There is a nervous cloud hanging over this week's ASTM Sport
Pilot F37 Consensus Standards meeting in Salt Lake City. When the
light sport aircraft community decided to climb onboard with the
ASTM International, (originally known as the American Society for
Testing and Materials), in order to deliver the mandated industry
consensus standards demanded by the FAA for a full Sport Pilot
program, the fear was that there was no way that such a standard
could be delivered soon enough after the expected rule to avoid
months, or even years, of chaos...