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The information contained in this document is intended for the sole use of Canadian Challenger owners and is strictly proprietary and confidential.
These internet sites and forums are a benefit of having the most popular plane on the planet - no other marque has such a fabulous group of involved owners! Caveats to using these resources are that they are unaudited and unmoderated so it is up to you and only you the reader to determine if any particular content is fact or fiction, ie based on knowledge or simply opinion. It is also up to you and only you the reader to determine if suggestions for Challenger assembly, modification, maintenance and operation are not only safe and sound but also legal for the Canadian category in which your aircraft will be registered. For example, in the Canadian Advanced Ultra-Light Aeroplane category you must have the written approval of the manufacturer to make design modifications - ie anything however small which does or could impact the aircraft's structural integrity, controllability or crashworthiness. Your success, and safety, depend entirely on you!
This site is oriented towards Building Tips and Techniques and was put together by members of the FlyChallenger internet group. It has lots of useful information and as a Work In Progress it is still growing. Navigation from the home page (above) is not entirely obvious - the Site Map though is excellent. Billed as the world's largest Challenger site there are some 150 Challenger owners featured in the photo gallery! This site spawned FlyChallenger (below). The "FlyChallenger" group on Yahoo has about 3,000
members and is a But take careful heed of three warnings about using FlyChallenger! One is the tremendous volume of message traffic with many being chatty rather than informational. You can circumvent this by searching the archives on specific topics rather than subscribing to receive every single email. Another is that with 3,000 members on an open, uncontrolled list you can be sure there are some folks who may sound authoritative to the uninitiated but who actually disseminate opinions or misinformation rather than proven facts. Your mission is to differentiate between fact and fiction and determine what is safe and sound! One strategy is to wait for several answers to come in on your question so you can get a sense of the consensus of a number of members. The third warning is that a majority of the FlyChallenger members are in the United States where Challengers are operated in their Amateur-Built category or under their FAR Part 103 definition of Ultralight. In Canada most new Challengers are registered in the Advanced Ultra-Light Aeroplane category which has a much more restrictive set of regulations concerning assembly, modification and maintenance. It is the individual owner's responsibility to ascertain not just what is safe but also what is legal for his specific aircraft.
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