To the groups credit let me clearify why I was getting in touch with EAA, and yes up until last year I had been a member since I was 12 years old, saw the first release of the original Vans RV4, some 28 years ago!
I think that I am showing that I am serious as a builder/owner when our aircraft has had an initial inspection performed on it, and is waiting for final inspection to be signed off to fly! I contacted the EAA Chapters here, in Orlando, and in Daytona to get the assistance of a Tech Counselor at the recommendation of my FSDO Inspector to make sure the aircraft was truly ready to re-inspect. Orlando gave no response at all, after 2 attempts at calls and e-mails. Daytona responded several days after, providing a list a supposed Tech Counselors, and after calling and personally talking to one who re-assured me that he would call back, and arrange for a couple of guys to come over, I have not heard a word. Called one that my President here in Sanford recommended also in Daytona (there are none in Sanford), and he said that he must decline because he ahd a bad experience going behind another Tech Counselor and going over a plane, and that Sanford was too far to drive from Daytona (40 minutes I think). Bottom line is my friend Harry Teal has a Kitfox derivative aircraft and got all the assistance in the world from EAA people. This thing comes like an RV, all pre-punched and ready to assemble like an erector set. The hardest part is the Stits covering. Since this is a plans built plane, everyone suddenly seems to develop amnesia and not call back after making committments, or saying they don't have the time, or don't inspect that kind of plane. This totally saddens me about the state of experimental aircraft and plans built projects. And please don't preach to me that kit built are safer because I lost a friend and fellow Aviation Safety Counselor John Malecki to an RV6 just last year. The KRNet has been ten times what the EAA has been, and I have been a member for some 28 years! Any how thanks alot to the netters and lets keep it going. To the Gathering, and beyond.... Colin & Bev Rainey KR2(td) N96TA Sanford, FL crain...@cfl.rr.com http://kr-builder.org/Colin/index.html
