Stockmanreef
Well Known Member
I posted this in a separate post in the General Section, but it is buried in a thread about hanging the engine. I thought that people might be interested.
I ordered my engine (thunderbolt) "at Oshkosh" last year. I placed the order with Van's on July 31, 2018 and it arrived January 3, 2019. I was not really in a rush, but I wanted to make sure that I had the engine when I wanted it and after looking at all the kits being sold, I did not want to wait on the engine.
I did the same with the panel from SteinAir. I started working with Stein Air in 12/2018 and then started getting parts in early 2018 (servos, ELT, other things to get in the plane before mounting the panel). The panel design was finalized panel around Oct 1, 2018 and received the panel on Jan 28, 2019. The panel is in the plane now and I have run all the wires through the firewall (at least I hope all of them are through). The only thing that I missed in the the original panel order was antennas. I would suggested figuring out which ones you want and if you want the ones from Stein or not. I went with whiskers for the VOR/ILS and that was a bit of a challenge to install.
One other thing to consider--the cable wire for the transponder is not long enough in the empennage kit. In my kit it reached to right behind the main stack on the panel and I wanted a remote transponder, so it was about 12" short (and that cable isn't cheap). So i clipped the end off the original cable and used it for something else--I think for the GPS antenna. And then ordered more cable wire from SteinAir.
Cheers
ken
I ordered my engine (thunderbolt) "at Oshkosh" last year. I placed the order with Van's on July 31, 2018 and it arrived January 3, 2019. I was not really in a rush, but I wanted to make sure that I had the engine when I wanted it and after looking at all the kits being sold, I did not want to wait on the engine.
I did the same with the panel from SteinAir. I started working with Stein Air in 12/2018 and then started getting parts in early 2018 (servos, ELT, other things to get in the plane before mounting the panel). The panel design was finalized panel around Oct 1, 2018 and received the panel on Jan 28, 2019. The panel is in the plane now and I have run all the wires through the firewall (at least I hope all of them are through). The only thing that I missed in the the original panel order was antennas. I would suggested figuring out which ones you want and if you want the ones from Stein or not. I went with whiskers for the VOR/ILS and that was a bit of a challenge to install.
One other thing to consider--the cable wire for the transponder is not long enough in the empennage kit. In my kit it reached to right behind the main stack on the panel and I wanted a remote transponder, so it was about 12" short (and that cable isn't cheap). So i clipped the end off the original cable and used it for something else--I think for the GPS antenna. And then ordered more cable wire from SteinAir.
Cheers
ken