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To be fair, “homebuilt” or technically “amateur built” is a category defined by the FAA. So homebuilt is the accurate term for this story. https://www.faa.gov/

To be fair, “homebuilt” or technically “amateur built” is a category defined by the FAA. So homebuilt is the accurate term for this story. https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/gen_av/ultralights/amateur_built/amateur_regs/ https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/gen_av/ultralights/amateur_buil...

Someone1234 7y ago
What does the FAA (and their definitions) have to do with a story in the BBC about a South African aircraft kit flown by a South African teenager, written by a journalist living in Cape Town? Those definitions don't even apply to all of North America, let alone Europe, or Africa.
- briandear 7y ago
  The question was about the validity of the term “homebuilt,” the point is that there is regulatory precedence for such a term. The British use a similar term. https://www.caa.co.uk/General-aviation/Aircraft-ownership-and-maintenance/Types-of-aircraft/Amateur-built-aircraft/ https://www.caa.co.uk/General-aviation/Aircraft-ownership-an... As does South Africa: http://www.caa.co.za/Airworthiness%20Documents/FAQ%20-%20Amateur-Built%20Aircraft.pdf http://www.caa.co.za/Airworthiness%20Documents/FAQ%20-%20Ama... Since HN is an American site, a reference to the FAA is helpful. I didn’t have time to look up regs for Egypt, but the point is that amateur built aircraft is defined by regulation and doesn’t necessarily mean what people want it to mean. In aviation, homebuilt is exactly how people refer to kitplanes.
  - leadingthenet 7y ago
    > The question was about the validity of the term “homebuilt,”. Ok, and that's fine. But the headline mentions "homemade", not "homebuilt", which in my mind changes the meaning significantly.
- sokoloff 7y ago
  In the largest airplane market in the world (by numbers), the aircraft would be called an E-AB (Experimental-Amateur Built) or colloquially/more commonly "a homebuilt". It does not seem unreasonable to use the same language when describing that same accomplishment being done elsewhere.

Someone1234 7y ago

What does the FAA (and their definitions) have to do with a story in the BBC about a South African aircraft kit flown by a South African teenager, written by a journalist living in Cape Town? Those definitions don't even apply to all of North America, let alone Europe, or Africa.

briandear 7y ago
The question was about the validity of the term “homebuilt,” the point is that there is regulatory precedence for such a term. The British use a similar term. https://www.caa.co.uk/General-aviation/Aircraft-ownership-and-maintenance/Types-of-aircraft/Amateur-built-aircraft/ https://www.caa.co.uk/General-aviation/Aircraft-ownership-an... As does South Africa: http://www.caa.co.za/Airworthiness%20Documents/FAQ%20-%20Amateur-Built%20Aircraft.pdf http://www.caa.co.za/Airworthiness%20Documents/FAQ%20-%20Ama... Since HN is an American site, a reference to the FAA is helpful. I didn’t have time to look up regs for Egypt, but the point is that amateur built aircraft is defined by regulation and doesn’t necessarily mean what people want it to mean. In aviation, homebuilt is exactly how people refer to kitplanes.
- leadingthenet 7y ago
  > The question was about the validity of the term “homebuilt,”. Ok, and that's fine. But the headline mentions "homemade", not "homebuilt", which in my mind changes the meaning significantly.
sokoloff 7y ago
In the largest airplane market in the world (by numbers), the aircraft would be called an E-AB (Experimental-Amateur Built) or colloquially/more commonly "a homebuilt". It does not seem unreasonable to use the same language when describing that same accomplishment being done elsewhere.