---------------------------------------------------------- RV7-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Mon 11/02/09: 2 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 05:00 PM - Re: Time to Build RV-7s in Fort Worth, TX Area (Larry Helming) 2. 08:15 PM - Re: Time to Build RV-7s in Fort Worth, TX Area (Bob Collins) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 05:00:07 PM PST US Subject: Re: RV7-List: Time to Build RV-7s in Fort Worth, TX Area From: Larry Helming There are builders all across the usa that will tell you it takes something between 750 hours and 4,000 hours. The difference is experience and the vision for perfection. The average is probably 2,000 hours. At 4 hours per day, avoiding family vacations, and other distractions, about 2 years total duration. Again, Depends on your experience and the number of others who can be of support when questions come up. Stick to the plans and do not deviate and you will save lots of time. If you have no experience, try to stop in on someone in the building process or buy the contruction tapes on ebay and then sell them after you are educated. Join EAA and watch all the metal working construction you can steal time for. Good luck, Indiana Larry -- RV7 O360 450 Hours On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Peter Capani wrote: > I am deciding on which aircraft I want to build. The mission profile is > well defined as long-haul cross country for my wife and me in a > comparatively fast plane. The RV-7 / 7A fits the profile. Are there > builders local to the Fort Worth area (Granbury, Hicks, etc., also) that can > tell me the number of hours or years it took to build their planes? Thanks. > > > * > > * > > -- In God I Trust. ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 08:15:48 PM PST US From: "Bob Collins" Subject: RE: RV7-List: Time to Build RV-7s in Fort Worth, TX Area In many ways it depends on how you want to pay for it. I'm a pay-as-you go sort and I've been building since 2001 and have passed about 2100 hours. It's just not in my nature to carry a lot of debt. So consequently, i also don't have dual Cheltons (or AFS) and a lot of the bells and whistles of others. i'm also not the world's most confident builder so i tend to think a bout things. When I first started, I thought a reasonable timetable was a year for each subkit. i was wrong. Of course it also depends on your values. Do you have kids? is your marriage solid. Time spent on building a plane is time taken from a family and there's no way around it. I marvel at Larry's idea of 4 hours a day for two years. You know what we call that up in my neck of the woods? retirement. (g) _____ From: owner-rv7-list-server@matronics.com [mailto:owner-rv7-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Larry Helming Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 6:56 PM Subject: Re: RV7-List: Time to Build RV-7s in Fort Worth, TX Area There are builders all across the usa that will tell you it takes something between 750 hours and 4,000 hours. The difference is experience and the vision for perfection. The average is probably 2,000 hours. At 4 hours per day, avoiding family vacations, and other distractions, about 2 years total duration. Again, Depends on your experience and the number of others who can be of support when questions come up. Stick to the plans and do not deviate and you will save lots of time. If you have no experience, try to stop in on someone in the building process or buy the contruction tapes on ebay and then sell them after you are educated. Join EAA and watch all the metal working construction you can steal time for. Good luck, Indiana Larry -- RV7 O360 450 Hours On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Peter Capani wrote: I am deciding on which aircraft I want to build. The mission profile is well defined as long-haul cross country for my wife and me in a comparatively fast plane. The RV-7 / 7A fits the profile. Are there builders local to the Fort Worth area (Granbury, Hicks, etc., also) that can tell me the number of hours or years it took to build their planes? Thanks. 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