The new plans are organized MUCH better than the old ones. Each major section of the plane such as the Fuselage is a separate Section of the plans. Within that Section, are separate chapters concerning the construction of a major part of the plane. Most of the chapters deal with the construction of a single sub-assembly such as the nose gear box or the floorboard.

There is an index which makes it much much easier to find things, and there are printed blocks on the edges of the pages to help find chapters easier. There are a lot more and better pictures and drawings.

Sometime ago, I realized that no matter what, there will always be improvements evolve over time that will need to be included in the plans to make it easier for future builders. Most of these at this point will be small. A simple change in a dimension or a change in the way a part is installed which only involves a change in composite technique. The way the old plans were set up, one small change could mean that everything from that point forward would have to be reprinted. The new organization of the plans allows for such changes to involve no more than one chapter or less making it more expedient to put out correction pages.

Writing these plans is actually more time consuming than actually building the plane itself! I’m not kidding. When I finish a chapter and it has taken me X amount of time, I can always compare how much time it would have taken to actually build the part that chapter covers and know that it would only take ½ or even ¼ as much time to actually build the part.

Following that, I send the result out to some builders that graciously proof read for me. After correcting for their observations, the chapter is finally put to bed and I go on to the next. You receive the end result which hopefully you see as something that should have been easy to write and is relatively easy to understand and work by.

If you don’t have the new chapters of the new plans yet, you will be getting them soon. So far the forward fuselage, the empenage and the wings and landing gear are fully covered. I am about to get into the final assembly of the plane, the canopy, the engine and all that stuff.

KEEPING EVERYTHING IN PERSPECTIVE
Builders of kit aircraft vary a great deal in their drive to get their planes built. Some buy the kit and never open the boxes! On the other end of the spectrum are those driven people that want to get their plane