Yeah it’s not that big of a deal to put skis on an airplane. Talk to any reasonably experienced IA.Does anyone know of or heard about a pair of Datum Skis being field approved?
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Does a FA typically involve the FAA?Did a little research. Yep you’ll have to involve the FAA on those skis.
Unfortunately typically it does.Does a FA typically involve the FAA?
In 1949, "approved Type" meant Type Certificated under CAR 15. All those CAR 15 Type Certificates were chang4ed to the current TSO system (not sure when, but I suspect shortly after the FAA Act of 1958). Under the TSO system, for skis to meet TSO C28 they have to meet the strength and performance requirements of NAS 808. Since I don't subscribe to the NAS standards, I don't have any idea what is included in NAS 808. If you really want to know AIA sells the NAS808 in digital form for $63.
Hey dga
What's your view on the last part of paragraph 3.365? While 3.364 specifically states that skis need to be approved, the last part of 3.365 calls out procedures to deal with non approved skis.
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I hadn't read the ski requirements for the earlier CAR 3 version. Interesting that 3.365'non-type certified skis. the CAR 3 reissue from 1956 does not have 3.365! That is why establishing Certification Basis is so important. My approach would be to show that the skis meet the requirements of CAR 15. When I was working with a guy a couple years ago to try and certify Summit skis, Summit would not provide any data that could be used to show they met the CAR 15 requirements. Without the data, you are pretty much stuck in the water. Maybe they have changed their tune since I contacted them. the 1937 version of CAR 4 only states items that are required to be certified shall be certified under CAR 15. It is interesting that CAR4 and CAR4a both don't specifically address skis.
Seems the CAA interchanged terms quite often. There are some places where they state "approved" in one sentence, and then point to CAR 15 as the method of approval in the next. Guess they didn't have as many lawyers working for the federal government back then!
Would they accept you performing the tests required by CAM/CAR 15? The testing seems pretty straight forward.
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