First time builder. I've been happily (most of the time) banging away at rivets. I'm currently working on riveting the tail and fuse together. I started looking ahead at when to order the finish kit, given the long lead times. Looking at the tasks it seemed to me that the big items were canopy and cowl. Fitting the cowl requires an engine. Engines prices are going up in two weeks. Order your prop with an engine and get $1000 off. crud, the snowball is halfway down the hill and I can't catch up. Now I'm wondering if I should order the expensive stuff.
Spent the night on this website trying to get a feel for going forward. I'm pretty much stock everything, but using flyled lighting.
I'm also looking at painting it myself and will probably do that at home prior to taking it to the airport because I have a large compressor here, but only have 20A service at the hangar. So that also begs the question, when did you paint? I could do the wings and tail parts now prior to assembly, possibly paying an autobody shop to paint them.
I'm also planning on doing a Dynon panel myself, probably VFR and upgrade later if I want to.
This thing is starting to get real for me. I think that this is one of the reasons that I bought the 14, like many 1st time builders you don't know what you don't know and I thought the 14 would give me the best chance to finish. Just feeling overwhelmed today.
Spent the night on this website trying to get a feel for going forward. I'm pretty much stock everything, but using flyled lighting.
I'm also looking at painting it myself and will probably do that at home prior to taking it to the airport because I have a large compressor here, but only have 20A service at the hangar. So that also begs the question, when did you paint? I could do the wings and tail parts now prior to assembly, possibly paying an autobody shop to paint them.
I'm also planning on doing a Dynon panel myself, probably VFR and upgrade later if I want to.
This thing is starting to get real for me. I think that this is one of the reasons that I bought the 14, like many 1st time builders you don't know what you don't know and I thought the 14 would give me the best chance to finish. Just feeling overwhelmed today.