Brodhead Pietenpol Association

Original Posted By:>> ----- Original Message ----- "Mark Blackwell"
To:pietenpol-list(at)matronics.comSubject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Want to Build a Corvair Piet? I've Got All the Books/ManualsYou'll NeedHello, I'm looking for Jim Markle in TX. Please get ahold of me at 302 462 5251or gnwac(at)earthlink.net We had chatted and met at BH 2004 or 05. Thanks, Greg Menoche-----Original Message----->From: Mark Blackwell >Sent: Oct 6, 2006 1:45 PM>To: pietenpol-list(at)matronics.com>Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Want to Build a Corvair Piet? I've Got All the Books/ManualsYou'll Need>>>Most people at some point develop medical issues that come with life. >Some are not hard for the FAA to deal with, but many can be very >unpredictable in the response you get from the FAA. Your family doctor >or your own doctor won't have a clue about the FAA paperwork. They >don't know what's allowed and what isn't. What forced me out of the air >was some eye surgery that left me with a partial vision loss in one >eye. Im legal to drive without glasses. Everyone else tells me Im >healthy. They FAA says you either have 2 eyes with normal vision or >only one eye. To get certified with one eye means a great deal of >paperwork, and a medical flight test. The medical flight test alone >would likely cost more than I can afford. That does not count the tests >that would be needed which may or may not be covered with insurance. >That is assuming that they do not consider the risk of a reoccurance to >be so high as to deny me then I am totally out of luck. Yes there is >some guidelines, but each case can be at the mercy of the person looking >at it. Blood pressure, heart conditions ect are other areas where its >just not that cut and dried.>>I might be willing to try it IF light sport didn't exist. Try renting a >LSA? Around here its nearly impossible and if you do find one its >condition is likely to be suspect. It left me looking at building, >which Id really rather not do either but likely I have little choice if >I continue to fly at all. Right now Im not flying till I get >relocated and see what is in the new location.>>Gene & Tammy wrote:>> >>>> I don't understand how Light Sport can be ending flying careers? If >> you go to your own doctor BEFORE you go to the FAA Medical examiner >> you will know whether you can pass your flight phyical or not. Why >> take a chance.?>> Just my two cents worth>> Gene

Original Posted By: "Gene & Tammy"
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Engie choicesSeveral years ago in the Buckeye newsletter there was a Piet calledPoplar Piet. It had a 2.5 Chv 4 banger. I think it is an engine used inS-10 pickups. The big thing about the airplane and this article was thatthe bulder found a Poplar tree, cut it down, sawed it up , milled it andbuilt the airplae from it. I could have cared less about that. I wantedto know everything tere was to know about the engine conversion, butnothing was ever said about (the most important part ) that. It flew alot, even by a guy who was on the list for a while, but did't know muchabout the engine. The airplane was later crashed with a fatility. theysuspect the passenger somehow ran a fowl of the thtottle linkage justafter take off. I would have loved to known more about that conversion.Leo S. Ks. ________________________________________________________________________________

Original Posted By: "Mark Blackwell"
Mark,Lots of good points. Guess I'm lucker than most as my Dr. is also a pilot and seems to have a good handle on what the FAA will and will not.If you don't want to build then why not buy one already built? Lots of really good ones out there for less than you can build one for.Just a thought.Gene N502R----- Original Message -----

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Original Posted By: greg menoche
Jim should not be hard to find. I just saw him last week at his home in oklahoma.You may want to post his name in the subject line of your post to get his attention.JohnSent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message-----