Finally Saying Hi!

[tmason]

It must feel good to get it running after all the years.Side markers on the rear but not on the front seems odd?Please show photo's of the interior when you get a chance. Thanks

 

[E9Pilot]

Good to see you have your priorities straight!

Haha! Beer and friends can certainly get in the way of the projects.


LOL!!!! I thought they were part of the heater! yes, now I see it.

No worries, it is a fairly rough picture too.

HBChris: Good call! I already put it on the registry. It is definitely a USA version by VIN. It is a late '71 build making it a '72 model year.

Tmason: It does, I think there may have been a victory dance in the shop that night, but luckily nobody saw it or can prove it. :wink:

 

[MyFemurHurts]

Brendan: Sorry for the slow response. Life gets in the way from time-to-time. It is good to hear of another pilot with the same BMW addiction as I have. I have the same ratings and was working on my CFI also. I found another gig in the aviaiton world that kept me flying but not as the primary part of the job. I am in Aviation Insurance. I usually am able to rent a C172 or C182 to go on field trips for he job and visit clients. It is a nice perk.

Awesome. The owner of my company and I are working on leasing an RV12 back to a flight school, and hopefully getting an employee rate of $60/hr wet. If we can nail that, I'll be up in the air more often.

As it sits, most of my disposable income has been funneled into my Coupe. It's $500 here, $200 there, yada yada.

Glad to hear yours is coming along!

 

[CSteve]

Common to have reflectors on the rear and front and just the rear. No so common, I have never seen, front but no rear. But I am sure they are out there. Steve

 

[Stan]

Common to have reflectors on the rear and front and just the rear. No so common, I have never seen, front but no rear. But I am sure they are out there. Steve

When I got The Great White, I had the fronts removed as they seemed redundant. Years later as part of the bare metal respray, I had the rear reflectors removed.

 

[E9Pilot]

Awesome. The owner of my company and I are working on leasing an RV12 back to a flight school, and hopefully getting an employee rate of $60/hr wet. If we can nail that, I'll be up in the air more often.

As it sits, most of my disposable income has been funneled into my Coupe. It's $500 here, $200 there, yada yada.

Glad to hear yours is coming along!

I really like the Vans family of aircraft. Very capable and great kit aircraft. The owners used to know each person that bought an RV from them. I think even up to the first 1,000 or so. Good people. Is your's a kit or a factory build?

 

[E9Pilot]

When I got The Great White, I had the fronts removed as they seemed redundant. Years later as part of the bare metal respray, I had the rear reflectors removed.

I didn't know they even came with front reflectors. Learning something new about these beauties every day. I can definitely see the fronts as redundant though.

 

[CSteve]

There was a thread a while back saying the rear reflectors create a visual balance. I take some consolation in that since I forgot to have mine removed when resprayed.
Steve

 

[MyFemurHurts]

I really like the Vans family of aircraft. Very capable and great kit aircraft. The owners used to know each person that bought an RV from them. I think even up to the first 1,000 or so. Good people. Is your's a kit or a factory build?

Factory built. I did a few trips around the pattern in it and loved it. It's an LSA that outperforms a 172.

We'll see if they can get a few clauses in the lease worked out.