From: RWolf99@aol.com
Message-ID: <fb3f651.367b4393@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 01:11:31 EST
To: lancair.list@olsusa.com
Subject: What to Fly while Building
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A while back there was a short thread about what to fly while building.  I
realized rather quickly that I wasn't going to finish my Lancair anytime soon,
and that something else was needed.  I've also got a 15 year old son who loves
to fly, and a new wife that says she wants to learn enough about it to be
helpful on cross countries.  (Haven't gotten the guts yet to suggest that
removing her clenched fists from my throat would be an excellent first
step...)

I recently bought a 1972 Cessna 150, full IFR.  It even has DME!  It cost a
little more than a VFR 150, but the King KX155 with glideslope and the DME
will move over to the Lancair some day.  The Cessna will become a VFR airplane
then, with one navcom.  It's the perfect plane for my wife and son to learn
in.  And if droning along at 95 knots isn't incentive to build faster, I don't
know what is!

I looked at it as buying the nav gear for the Lancair, only with wings and an
engine attached!  It has also been a great learning experience.  I had only
rented before, and now I'm learning about owner-type things -- insurance,
annuals, oil changes and spark plug cleaning -- all those things.

It cost less than a new Honda, besides.

- Rob Wolf
RWolf99@aol.com
Cessna driver / LC20 builder