Want to fly RV-10 in Colorado
 

I am an aspiring RV builder, living in Denver, Colorado. My wife and I have been planning to build for a couple years now, and I am very close to pulling the trigger on an RV-10 kit. However, I really want to fly in one before I commit.

Back in February, my wife and I took a vacation to the Vans factory in Portland to get a ride in the 10, but the weather made that impossible (nice to see the factory though - See Trip Post "Pilgrammage to Portland").

Then I took vacation out to Oshkosh for a week this year, in hopes I might get a demo ride in the RV-10, but the people in the Vans tent told me they had given all of the the test flights on Monday (I arrived Wednesday AM).

So now I sit... I'm excited about building a Vans, but I'm worried that the feel of the 10 will be too mushy and not as responsive as I'm looking for. My wife wants a 4-seater, but I just can't make the choice until I know for sure how it will fly. Is there anyone in Colorado with an RV-10 they are willing to take me up in for a demo flight? Please PM me...

You should have stopped by the RV-10 HQ at Camp Scholler. You probably could have hooked up with somebody to give you a ride.

bob

You might consider calling the EAA chapter 43 guys. The chapter President has an RV-10 up at Erie, and maybe he knows someone willing to give you ride.

http://www.eaa43.com/officers.htm

Depends on what your used to flying...
 

From 90 hrs in a 172 to the .5 hr RV-10 demo ride at snf 2009 with Joe Blank(signed up at 8am Monday morning)...just no comparison in the amount of room, visibility, power, vibration level, very light in pitch/roll. Working on ailerons. It just takes lots of money/time but will be worth it in the end even with the high insurance/taxes/fuel. Definitely recommend to fly it and see for yourself.

Ride in an RV-10
 

I plan on being at KAPP on September 9, 2010. PM me a phone number and I will give you a call to see if we can set up something.

RV-10 Ride
 

Thanks. That's very helpful. I looked in the Vans White Pages and didn't see a single person in Colorado listed who has a 10 (in any stage, let alone flying). Thanks. I'll check it out..

Mike

Scott's RV-10
 

The Chapter 43 site shows Scott's plane as being in the build stage. I knew a guy named Scott who was building a 10 who used to work at McAir Aviation. Is this the same guy?

Mike

Bob,

Yeah. I missed out on several RV related events that I've since heard about later. We were trying to meet up with several guys from Colorado too, but kept missing them. I never really made it over to Camp Scholler because it was my first time to Osh and I was "busy" pretty much every minute of every day. I think I slept for 2 days straight after I came home! I'm already looking forward to next year.

Mike

KAPP?
 

Russ,

I'm not familiar with KAPP. Did you mean KAPA (Centennial, CO)?

Mike

Jumping in...
 

Hey Mike! Been awhile. Not going to wait until I finish mine to come fly? :p

If you do find someone, let me know, I'd like to tag along.

There's a couple other -10 builders in our local EAA301, one is supposed to be flying by now, the other was ahead of me by a lot but I don't know where he is now. You might post your request over on the Matronic's forum, the flying guy's a regular there but not here. Doubt he's done with his test phase yet though.

Dwight