12-28-2025, 02:32 PM
Welcome Lyle. With your background, you shouldn't have too many problems completing that kit. If the cabin and interior is acceptable, then the time consuming stuff is done. I'm sure I don't need to say this but, I'd just get the instruction manual out and start at page one and use that as a checklist to do a complete QC inspection nose to tail.
I've never built an experimental aircraft start to finish. I've participated in dozens over the years, Not an FAA certified technician, but spent my entire career from High School to now in flying operations. Some builders are excellent craftsman, very knowledgeable on technical aviation engineering. And the one sure thing I'd bet on, is homebuilt aircraft run the gamut from the most technically solid, beautifully crafted, to outright dangerous and not remotely close to technically airworthy.
Luckily it sounds like you should have the training, experience, to go through your project and figure out pretty quickly.
With this new free to use forum, with the ability to query the community, free from ads, organized into the social, vs technical, hopefully many of the experts who are not and will never be on Facebook for personal reasons will discover this in due-time and re-enter the discussion and new project builders and maintainers like you and I can get some valuable information.
Sam
I've never built an experimental aircraft start to finish. I've participated in dozens over the years, Not an FAA certified technician, but spent my entire career from High School to now in flying operations. Some builders are excellent craftsman, very knowledgeable on technical aviation engineering. And the one sure thing I'd bet on, is homebuilt aircraft run the gamut from the most technically solid, beautifully crafted, to outright dangerous and not remotely close to technically airworthy.
Luckily it sounds like you should have the training, experience, to go through your project and figure out pretty quickly.
With this new free to use forum, with the ability to query the community, free from ads, organized into the social, vs technical, hopefully many of the experts who are not and will never be on Facebook for personal reasons will discover this in due-time and re-enter the discussion and new project builders and maintainers like you and I can get some valuable information.
Sam