MrDan27611
I'm New Here
So the boy and I head to Sun N Fun last week and look at all the shiny toys. We are trying to find a project to build. It's our first build after years of flying certified aircraft.
Mom says go, have fun, buy something. Checkbook says go, money is already sitting ready to spend. It's a shopping trip of the best kind.
Of course we go to the Van's display, multiple times. The RV-10 looks really good for what we have in mind and everything is great. All my questions are getting good answers and the room in the 10 is just astonishing. I cannot fit in TBM 900s or any current Piper, but I can wear a hat in the 10!
Then I find out I'm talking to the new President of Van's aircraft, Mitch. How cool is that. The boss man is on the line selling airplanes.
So I ask Mitch how I go about getting a ride in an RV 10 so I can check off that final due diligence and get a kit ordered. Turns out that now that he is President, he's moving to the left coast and there isn't a real option right now for someone on the East coast for demo rides. Hmm. If the boss man doesn't know how a demo is going to go, what is a customer to do? I'm not complaining, I understand things are in flux with his new position, but I'm not buying a multi-year project till I see the spiny thing in the front spinning and get some air under the wings. Anybody in NC (near Raleigh, preferably) have an RV-10 they want to take for a hamburger? I really don't want to wait till they have another rep out here. I'd love to take the ride to Van's instead but the time to justify that trip is difficult just having come back from a week in Florida.
Thoughts?
Btw, first post here. Probably many more to come as time passes and rivets get bucked.
Mom says go, have fun, buy something. Checkbook says go, money is already sitting ready to spend. It's a shopping trip of the best kind.
Of course we go to the Van's display, multiple times. The RV-10 looks really good for what we have in mind and everything is great. All my questions are getting good answers and the room in the 10 is just astonishing. I cannot fit in TBM 900s or any current Piper, but I can wear a hat in the 10!
Then I find out I'm talking to the new President of Van's aircraft, Mitch. How cool is that. The boss man is on the line selling airplanes.
So I ask Mitch how I go about getting a ride in an RV 10 so I can check off that final due diligence and get a kit ordered. Turns out that now that he is President, he's moving to the left coast and there isn't a real option right now for someone on the East coast for demo rides. Hmm. If the boss man doesn't know how a demo is going to go, what is a customer to do? I'm not complaining, I understand things are in flux with his new position, but I'm not buying a multi-year project till I see the spiny thing in the front spinning and get some air under the wings. Anybody in NC (near Raleigh, preferably) have an RV-10 they want to take for a hamburger? I really don't want to wait till they have another rep out here. I'd love to take the ride to Van's instead but the time to justify that trip is difficult just having come back from a week in Florida.
Thoughts?
Btw, first post here. Probably many more to come as time passes and rivets get bucked.