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Paul K 12-16-2016 02:03 PM

Hey Bob,

I know the owner and the plane! Chris belongs to our chapter and will be bringing the plane to us at Sparta often. I'll keep an eye on both of them!!!

Hope to see more of you on line and future OshKosh visits

rv7boy 12-16-2016 03:30 PM

Good job, Bob! Looking forward to reading the next chapter...

David-aviator 12-17-2016 06:59 AM

Interesting last flight report Bob.

Is this the beginning of a RV-8 project?

You're much younger than me, I know you can do it. :)

LettersFromFlyoverCountry 12-17-2016 01:32 PM

No, having no likelihood of getting a special issuance renewal, the RV-8 is out.

RV-12 for me.

revenson 12-17-2016 02:22 PM

Enjoyed reading your last flight Bob. I'm curious, what was your oil temp that cold flight?

And good luck with the 12!.

6 Gun 12-17-2016 06:48 PM

Letters
 
Ahh the saga continues.RV12
Bob

chrisgr 12-18-2016 02:39 PM

I'm the guy who was waiting for Bob on the ground in Grand Rapids. We had been frustrated by the weather for weeks, and that Thursday looked rather iffy to me. I was sitting in my car by my hangar, monitoring Bob's progress on http://www.rivetbangers.com/aprs/track.php?call=N614EF, and watching gray clouds above and snow blowing in a stiff wind on the ground. Bob was navigating between the bands of snow coming off of Lake Michigan, but it didn't look promising from where I sat.

Then the sky above me cleared up -- much better than earlier. Just then I got a text from Bob saying that he had landed in Hastings, 20 nm southeast, because GRR was IFR. I quickly called him to let him know it looked VFR from the ground and he decided to give it a try. Thank goodness, the weather held out and the controllers at GRR let him in.

Here's a picture of Bob in 614EF after taxiing to my hangar. You can see low clouds moving in from the west -- they held off just long enough.



https://www.flickr.com/photos/150313.../shares/z0806T

chrisgr 12-18-2016 03:29 PM

Thanks -- how did you get the photo to embed? I couldn't do it. (I think this is a recurring question on VAF.)

chrisgr 12-18-2016 04:21 PM

Thanks for the help
 
Mucho thanks.

Cooperd0g 12-19-2016 08:43 AM

Did you consider waiting until the new medical rules took effect? However, like you said, you seem to like building and starting a new RV-12 lets you build and not worry about the new rules.


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