rmartingt
Well Known Member
This engineer never felt that urgeBut if you’re like most engineers, “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”, and you’ll want to track every instant of time, how it was spent, and how it correlates to every other instant.
Fight this urge!!!
I didn't want to know how long or how much I spent, all I knew was that it was "more than I'd planned"
I just took hundreds of timestamped pictures along the way, many of them for purposes of note-taking (how does this go together, what did I do there, etc) or updating Dad on my progress. I also kept a selection of google docs with part numbers, notes, etc. My DAR just asked for a selection of the pictures.
When I went to the FSDO for the Repairman cert they didn't even ask me anything; they just filled out the paperwork and issued the temporary certificate. "The DAR said you built it" I was told; I guess that wa good enough for him. I spent a lot more time talking to them about what I used to do at my old job than about my airplane...
