Ron's RV7 Factory: Pilot Romance HOBBS 1159.0 hrs

Ron's RV7 Aircraft Factory

Welcome to my personal blog. This site was created as an informal description of my build progress in the construction of a Van's RV7 aircraft. A place where family/friends/builders/curiosity seekers can follow along. It is not intended to be a detailed description of every step in the building process as that would be much too time consuming. There are plenty of sites that do a great job in that arena, that is not my intention with this site. My intention is for this to be a philisophical/motivational/inspirational account of the emotional ups and downs of the life changing journey...and it will change your life. I hope this will give you an idea, through my eyes, of what its like to make this transformation. A note to other builders, I am not an expert so do not put your safety at risk by attempting anything you see on this site until you have done your own research, or send me an email so we can discuss it. Any deviations from the plans are not approved, nor endorsed by Van's Aircraft or myself. Thanks for visiting.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Pilot Romance HOBBS 1159.0 hrs

This is a great video I happened to see on VAF, I got a kick out of it and I hope you do too. I emailed Axel asking permission to post it here, he and his wife said "go for it". Thanks Axel!

Its good to see a non-pilot, significant other enjoying themselves so much...as pilots we just don't understand why others don't "get it" like we do? We just want someone to share our passion with, not too much to ask is it? That is what I call "Pilot Romance"...as good as it gets.

Two things struck me about the video...how relaxed she was, obviously confident in her pilot and the airplane, and two...while others were probably focusing on the lovely young lady during landing, I was watching the rudder flick back and forth and the elevators come up on landing. Nice aviating Axel. Ah, the sweet beauty of flying a taildragger....