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1. 04:34 AM - SportAir RV workshop (Paul Parashak)
2. 10:46 PM - SEC: UNCLASSIFIED Re: SportAir RV workshop (Francis, David CMDR)
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| Subject: | SportAir RV workshop |
--> RV7-List message posted by: Paul Parashak <pavel_gaijin@yahoo.com>
I am a future 7A builder at the preview plans stage,
as I like to say. I am going to the Atlanta March RV
workshop, and I would like to ask some questions of
those who have attended these in the past.
What questions do you wish you asked at the time?
What skills do you wish you learned there that weren't
taught?
How many instructors per student were there?
Regards,
Paul Parashak
http://taxes.yahoo.com/
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| Subject: | SportAir RV workshop |
--> RV7-List message posted by: "Francis, David CMDR" <David.Francis@defence.gov.au>
Paul,
I have not attended a Sportair workshop, but did a weekend course with the
local Australian teacher accredited to Vans. We learned the basics, but not
enough to be self-sustaining. In the months following the school I found
that the key to success is to learn judgement about how to deal with
mistakes.
The technical counsellors will leave you alone when they establish
confidence that you can sensibly assess when to accept a defect (because the
damage caused by rectification could present a worse risk than accepting a
minor error) and when to scrap it and start again with new parts.
Examples:
A flange at the intersection of a rib and spar - 3 rivets, one is outside
the edge distance, no room to put a fourth in, accept or reject? If you
reject it you will be drilling out 3 ribs and scrapping the entire spar.
Ten rivets in a line, on a tailplane spar, three, widely spaced, have been
drilled out twice, still bad rivets - can I use oops rivets?
Same three rivets, now they are all together in a row across a highly loaded
junction with a rib - now can I use oops rivets or should I go up to full
sized 1/8 rivets and ruin the appearance?
Hope this helps, David Francis, VH-ZEE, fuselage kit arrives today!!!
What questions do you wish you asked at the time?
What skills do you wish you learned there that weren't
taught?
Regards,
Paul Parashak
http://taxes.yahoo.com/
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