Hi all:
At long last, I got my wife and 3 year old daughter over to the Twin Oaks Airpark (Van's Home Wing/EAA 105) pancake breakfast.
My daughter had the best time of all! She screamed with joy as every plane took of, and marvelled at my incessant comment, "These people built the airplanes themselves."
So now my daughter and wife have signed on to the five year plan of building an airplane. It has been a dream of mine since just after the womb.
My question is, am I putting the cart before the horse? While I have about 2k freefall parachute jumps (last one four years ago; we got pregnant), my flight training has been stalled somewhere close to solo-ing for over two years (my medical even expired).
Is it wise to start the build with flight training resuming either concurrently or on the horizon?
As it stands now, I am stuck between the quite different shapes and missions of the 8A and the 10. I am unsure how to evaluate my mission needs without actually having a fair amount of flying as PIC under my belt.
I have had a blast reading all of your advice to others over the last several weeks; would some of you be kind enough to offer your thoughts on my predicament?
We have a couple of months before I want to order our empennage kit; we plan to first complete an EAA seminar on RV assembly (my wife will go as well).
I hope you are all well,
Wade Lindberg
Hillsboro Oregon
At long last, I got my wife and 3 year old daughter over to the Twin Oaks Airpark (Van's Home Wing/EAA 105) pancake breakfast.
My daughter had the best time of all! She screamed with joy as every plane took of, and marvelled at my incessant comment, "These people built the airplanes themselves."
So now my daughter and wife have signed on to the five year plan of building an airplane. It has been a dream of mine since just after the womb.
My question is, am I putting the cart before the horse? While I have about 2k freefall parachute jumps (last one four years ago; we got pregnant), my flight training has been stalled somewhere close to solo-ing for over two years (my medical even expired).
Is it wise to start the build with flight training resuming either concurrently or on the horizon?
As it stands now, I am stuck between the quite different shapes and missions of the 8A and the 10. I am unsure how to evaluate my mission needs without actually having a fair amount of flying as PIC under my belt.
I have had a blast reading all of your advice to others over the last several weeks; would some of you be kind enough to offer your thoughts on my predicament?
We have a couple of months before I want to order our empennage kit; we plan to first complete an EAA seminar on RV assembly (my wife will go as well).
I hope you are all well,
Wade Lindberg
Hillsboro Oregon