While what you are saying may be true, you are probably just experiencing a temporary period of frustration. What is needed is some support from other local builders, a trip to Oshkosh, or a flight in someone else's RV-12.I don't appear to have what it takes to build an RV-12, so I'm thinking it's coming time to bring this unpleasant disaster to a close.
I don't appear to have what it takes to build an RV-12, so I'm thinking it's coming time to bring this unpleasant disaster to a close.
I have ordered replacement parts (again).
Eric
I'm building a 7 - I call it the Monday morning call of shame. LOL.I want to thank to everyone for their encouragement, I will post a longer reply detailing my progress (or lack there-of) later today.
I have ordered replacement parts (again).
Eric
... and was so frustrated I had to put things down and walk away for a day.
It happens.
I want to thank to everyone for their encouragement, I will post a longer reply detailing my progress (or lack there-of) later today.
I have ordered replacement parts (again).
Eric
I find that an excellent approach to building an RV-12.I viewed the construction process as therapy, something totally different from what I did at my day job. Each individual task was a project unto itself. If I was fabricating a bracket, I tried to make the best bracket I was capable of. I wasn't building a plane, at that moment I was building a bracket. The plane emerged from the smaller projects.
Hey Dan, next time we are at a Oshkosh or Petit Jean lets find a piano and I will show you a few notes to play. In five minutes I will have you playing a song.Devil's advocate here....
There is nothing wrong with throwing in the towel.
We're all given certain talents. I can build anything, but I can't play the piano. Or dance. And there is no reason to do them badly.
I am sure you too have talents, but perhaps building isn't on your list. So buy an RV. We must have at least a thousand readers right here who didn't build their baby, and they love them just as much. Heck, somebody has to buy finished airplanes or the whole system collapses.
Point is, build because you want to build. Do it because it's fun, or satisfying, or challenging, not because you want an airplane. Spend your trips around the sun doing what you do well.
Devil's advocate here....
There is nothing wrong with throwing in the towel...
The point Dan makes is that we have only so much time on this earth, and you should spend that time doing what makes you happy. There is no shame in simply buying a complete airplane and flying the wings off it if that is what you really want. If you want to fly, then buy. If you loved to build and now can?t stand it, change gears and move to something else. No shame as far as I?m concerned.
That was really a thoughtful post. From childhood I always liked building things but didn't learn to fly until I was thirty five and fell into a job that paid good money so I could afford the lessons. I found that I loved to fly but rental planes were so expensive! Eventually I sold a house and had $20,000 left over that was burning a hole in my pocket. That wasn't enough to buy much of an airplane, so building one seemed like a natural way out of my dilemma. I bought the kit and loved building the plane. At first I thought I could have it flying in 3-4 years. Unfortunately, reality stepped in and I realized that wasn't going to happen. But I just kept going. During those years I was torn between working on the plane and flying, but couldn't afford both. So for a long time I just flew barely enough in a C-172 to stay "proficient".Where do you fall on the scale?
For me, considering all the other things in my life pulling me in different directions, I'm about 55% gotta build and 45% gotta fly, so I think I'm in it for the haul, even if it's a long one...
Where do you fall on the scale?
--Teddy RooseveltThe credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
--Teddy Roosevelt
One of my all time favorites.. Quotes like this, when truly understood and honestly considered, define who we are as human beings.The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Teddy Roosevelt
Lots of good advice and interesting perspectives here, but maybe we should just wait for the man to report back. Last seen (post #15), he'd calmed down and ordered new parts, so he's clearly not ready to quit yet.