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08-19-2015, 11:18 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Schaumburg, IL
Posts: 5,297
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Got my pink slip today
Final sign off by the FSDO today. Woo Hoo. A surprisingly simple process. I bet the guy looked at the plane for all of 6 minutes. It was all about the paperwork for them.
Hope to do the first flight on Saturday with a Test pilot (using the new second pilot program). I have LIVED at the airport the last week getting it together. Very exciting.
Larry
RV-6A
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08-19-2015, 11:32 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dayton Airpark, NV A34
Posts: 15,420
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Congratulations!!
Larry, congrats on the pink  
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VAF 909
Rv-10, N210LM.
Flying as of 12/4/2010
Phase 1 done, 2/4/2011 
Sold after 240+ wonderful hours of flight.
"Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it."
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08-20-2015, 04:26 AM
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Fleming Island, FL
Posts: 162
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Congratulations!
May the first flight be as uneventful as the inspection!
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Con Kelley
RV7
Empennage and wings need tips
Fuselage kit "finished" (for the moment)
Finish kit and FWF in progress
Hartzell CS
Aerosport Power IO-360, Dual Pmags, AFP FM200 FI
Hangar construction at 7FL4 nearly finished.
Home construction at 7FL4 about to begin.
C-172 at KCRG (sold)
C-150 at 7FL4 (sold)
www.mykitlog.com/cakelley
www.1379.eaachapter.org
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08-20-2015, 06:19 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Garden City Texas
Posts: 878
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Let the FUN begin! Congrats!
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08-20-2015, 06:35 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Flower Mound, TX
Posts: 1,473
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Larry,
That's fantastic news! Now the real fun begins. 
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Sid "Scroll" Mayeux, Col, USAF (ret)
52F NW Regional/Aero Valley Airport, Roanoke TX (home of DR's Van Cave)
"KELLI GIRL" N260KM RV-7A tipper
Catch her on YouTube's "Because I Fly!" channel
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08-20-2015, 06:36 AM
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Locust Grove, GA
Posts: 2,627
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Congrats!
None of these guys who only look at the airplane for 6 minutes are doing any of you any favors. The inspection is not supposed to be a "test", but rather a very thorough preflight for you to insure you have a safe an uneventful first flight. At least that is how I look at it and execute it. As an example, about 50% of the aircraft I inspect have the elevator trim rigged up backwards. I inspected an RV 7 just this past week end that was backwards and he had been flying it that way for over 200 hours. He said he got used to it!
So, be careful, and don't assume anything.
Vic
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Built RV-4, RV-6, 2-RV-10's, RV-7A, RV-8, Prescott Pusher, Kitfox Model II, Kitfox Speedster, Kitfox 7 Super Sport, Just Superstol, DAR, A&P/IA, EAA Tech Counselor/Flight Advisor, CFII-ASMEL/ASES
Kitplanes "Unairworthy" monthly feature
EAA Sport Aviation "Checkpoints" column
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Author "Pre-Buy Guide for Amateur-Built Aircraft"
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08-20-2015, 06:54 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Chicago sw suburbs
Posts: 395
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Congratulations
Great to hear. Have fun.
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N9855J RV-6 Donated 2020
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08-20-2015, 07:23 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Dallas area
Posts: 10,768
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vic syracuse
None of these guys who only look at the airplane for 6 minutes are doing any of you any favors. The inspection is not supposed to be a "test", but rather a very thorough preflight for you to insure you have a safe an uneventful first flight. At least that is how I look at it and execute it. As an example, about 50% of the aircraft I inspect have the elevator trim rigged up backwards. I inspected an RV 7 just this past week end that was backwards and he had been flying it that way for over 200 hours. He said he got used to it!
So, be careful, and don't assume anything. 
Vic
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Yep, I find about the same percentage.
Actually found one RV-12 with the stabilator (not trim) rigged backwards. Builder was quite embarrassed.
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EAA Flight Advisor/Tech Counselor, Friend of the RV-1
Recipient of Tony Bingelis Award and Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award
USAF Vet, High School E-LSA Project Mentor.
RV-6 Flying since 1993 (sold)
<rvmel(at)icloud.com>
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08-20-2015, 09:42 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Windsor, California
Posts: 924
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Congrats on reaching this point in your RV journey! In light of the "paperwork" inspection you received, may I suggest that you have a couple of your more experienced chapter members give your plane a good going-over before your first flight. Another pair of eyeballs (or more) looking over your work never hurts. Congrats again!
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EAA #23982 (circa 1965) - EAA Technical Counselor and Flight Advisor; CFI - A&I
RV-12 E-LSA #120496 (SV w/ AP and ADS-B 2020) - N124DH flying since March 2014 - 940+ hours (as of September 2020)! 
V AF donation through June 2021.
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08-20-2015, 10:06 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Alberta
Posts: 84
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Congrats,
In keeping with the other folks on the forum regarding an actual inspection.
We had a " inspection party" and asked every other builder/pilot in the area to come over and inspect. Only thing they found was that we had the fuel vent line angle facing aft instead of forward. Thank goodness someone caught it.
You cannot over estimate the value of a fresh pair of eyes.
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RV-6A slow build,
serial # 21681. First flight March 1993
Dec 2019 donation paid
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