Yup - been off the grid again.......

Lets just say that I am just about ready to write off this entire year as far as airplne building progress goes. House issues have just about done me in - literally. Then there was the two months of car repairs and trailer repairs getting ready for OSHKOSH. I just got back from the big show and all I can say is that this trip is the one sure-fire thing that keeps my head in the airplane building game.

It looks like I will be right on track to start building again right about the time that winter sets in - typical.

I have a ton of video and pics and stuff to report on from Airventure, but will do that later on. Right now I am waist deep in renewing my CFI certificates by taking the King online CFI refresher course. That has to be finished by next month and so far I am well within that deadline.

I also purchased Jeppesen's new Mobile Flight Deck VFR app while at the show and I am now entering the wonderful (crazy??) world of actually flying while using Ipad cockpit operations/electronic charts for the very first time. Just today I learned the expensive IPAD that I purchased does not have built in GPS capability because I only purchased the  Wireless version without the 3G/4G data plan. I already pay for one set of data plans for everyone's phones in the family and I am not about to add another outrageous monthly fee for 4G service for the Ipad. I have also since learned that I can purchase a direct plugin GPS module for the IPAD that should do the trick. Cost is only 70-100 bucks so that should not be too bad.

Anyway, for any of you lurkers out there wondering if I vanished off the face of the planet, I am still here, trying desparately to get back to building an airplane, and literally about ready to take about 5 sticks of dynamite to my house (except for the garage where the airplane factory resides, of course.)

Till next time.