Inspection passed! [Archive]

Dave Hyde

November 2nd 03, 09:07 PM

After 1800 hours and 12 years RV-4 N416RV was inspected
today, and I have the airworthiness certificate in hand.
It was much less painful than I expected :-) The DAR
spent about an hour and a half looking over the airplane
and asking questions, and about a half an hour filling
out paperwork. He had some good ideas and some
pointers - and caught a few things that needed to be
adjusted prior to flight (and now have been). He said
that homebuilts, in his experience, tended to fall in
two categories - really nice or really scary. I guess
mine wasn't too scary <g>

All in all it was a pleasant experience. As he said
as he handed me the AC, "Now you're ready to fly...
or at least LEGAL to fly."

Now all the minor milestones are out of the way.
The big one, the only one that really matters, is
yet to come. Taking what's left of the weekend off.
Medium speed taxi tests late this week.

Dave 'barely legal' Hyde

Barnyard BOb --

November 2nd 03, 09:39 PM

>All in all it was a pleasant experience. As he said
>as he handed me the AC, "Now you're ready to fly...
>or at least LEGAL to fly."
>
>Now all the minor milestones are out of the way.
>The big one, the only one that really matters, is
>yet to come. Taking what's left of the weekend off.
>Medium speed taxi tests late this week.
>
>Dave 'barely legal' Hyde

++++++++++++++++++++

Congrats, Dave and.....
Sleep well between now and that first flight. <g>

Barnyard BOb -- motivated Vans RV driver

Jerry Wass

November 3rd 03, 12:09 AM

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Barnyard BOb -- wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>>All in all it was a pleasant experience.  As
he said
 >as he handed me the AC, "Now you're ready to fly...
 >or at least LEGAL to fly."
 >
 >Now all the minor milestones are out of the way.
 >The big one, the only one that really matters, is
 >yet to come.  Taking what's left of the weekend off.
 >Medium speed taxi tests late this week.
 >
 >Dave 'barely legal' Hyde

 ++++++++++++++++++++
Congrats, Dave and.....
 Sleep well between now and that first flight. <g>
Barnyard BOb -- motivated Vans RV driver</blockquote>

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Jim Vadek

November 3rd 03, 12:57 AM

Congratulations. You stuck with it 12 years and got a DAR signoff. I'm
tipping my hat to you right now.

"Dave Hyde" > wrote in message
...
> After 1800 hours and 12 years RV-4 N416RV was inspected
> today, and I have the airworthiness certificate in hand.
> It was much less painful than I expected :-) The DAR
> spent about an hour and a half looking over the airplane
> and asking questions, and about a half an hour filling
> out paperwork. He had some good ideas and some
> pointers - and caught a few things that needed to be
> adjusted prior to flight (and now have been). He said
> that homebuilts, in his experience, tended to fall in
> two categories - really nice or really scary. I guess
> mine wasn't too scary <g>
>
> All in all it was a pleasant experience. As he said
> as he handed me the AC, "Now you're ready to fly...
> or at least LEGAL to fly."
>
> Now all the minor milestones are out of the way.
> The big one, the only one that really matters, is
> yet to come. Taking what's left of the weekend off.
> Medium speed taxi tests late this week.
>
> Dave 'barely legal' Hyde
>

wmbjk

November 3rd 03, 01:42 AM

"Dave Hyde" > wrote in message
...

> After 1800 hours and 12 years RV-4 N416RV was inspected
> today, and I have the airworthiness certificate in hand.

Congratulations! Looking forward to your reports, especially the one
about the first flight.

Wayne

Snowbird

November 3rd 03, 03:18 AM

Dave Hyde > wrote in message >...
> After 1800 hours and 12 years RV-4 N416RV was inspected
> today, and I have the airworthiness certificate in hand.

Congratulations!

So why weren't you out taxiing around this afternoon?
About 5 pm we could even have served you Champagne

Sydney (took my turn)

Del Rawlins

November 3rd 03, 04:17 AM

On 02 Nov 2003 12:07 PM, Dave Hyde posted the following:

> Now all the minor milestones are out of the way.
> The big one, the only one that really matters, is
> yet to come. Taking what's left of the weekend off.
> Medium speed taxi tests late this week.

I offer yet another well-deserved "congratulations!"

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David O

November 3rd 03, 07:09 AM

Dave Hyde > wrote:

>After 1800 hours and 12 years RV-4 N416RV was inspected
>today, and I have the airworthiness certificate in hand.
>It was much less painful than I expected :-)

Congrats, Dave.

David O -- http://www.AirplaneZone.com

Eric Miller

November 3rd 03, 12:34 PM

"Dave Hyde" > wrote
in message ...
> After 1800 hours and 12 years RV-4 N416RV was inspected
> today, and I have the airworthiness certificate in hand.

A huge congratulations, Dave!

Let us know how the flight testing goes!

Eric

Larry Smith

November 3rd 03, 12:43 PM

"Dave Hyde" > wrote in message
...
> After 1800 hours and 12 years RV-4 N416RV was inspected
> today, and I have the airworthiness certificate in hand.
> It was much less painful than I expected :-) The DAR
> spent about an hour and a half looking over the airplane
> and asking questions, and about a half an hour filling
> out paperwork. He had some good ideas and some
> pointers - and caught a few things that needed to be
> adjusted prior to flight (and now have been). He said
> that homebuilts, in his experience, tended to fall in
> two categories - really nice or really scary. I guess
> mine wasn't too scary <g>
>
> All in all it was a pleasant experience. As he said
> as he handed me the AC, "Now you're ready to fly...
> or at least LEGAL to fly."
>
> Now all the minor milestones are out of the way.
> The big one, the only one that really matters, is
> yet to come. Taking what's left of the weekend off.
> Medium speed taxi tests late this week.
>
> Dave 'barely legal' Hyde
>

Wonderful airplane. Good solid investment too. We have one here and I
drool every time it goes by. This one doesn't have rudder pedals in the
rear seat.

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S !

James M. Knox

November 3rd 03, 02:37 PM

Dave Hyde > wrote in :

> After 1800 hours and 12 years RV-4 N416RV was inspected
> today, and I have the airworthiness certificate in hand.

Congratulations. Most things worth accomplishing take a lot of effort, and
this was certainly one of those. You will now have a sense of
accomplishment that only a few people in the world can claim.

> He said that homebuilts, in his experience, tended to fall in
> two categories - really nice or really scary.

I'll bet some of those DAR's could write a book that the rest of us would
almost die laughing upon reading. The quality of most homebuilts seems to
be excellent, far better than factory. But for those few that don't... <G>

-----------------------------------------------
James M. Knox
TriSoft ph 512-385-0316
1109-A Shady Lane fax 512-366-4331
Austin, Tx 78721
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You know who

November 3rd 03, 02:54 PM

"Larry Smith" wrote:

>Wonderful airplane. Good solid investment too. We have one here and I
>drool every time it goes by. This one doesn't have rudder pedals in the
>rear seat.
>
>C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S !
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Just one?

Most every airport around here has a couple.
The small private field that I hangar at has
FIVE and more under construction.
TWO are RV-3's.
One is mine, now with more than 720 hours TT.
Do I dare say 'trouble free' Lycoming hours' ?
Sure....

WITHOUT resorting to the tactics & slippery criteria of the
many auto conversion fruitcakes and wannabees - that have
yet to fly behind a conversion for even one stinking minute.

Barnyard BOb - RV owners have no need to drool

Bruce A. Frank

November 3rd 03, 07:20 PM

Absolutely grand! Congratulations!!!!

Dave Hyde wrote:
>
> After 1800 hours and 12 years RV-4 N416RV was inspected
> today, and I have the airworthiness certificate in hand.
> It was much less painful than I expected :-) The DAR
> spent about an hour and a half looking over the airplane
> and asking questions, and about a half an hour filling
> out paperwork. He had some good ideas and some
> pointers - and caught a few things that needed to be
> adjusted prior to flight (and now have been). He said
> that homebuilts, in his experience, tended to fall in
> two categories - really nice or really scary. I guess
> mine wasn't too scary <g>
>
> All in all it was a pleasant experience. As he said
> as he handed me the AC, "Now you're ready to fly...
> or at least LEGAL to fly."
>
> Now all the minor milestones are out of the way.
> The big one, the only one that really matters, is
> yet to come. Taking what's left of the weekend off.
> Medium speed taxi tests late this week.
>
> Dave 'barely legal' Hyde
>

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