Brodhead Pietenpol Association

Original Posted By: Galen Hutcheson

Original Posted By: "Stephen!"
Stephen,Welcome...........of all the homebuilts you could be considering and groupsyou could be lurking, you made the best choice. The Pietenpol design lendsitself to the be best homebuilt for ease of building and ease of adaptingwhere needed.Gordon Bowen----- Original Message -----

Original Posted By: "Stephen!"

Original Posted By: "Stephen!"

Original Posted By: "Stephen!"

Original Posted By: "Stephen!"
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Hello!Stephen, welcome to the group !!In a message dated 7/1/2005 10:33:27 PM Central Standard Time, pietenpol(at)imagesdesavions.com writes:Where is the best place to learn about the process of building outside of the actual building process its self? Join the EAA, and a local chapter, stay with this Pietenpol List, and definatelly Go To Brodhead !!Where can I find an easy to understand, comprehensive list (perhaps?) of what I need to do to get this thing off the ground, so to speak. Check the archives, listed at the bottom of every e-mail on this list.I'm sure it cannot be as simple as just gettin' 'er done and jumping in for a flight. For example, are there progressive FAA inspections that need to be done and such?Some years ago, there were progressive inspections required by the FAA...a 'Pre-Cover' inspection comes to mind. The EAA now has Tech Counselors, FlightCounselors, as well as a lot of other programs, that the FAA stores much faithin. You should understand, however, that scratch building an airplane from plans, is a long term project...albiet a Very Rewarding one !! I suggest you buy a set of plans from Donald Pietenpol, and get started on the ribs. Doesn'ttake up any more room than a coffee table.Chuck GantzerNX770CGPietenpol's Forever !!________________________________________________________________________________Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 18:59:30 -1000

Original Posted By: "Stephen!"
Stephen,The best place to learn about building homebuilts is to hang around theairport where other homebuilders are working on there planes and watch. Thebest organization for finding who's building what in your area is the LOCALchapter of the EAA. There's lots and lots of "how to" homebuilder books,many of them very good, but many too generic to be useful. The workshopssold around the country by Sport Air are helpful and a good start. A weekat Oskosh going from workshop tent to tent is a good start but time limited.Spend time in shops and hangers of actual homebuilders, we love to talkwhile we work on our projects. Don't rely on just one guy's methods, watchas many as you can, then read the "how to" books. You'll know when you'reready to put your money where you think your skills are, making a plane toplans, or buying a kit, or adapting a set of plans to your specific needs.Good luck.Re: "We'll keep the light on for you", Tom Bodette still keeps a house uphere, telephone # still in phone book, he comes up in the summers tohang-out in the DownEast Saloon or Dugan's Saloon or Salty Dog Saloon orjust fishin', but now that he's a big time radio star doing commericals andeverything fancy like that, he lives down in Seattle. Kid's are in schoolin Seattle area and I understand he wanted to be nearer to them.Re: FAA and Medical Safus, ain't no big thing. Just a helpful hint toothers before they get swept in the FAA whirlpool.Gordon Bowen----- Original Message -----

Original Posted By: Rick Holland

Original Posted By: "Phillips, Jack"

Original Posted By: Phillips, Jack
is anyone on this site in or around Denver?? I'm in town for a couple of days.Gene ----- Original Message -----

Original Posted By: Javier Cruz

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