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Andrew M 03-06-2015 08:26 PM

Maybe a little off topic but...
 
My son and I were involved in a kids Build a Plane organization in Talkeetna Alaska. A new young man showed up so we showed him a few airplanes. A C206 with all the gizmos to see wings level, figure out where you are going, keep from running into terrain ect...
Then we walked over to the Super Cub. "See all those windows? You look out those to stay right side up, decide where you are going and not run into anything!"
I picked up an Icom 200 for a couple hundred bucks, and am going day night VFR. Cheap as possible. Being in the air on a nice day sooner beats being able to be in the air on a crappy day later.

RV9A Bill 03-06-2015 08:55 PM

Cost
 
And, as someone mentioned, an iPad with foreflight or wing x gives wonderful situational info.
Bill

hydroguy2 03-06-2015 09:02 PM

Bill R's numbers re close enough for me. I estimate by 7 cost $80K+. Subtract the fuse $26K for the QB, $22K for the motor, paint $6K. So.....

I spent roughly $30000 in stuff...off the top of my head,.... prop(7200), complete panel(7000), firewall forward (6000),



Yikes I have no idea where the other 10K went.....and don't care when I see this view. Just finish Condition Inspection yesterday. Life is good

Smilin' Jack 03-07-2015 03:58 AM

I love Mike's answer,
It is so true you make the panel what you want. I started making a decision on the panel when I first started building the plane. I bought a little each year at Oshkosh and by the time I built the Panel I had a 10 inch dynon and a 7 inch dynon and One Adhars, and Transponder.and a MGL V6 radio that works great. Over the next two years I added the Servo's and the ADS-B
So slowly I kept adding to the plane.
This is my hobby, I don't golf or have other expensive hobby's

There are no Hurst with Luggage racks, and my kids are on their own

Smilin Jack

MikeyDale 03-07-2015 06:19 AM

Simple VFR Panel including with 2 non touch 10" Dynons, ELT, VPX Sport, Wiring Harness, Switches, AP servos, EMS package...about 21,000


Interior Classic Aero Aviator Seats and interior- 5,000

New CS Prop and Gov 9,000

What got me is all the little things. Plugs, ingnition harnesses, cold air sump, prop gov, starter, flywheel, all stuff for a used engine I didnt count on having to buy. Monthly or sometime weekly orders to ACS.

I've got all my receipts and I'm gonna add it all up again someday and see where all the money went! Right now I'm too close to being finished and don't really want to know!

bret 03-07-2015 08:04 AM

Flying a 195 Hp, FI, CS 172 at the moment, I like the CS but leaning towards Catto 3 blade, what kind of difference can I expect in fuel burn between the two?

Ron RV8 03-07-2015 08:23 AM

It depends on how you get Craig to pitch the Catto. If you get him to pitch it for cruise, there should not be a significant difference in fuel burn.

The main differences with my cruise pitch Catto (vs constant speed) are:

- it takes longer to accelerate
- I have to watch my RPM on descents and aerobatic downlines

There's lots of debate on C/S vs fixed pitch, but those are the main things I've noticed...

bret 03-07-2015 03:30 PM

Hydro, like your paint, your purple is close to what I used, So, another fork in the plan would be to decide on IFR or not? That could be a whole thread in itself. I have done 3/4 of my IFR training back in the 80s with a lot of IMC but don't know if I would actually use it today, seams like the required IFR equipment would increases the cost by 15 to 25K unless?????

N941WR 03-07-2015 04:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bret (Post 965395)
Flying a 195 Hp, FI, CS 172 at the moment, I like the CS but leaning towards Catto 3 blade, what kind of difference can I expect in fuel burn between the two?

It all depends on what you do with the black and red knobs. The prop really doesn't have much to do with it.

BTW, for those of you who think building is expensive, wait until you are flying!


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