Alexia
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as some of you may know, i have plans to build a homemade plane.
well, after calculating the cost of such a project i came to a conclusion that i can't do it because i can't afford the engine so i almost settled on a lame hang glider until i came up with a briliant idea to use a rocket because it's literally a hundred times cheaper (yes literally, i did the math) and a hundred times cooler.
anyway, i'm not a rocket expert so i asked for some guidance on a rocketry forum and immediately got bombarded with about 50 replies saying crap like "this is a horrible idea, you'll kill yourself, i bet this guy is a troll, don't do this.."
among those were also a bunch of comments saying how i need certain high level certificates and FAA permits to launch just a rocket on its own with no cargo and how a manned flight would require a whole shitload of additional paperwork on top of all that.
now that i know all that i'm wondering something: is it even possible to legally do what i'm planning? i mean, i don't think any aviation administration would ever approve a launch of a manned rocket boosted aircraft that was entirely homemade out of hardware store materials.
i'd have to waste years of my life just to acquire that damn "L3" certificate thing to legally launch unmanned rockets, even more years for flight training, and on top of that another bunch of years to get the license to operate a real manned rocket. that's at least a decade of time wasted and i already spent two decades just dreaming of such a project.
all that crap convinced me it's impossible for me to do it "by the book" and that it'd be a whole lot faster, cheaper, and actually possible to just do it my way and worry about the government later
well, after calculating the cost of such a project i came to a conclusion that i can't do it because i can't afford the engine so i almost settled on a lame hang glider until i came up with a briliant idea to use a rocket because it's literally a hundred times cheaper (yes literally, i did the math) and a hundred times cooler.
anyway, i'm not a rocket expert so i asked for some guidance on a rocketry forum and immediately got bombarded with about 50 replies saying crap like "this is a horrible idea, you'll kill yourself, i bet this guy is a troll, don't do this.."
among those were also a bunch of comments saying how i need certain high level certificates and FAA permits to launch just a rocket on its own with no cargo and how a manned flight would require a whole shitload of additional paperwork on top of all that.
now that i know all that i'm wondering something: is it even possible to legally do what i'm planning? i mean, i don't think any aviation administration would ever approve a launch of a manned rocket boosted aircraft that was entirely homemade out of hardware store materials.
i'd have to waste years of my life just to acquire that damn "L3" certificate thing to legally launch unmanned rockets, even more years for flight training, and on top of that another bunch of years to get the license to operate a real manned rocket. that's at least a decade of time wasted and i already spent two decades just dreaming of such a project.
all that crap convinced me it's impossible for me to do it "by the book" and that it'd be a whole lot faster, cheaper, and actually possible to just do it my way and worry about the government later