EvanWeeks
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...says the little voice in the back of my head. I'm contacting a flight instructor to talk about costs and availability of time in the air to get my private pilot license, and looking into building a small shed in my backyard to house a building project: a Pitts Special. I'm pricing wood and tools from Aircraft Spruce and performing the financial gymnastics (with touch-and-go permission from my wife) to line up the funds to get ANY of this done.
I must be crazy.
Good thing it's a happy sort of crazy.
Hi guys, my name is Evan Weeks, and I've caught the bug BAD. From reading in the forums here (I've been lurking a while), I gather that building from scratch rather than from the assorted pre-manufactured "kits" is the way to go for the financially challenged with time and some shop skills. What's killing me is looking at the cost of basic avionics. I had no idea a NAV/COM radio would cost that much, to say nothing of the insanity of adding a GPS.
Anyway, this is my "hello" post, to let you know I'm around, I'm reading and learning, and I may ask dumb questions from time to time.
-Evan
I must be crazy.
Good thing it's a happy sort of crazy.
Hi guys, my name is Evan Weeks, and I've caught the bug BAD. From reading in the forums here (I've been lurking a while), I gather that building from scratch rather than from the assorted pre-manufactured "kits" is the way to go for the financially challenged with time and some shop skills. What's killing me is looking at the cost of basic avionics. I had no idea a NAV/COM radio would cost that much, to say nothing of the insanity of adding a GPS.
Anyway, this is my "hello" post, to let you know I'm around, I'm reading and learning, and I may ask dumb questions from time to time.
-Evan
