I've been slowly creeping up on the actual conversion of the garage into the building space for the -15, mostly because it means that Lada & I will not be able to park inside until the project is moved out to the airport and I'd like to minimize her inconvenience. Having said that, I cleaned off an old, unused desk that's been gathering dust & junk and turned it into a usable desk. I moved a computer that I bought about 5 years ago to be a high end flight simulator, but I simply never got into simulated flight. For one, I dislike the Windows operating systems and could never properly configure all of the myriads of drivers and other files to make everything work. Secondly, I just don't enjoy 'flying' a simulator. I suppose I'm too dependent upon the noise and accelerations to like just flying what I see on the screen. On the other hand, the giant screens will be great for looking at the plans in large, highly magnified detail.
The kit is supposed to arrive the day after tomorrow ('overmorrow' back when that was a word in common use.) I'll spend all Friday actually evicting the cars and moving benches, etc and we'll be ready to start inventory.
On the RV-12 front, I received the expected message on Monday that the plane was ready for pickup. What I wasn't expecting was the invoice was about double what I had guessed -- over $8800. For "nothing major", that's certainly a lot of work & parts. Oddly enough, I'm glad that it is what it is. This indirectly validates that there were items I wasn't attending to and now I feel good about flying her for another 10 years.
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