bulding a kitplane maybe Van's RV9A --- a good idea ?????

In article et, Jerry
Springer writes:


If I had waited to have everything perfect and all the ducks lined up in
a row before starting to build my RV-6 I would have never started it or
even finished it. If you want to build an airplane you well figure it
out, but there is never a right time to start building. The one good
thing about some of the popular kits is the fact that you can buy them a
kit at a time and spread the financial part of it out.

Jerry
First flight on my RV-6 July 14,1989



Sort of like having kids, if you wait until you can afford them it will be too
late and you will be over the hill. Building is a big, long term project so
get started and for the most part, finance as you go.

Bob Reed
www.kisbuild.r-a-reed-assoc.com (KIS Builders Site)
KIS Cruiser in progress...Slow but steady progress....

"Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice,
pull down your pants and Slide on the Ice!"
(M.A.S.H. Sidney Freedman)

osite (RobertR237) wrote in message ...
perfectly valid analogy sent to bit-bucket

Sort of like having kids, if you wait until you can afford
them it will be too late and you will be over the hill.

Oh, hush

Sydney (OTH parent of 3 yo)

In article ,
(Snowbird) writes:


Sort of like having kids, if you wait until you can afford
them it will be too late and you will be over the hill.

Oh, hush

Sydney (OTH parent of 3 yo)



Gee, did I hit a nerve?

Believe, it is the voice of experience and the reason I only have one child,
although I tell everybody that I stopped with one because the first one was
perfect and I didn't want to spoil my record.


Bob Reed
www.kisbuild.r-a-reed-assoc.com (KIS Builders Site)
KIS Cruiser in progress...Slow but steady progress....

"Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice,
pull down your pants and Slide on the Ice!"
(M.A.S.H. Sidney Freedman)

osite (RobertR237) wrote in message ...
In article ,
(Snowbird) writes:

Sort of like having kids, if you wait until you can afford
them it will be too late and you will be over the hill.

Oh, hush
Sydney (OTH parent of 3 yo)

Gee, did I hit a nerve?

No, kinda the contrary. We waited to have a child until we
felt comfortable financially, and I *am* the lucky parent of
a wonderful child. It was *not* too late, that's the point.

Yes, we could have had trouble we might not have had when we
were younger, and yes, it was harder on me physically than it
would have been when I was younger.

OTOH, younger parents who are struggling financially and/or
trying to grow up emotionally and work things out with a spouse,
have different troubles and they're not necessarily pretty either.

Robert, I take your essential point to be something like,
"if it's something you really really want, plane...kid...
whatever...there will never be a Perfect Time so just
consider your priorities carefully and if that's what you
really want, Go For It." And if I've distilled it correctly,
I pretty much agree.

But I really dislike hearing "if you don't do it now, it
will be too late", because IME one way and another it's
usually not true. So if it's honestly NOT a top priority
for one or another reason, I think it's important to say:
DON'T rush into it...plane...kid. Because chances are good
when it's the right time for YOU, and your other ducks are
more or less in a row, it can still happen.

Sydney (born moderate -- can usually get both sides of an
argument mad at me)

Snowbird wrote:
osite (RobertR237) wrote in message ...

In article ,
(Snowbird) writes:


Sort of like having kids, if you wait until you can afford
them it will be too late and you will be over the hill.


Oh, hush
Sydney (OTH parent of 3 yo)


Gee, did I hit a nerve?


No, kinda the contrary. We waited to have a child until we
felt comfortable financially, and I *am* the lucky parent of
a wonderful child. It was *not* too late, that's the point.

Yes, we could have had trouble we might not have had when we
were younger, and yes, it was harder on me physically than it
would have been when I was younger.

OTOH, younger parents who are struggling financially and/or
trying to grow up emotionally and work things out with a spouse,
have different troubles and they're not necessarily pretty either.

Robert, I take your essential point to be something like,
"if it's something you really really want, plane...kid...
whatever...there will never be a Perfect Time so just
consider your priorities carefully and if that's what you
really want, Go For It." And if I've distilled it correctly,
I pretty much agree.

But I really dislike hearing "if you don't do it now, it
will be too late", because IME one way and another it's
usually not true. So if it's honestly NOT a top priority
for one or another reason, I think it's important to say:
DON'T rush into it...plane...kid. Because chances are good
when it's the right time for YOU, and your other ducks are
more or less in a row, it can still happen.

I have NEVER heard a person that has built and flown their own airplane
say "I wish I had waited longer before building my airplane." Everyone
of them say "I wish I had started when I first considered building an
airplane." If you want to build get started now.

Jerry


Sydney (born moderate -- can usually get both sides of an
argument mad at me)

Jerry Springer wrote:


I have NEVER heard a person that has built and flown their own airplane
say "I wish I had waited longer before building my airplane." Everyone
of them say "I wish I had started when I first considered building an
airplane." If you want to build get started now.

Jerry

Well, I have to pick on your methodology here. I imagine that your
sample is representative of those who build and fly planes. But look
at the completion statistics on kits, and ask some of those who did
not complete them if they wish they had waited until circumstances
were better for them.
--
Alex
Make the obvious change in the return address to reply by email.

(Snowbird) wrote in message . com...
Sort of like having kids, if you wait until you can afford
them it will be too late and you will be over the hill.

Oh, hush

Sydney (OTH parent of 3 yo)

Gotcha beat, lady. 8, 5, 3 and 3 months. Prior to my recent BFR, the
last entry in my logbook was five years ago, taking my (then) only
child up for a ride with daddy. Now the others are agitating for a
ride, too. Hence my presence here. No way can I afford $25,000 for
an airplane. It'd be a stretch to have to spend that much on a (more
necessary) ground vehicle!

Kids is a good analogy, I think. Or getting married. (The main
difference is, if things don't work out with the airplane project, you
can put it up on ebay with few regrets and no lasting damage. ;-) )

If you're not sure that you want to do this thing, hold off. Do some
more research before making the committment. But if it's something
that you *know* you want to do, and the only question is *when*, then
*get started*. There never will be a right time, so just get going.

In my case, "getting started" is a matter of defining the mission,
narrowing down choices, and ordering a few sets of plans to pore over
and think about. Since I don't currently have room to lay up a spar
or fuselage, I've got a built-in window of opportunity to think a
while and make a long-term plan. I make slow but steady progress.
(FWIW, here's an inspiring story about the benefits of slow-but-steady
progress, and I don't mean the magic of compund interest:
http://www.donshewey.com/2001_zine/daffodils.html)

Corrie
http://www.itasca.net/~corrie/homebuilt_plane_blog.htm
(My thanks to the folks here who prodded me into action.)