Gross Weight Knot Operating Limitations 
Plane and Pilot
JUNE 13, 2025
Known as the Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certification, it sounds like—and is—a regulation about aircraft, but it also has an entire section on pilot privileges and operating limitations. One major shift for MOSAIC LSA is higher gross weight, although no limit is specified.
Plane and Pilot
JANUARY 16, 2025
The trouble is this openness only applies to the aircraft approval, and not to the regulations governing pilot certification or operating limitations. The proposal floated by the FAA has stall speeds capped at 54 knots calibrated airspeed in the clean (or no-flaps) configuration. The FAA kept that as an inside job.
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