Dbro172
Well Known Member
Don't ever do that.
As they say, finish as much as possible before first flight because after that all you want to do is fly. So as I built I stuffed every receipt in a three ring binder and have never taken the time to ever go back and add them up until now. The binder even included receipts for things such as tools, replacement parts for various do-overs and lumber to construct wing racks. There must have been about 25 different vendors overall. Now I have a spreadsheet with all the totals.
I always kept a tally in my head (so I thought) and when people would ask, sometimes I would share that figure, depending on who/why they were asking. Of course people always had their own guesses too. I always got a kick out of the guy who says "so that must have been what, about $30-35k?" And you just have to smirk to that.
I can say this though; to my surprise, the final total was about $20k more than that tally I kept in my head! Heck, there must be 3-5 grand just in shipping costs.
Anyway, it was kind of a fun excercise, at least Now I know.
As they say, finish as much as possible before first flight because after that all you want to do is fly. So as I built I stuffed every receipt in a three ring binder and have never taken the time to ever go back and add them up until now. The binder even included receipts for things such as tools, replacement parts for various do-overs and lumber to construct wing racks. There must have been about 25 different vendors overall. Now I have a spreadsheet with all the totals.
I always kept a tally in my head (so I thought) and when people would ask, sometimes I would share that figure, depending on who/why they were asking. Of course people always had their own guesses too. I always got a kick out of the guy who says "so that must have been what, about $30-35k?" And you just have to smirk to that.
I can say this though; to my surprise, the final total was about $20k more than that tally I kept in my head! Heck, there must be 3-5 grand just in shipping costs.
Anyway, it was kind of a fun excercise, at least Now I know.
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