The Mission:

I am building an airplane. I really can't tell you how weird it sounds to me to hear those words in my head as I type. I am keeping this blog as an adjunct to my written log, which is required to comply with FAA requirements for Experimental Aircraft construction. My son Doug is my partner in this project. There are two goals: to build the best, safest, and yes, COOLEST, airplane we can, and to allow Doug to acquire some truly awesome experiences, not to mention building skills. Thanks for viewing.



How to use this blog

The most current post is displayed on this opening page. To access the older posts, click on the "Blog Archive" on the right hand side. The drop down menu is arranged by the month and lists the posts, by title and by date posted, in reverse chronological order.

I will arrange the hypertext links to other websites I find interesting better some day, but they are at the bottom.

If you navigate to my first post, there is a link to my luthiery pages. I miss working with wood. Aluminum is nice, but it's boring. Give me a highly figured maple any day!

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

My panel is here!!!



I received my "plug and play" panel from Aerotronics.  Thanks so much to Gary, Jason and Jeff (names listed in reverse order of how much work they did!).  They fit an incredible array of stuff on a standard Vans panel.  It's finished in carbon fiber, and features dual AFS EFIS display, TruTrak AP and backup round gauges cleverly placed next to the ribbons on the PFD that they backup.  We went with circuit breakers, rather than Vertical Power (tough call, but my technical advisor, and Aerotronics, both felt this choice would be robust).  The radio stack is pretty standard Garmin 430 WAAS, 327 mode S transponder, SL40 comm.

We kept the necessary wording on the passenger warning placard, but added the phrase, "in the opinion of the builder, it exceeds them", since that is and remains a true statement.
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