Another LSA question

[Witmo]

Let's suppose I built my own LSA, had it inspected and registered it as an amateur built E- LSA. With a repairman's certificate, or as an A&P, I could do the condition inspections on it. What would stop me from sticking a controllable pitch prop on it somewhere down the road. It doesn't have a type certificate that has to be complied with. Is there anything in the regulations that require me to continue to comply with all the LSA requirements ad infinitum. Would a Sport pilot no longer be able to fly it? Would the operations limitations have a statement mandating continued compliance with LSA limitations? I'm just curious. It seems that some of the LSA limitations are really arbitrary. What makes a controllable pitch prop or retracts so difficult to master that only pilots above Sport can handle it?

 

[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

"No person may operate this aircraft for other than the purpose of meeting the requirements of FAR 91.319(b) during phase I flight testing and, for the purpose of operating light-sport aircraft..." http://www.faa-aircraft-certification.com/experimental-lsa-operating.html

Change to a controllable pitch prop and you can no longer operate it as an LSA and you now have something you can part out.

 

[mkosmo]

"No person may operate this aircraft for other than the purpose of meeting the requirements of FAR 91.319(b) during phase I flight testing and, for the purpose of operating light-sport aircraft..." http://www.faa-aircraft-certification.com/experimental-lsa-operating.html

Change to a controllable pitch prop and you can no longer operate it as an LSA and you now have something you can part out.

If he built it, could he then get it recertified as an E-AB rather than an E-LSA?