Bill's Aviation Log
Hobbs meter:116 hours (Photo of me at the Massey Airport Fly-in taken by Bill Dougherty)
- Flying Log - (2003 to Present Day)
- Builders Log - Five years, 3000+ hours
Sorry for the dearth of updates the last month. The weather has been mostly crummy, we were snow locked for a week, of course the holidays and finally a mini January vacation. But I do have a few updates. I've been working my wheel pants at home and doing a little formation flying practice on Saturdays. You may notice I have modified the web page format a little.
- January 23, 2010 - Form Practice with Mike R.
- January 17, 2010 - Wheel Pants maintenance
- January 16, 2010 - Form Practice and first immediate family member flies in the RV.
- January 8-10, 2010 - Vacation in Marathon, FL
- December 19, 2009 - Big Snowfall
This web page logs the building of my Vans RV-7 kitplane as well as my flying adventures. I started my RV-7 slow-build kit in early 2004. Just a little over five years later I flew it for the first time. My RV-7 has side-by-side seating and a tip-up canopy. It's powered bya Mattituck TMX-360, straight carburator, with one magneto and one Lightspeed electronic ignition. It turns a constant speed Hartzell blended airfoil propeller. The RV is night-VFR capable. The panel is anchored by a Dynon FD-180 which has both flight and engine instruments. I also have an SL-60 GPS/Comm and Garmin GTX-327 transponder. I have a Garmin GPSMap 496 mounted in an Airgizmo panel dock. Finally, I have a TruTrak Pictorial Pilot Wing leveler autopilot. The plane is fast, nimble and aerobatic. An aerial sports car. It is really quite amazing that it is possible for a single individual to be able to build such a fantastic flying machine.