Another new RV-6A owner
 

Hi from Perth, Western Australia

Long time lurker now with a reason to introduce myself and my new (to me) aircraft, and to thank everyone who has posted here to create a valuable knowledge base that contributed to my decision to buy an RV and also to be quite comfortable with that decision.

I had envisaged buying in the US and/or flying my new aircraft on an epic two-day flight home from the eastern states of Australia. But ultimately I found an RV6A at a local airfield. The pre-buy inspection went well and combined with the accessibility of it, including the option of taking over the hangar spot, I ran out of reasons not to buy it.

It's a locally built 1998 model with a standard O320/FP prop configuration. I like that it has manual flaps and trims which I find ads something for the pilot that was missing in the highly competent but uninspiring G1000 equipped Cessna's I was renting.

My wife has been very supportive of the RV decision and is looking forward to her first flight in it when I complete transition training. In the mean time she has been working through colour samples from Classic Aero.

We have a few upgrades planned but I didn't waste any time upgrading the front end. I was a little spooked about the nose wheel issue due to there being few sealed runways in Western Australia and also because I planned to home-base at an unsealed airfield. In the first week of ownership I ordered a Beringer nose wheel from Aeromotive in New Zealand and of course the nose job and lip skid from anti-splat.

Looking forward to many flying adventures and enjoying the good company and information here at VAF.

Photo coming right up.

Cheers Mal

Photo (I hope)
 

Nice
 

Congratulations Mal, and welcome to VAF.

Good move on the nose job and skid. RV 6's have very effective controls and you can keep the nose light for a long ways with full up elevator.

Best,

Mal:

Congratulations and good luck with your new RV-6! Like you, I am a new owner and have really been enjoying the plane. I'm sure you will too. Looking forward to seeing some pictures.

Take care down there,
Hank

Hey neighbor
 

Hey Mal

I noticed a picture on whitegum facebook couple of days ago, I believe its you with the your new toy at whitegum farm?

I got my RV6 hangared in bindoon, about 16min flight from you. Feel free to drop in one day if your looking for a spot to fly 2.

Enjoy the new machine

AJ

Thanks fellas
 

That was probably me AJ. We've been close to the white gum crowd for a few years and I relocated the RV from Northam to white gum on Saturday. Despite the lumpy conditions over the weekend it handled 14/32 well and with the nose wheel mods I feel reasonably confident operating from there. Thanks for the invite, will definitely drop into Bindoon one weekend, I've seen photos of your 6 and would love to see it in the flesh. Say hi to Werner and Renae.