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Old 12-10-2015, 07:18 PM
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Thumbs up RV at CXP

I'll send you a PM. Have a 7A at CXP, completed in August. Several friends with RV's on our field, don't know Gisnar though. Stuck in so cal but will be back as soon as the weather clears. Saturday???

Would love a ride in a glider some time😃
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Old 12-10-2015, 07:44 PM
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Would love a ride in a glider some time😃
That is fair trade am happy to do. However be careful what you wish for. A smooth ride is just gliding down to a dead stick landing which is boring. Soaring on a strong day means looking for turbulence and turning into it. I tend to make people sick. The people who are paid to give rides have figured out how to please a paying customer, but I haven't.

I have some skill. There are awards like I have a diamond badge. Going cross country is the main thing I do. My old Schweizer (think C-150) and I flew over 40,000 miles which is twice around the world. Going cross country was an obsession I got as a teenager in hang gliders and was called xc nick long before there were interweb names.

Anyways my girlfriend only went once in a sailplane and said: "no more!" Actually there were tears and screaming of 4 letter words. She used have a 182 so I expected better. The RV may be the only way we will get back in the air together.
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Old 12-10-2015, 08:59 PM
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Buying a hanger, then the plane, then learning to fly it seemed backwards at first, but maybe this is how it is done?
Nick,

You are definitely not alone. I don't have a hangar yet, but I'm building my RV before getting my PPL. I wondered for a long time if maybe I was doing it backwards, too, since most all RV builders I know are already pilots. But I thought long and hard before taking the plunge. I had good reasons for building first. And I have no regrets. And now as my RV-7A nears completion, I'm really looking forward to getting the instruction I will need and flying my own plane, that I built! I hope with the new Additional Pilot Program, I will even be able to do much of it in my own plane.

Now all I need to do is get that hangar. But I'm not worried.
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Old 12-10-2015, 09:23 PM
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Sometimes hangars are hard to get. Better to have one in advance than the other way around. You can rent it out in the mean time.

But the best solution is to start building an RV in there. Find someone to take you for a ride in their and you will see.

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Old 12-10-2015, 09:53 PM
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Nick
You will do fine. I bought the hanger first. Then an RV12. Then got the best traing from John Palese. Soloed in a month. See yesterday's post under "Reviews" Contact john here: JPFli@me.com
Call me if you lke

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Old 12-11-2015, 11:26 AM
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Go for it. I did the same thing, the sooner you get started the sooner you will be flying I great little airplane. All the Vans are good airplanes you can't miss. I'm at RTS. We all have free advise, if you can stand it. Vans kits are well supported.
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Old 12-11-2015, 11:44 AM
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Bruce, God bless you for dreaming!

Desert sky, good to meet you. Did you build yours?

I remember dreaming about building an RV or Vari Eazy as a young man and all the romance has gone. I am thinking about cost of ownership, proper training, resale value, insurance, and all whole lot of boring things that make me even less attractive to the opposite sex. Growing old is mandatory, but you all are a good reminder growing up is optional.
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Old 12-11-2015, 03:25 PM
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there is only one way, your way. good luck to the transition to the rv world. learn to post pics. we want to see what you have and are flying.
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Old 12-11-2015, 04:59 PM
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I see from your aviatar you may be feminine. I always like to recommend the book: Naomi the Aviatrix. Imagine you are wild and crazy pilot in the '30s and '40's. You die, and your son publishes your diary.

http://www.amazon.com/Naomi-Aviatrix...dp_kinw_strp_1
I will check it out. Sounds like it could be me in a former life.

A Diamond badge? I am impressed! A Glider rating is on my bucket list. I've built and flown RC sailplanes since I was a kid. (A very strange kid. )
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Old 12-11-2015, 05:59 PM
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learn to post pics. we want to see what you have and are flying.
It seems I have already told my life story so here a pic. 18 years old, building RCs and dreaming of an RV. However this is all my $600 saving could buy.

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