When aviation nickels and dimes you...
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 7:55 am
it does so $1000 at a time!
I'm at the stage of the RV where I have to start buying lots of little "insignificant" items, that all collectively add up to a crapton of money. All the little concessions in the plans that few of us seem inclined to want to make, such as the brake tubing pitot and the garden spigot fuel valve.
The right wing got a Trio servo bracket, which I'm very impressed with. I'm going to go ahead and pull some 4x22ga shielded cable for the servo.
It also has AFS AOA ports that I installed years ago... I'm still completely up in the air about who will end up in my panel, so I went ahead and ran the tubing for those ports.
Installed a dynon heated pitot in the left wing this past weekend in preparation for closing up the wings. All the interior in the fuselage is done up to the carrythrough, and the book has me mounting wings and tail next, so I'm working on getting these wings ready to mount.
That wiring is secured, but I'm not crazy about how it looks, and I'm not crazy about the spade connectors. I think they're going to be a nightmare to deal with through the bellcrank access panel, so I'm going to redo the wiring this weekend. I may even move the controller to the bellcrank bay.
I ordered from Vans their AFP boost pump kit and Andair fuel valve; also a new set of skins, stiffeners, and trailing wedge for my rudder which got damaged pretty good in the move to the airport.
I'm at the stage of the RV where I have to start buying lots of little "insignificant" items, that all collectively add up to a crapton of money. All the little concessions in the plans that few of us seem inclined to want to make, such as the brake tubing pitot and the garden spigot fuel valve.
The right wing got a Trio servo bracket, which I'm very impressed with. I'm going to go ahead and pull some 4x22ga shielded cable for the servo.
It also has AFS AOA ports that I installed years ago... I'm still completely up in the air about who will end up in my panel, so I went ahead and ran the tubing for those ports.
Installed a dynon heated pitot in the left wing this past weekend in preparation for closing up the wings. All the interior in the fuselage is done up to the carrythrough, and the book has me mounting wings and tail next, so I'm working on getting these wings ready to mount.
That wiring is secured, but I'm not crazy about how it looks, and I'm not crazy about the spade connectors. I think they're going to be a nightmare to deal with through the bellcrank access panel, so I'm going to redo the wiring this weekend. I may even move the controller to the bellcrank bay.
I ordered from Vans their AFP boost pump kit and Andair fuel valve; also a new set of skins, stiffeners, and trailing wedge for my rudder which got damaged pretty good in the move to the airport.
enjoy the process it will be boring flying soon 