pequeajim
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
Posts: 708
Location: New Holland, PA
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 Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:16 am Post subject: A New Lightning Owner and SNF thoughts. |
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Thanks Buzz for the good suggestions. I had subscribed to epanelbuilder last year when I was building a Murphy Rebel. It worked great and was easy to lay out several concepts before I came up with something that I wanted. Good suggestion. I guess since the check is "in the mail" as of today, I can go ahead an reserve my number. Do the Lightnings have a kit serial number? That may be a part of the number.
I'll see what is available.
Jim!
On 4/24/07, N1BZRich(at)aol.com (N1BZRich(at)aol.com) <N1BZRich(at)aol.com (N1BZRich(at)aol.com)> wrote: [quote] Jim,
Good to hear you persisted in your quest for the Lightning and it paid off. I kind of felt that the newest seat design would work for you. Hope that John Williams finds out the same thing.
You are on the right track to be studying the build manual while waiting for you build start date. It will get you familiar with the way things go together and probably save some time in the long run as you will understand what the Green Landings team is having you do and the order that things need to be done. I understand you will be doing your own panel, but it is certainly not to early to be thinking about your panel layout. There is a web site you can use to help with that: http://www.epanelbuilder.com/
It allows you to pick instruments and avionics and move them around on your panel outline to see what looks and works best for you. It used to be free, but I think there is a minor charge now. And while you are at it, get one of the three view Lightning line drawings, a box or colored pencils (or crayons from your kids) and start working on your paint scheme and colors. That is always a fun rainy day project. It is also not too early to go to the FAA web site and reserve an N number for your kit. It only cost ten dollars a year to reserve and you can request a special number and the site will tell you if that number is available. Also, any and all time that you spend doing the above type of stuff can be logged as part of your build time. Kit Log Pro is a program developed by an EAA'er that helps keep track of all of this and when you are done, just hit the print button on your computer and you have your builders log to show to the FAA as documentation for your Repairman's certificate.
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