Robert, Author at My Experimental Amateur Builds

Safety Pilot and Other News

I spent the day today with a good friend Ted Ripp who is a CFII and owns a 172M with a 180HP […]

The image at the top of this post is the original scratch which happened during the inventory process of the empennage kit. […]

I spent most of the day yesterday doing the final drilling, dimpling and machine countersinking my last practice kit which is a […]

It’s a long story, the short version of which is that my wife has prevailed upon me to build a Zenith 750 […]

I am very pleased to report that I have received all the replacement parts I ordered from Vans. Vans replaced all the […]

Yesterday I received a very encouraging email from Vans Aircraft regarding the replacement of my laser cut parts. Please confirm your Van’s […]

Van’s Latest LCP Update email arrived this morning. I guess they were working over the weekend, that’s good to see. The bad […]

Van’s Aircraft LCP status updates appear to have stopped. Here are some more thoughts on my current situation. Fortunately, I am a […]

Vans Aircraft is in chapter 11, in case you didn’t know. They began sending out emails to customers, I have not received […]

Just a quick note to say that I have completed building the Vans Aircraft Light Box (aka VA Light Box) and will […]