and the green line marking on air speed are in KIAS because that’s what you measure and see while flying. Edited August 30 by 1980Mooney
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