WDYDWYRTW? May 2-3, 2026
(what did you do with your RV this weekend?) I did this. 26 days since my last RV hop. No flight directors. No autopilot. No wind. No clouds. It was glorious. Mental gyros recalibrated. v/r,dr
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First flight!
Hey guys! After 5 years of building, I’m here to report that she flies! She flies straight and true. I did have a loose oil fitting and a sheared restrictor in an injector. But all in all everything is great and I love flying this plane! Trust me when I tell you this…….. KEEP BUILDING, KEEP...
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Brantel RV-12IS Build Thread
Got the wings mounted today for hopefully the last time, fitted my 3d printed AirBox spacer and reinstalled the air filter, put 5 gallons of 93 octane no ethanol gas in it and ran the fuel pumps. So far no leaks detected. What kind of sound do you all hear from the pumps running on one vs...
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2026 RV Social
2026 Oshkosh RV Social Monday July 20th 1366 WEST WAUKAU AVENUE Starts When The Airshow Gets Boring (Let's call it 4 o'clock) Ends When The Kegs Run Dry FOR NOW, JUST MARK YOUR CALENDAR MORE LATER!
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A small victory: Anxiety-triggered airsickness in Pax
One of my enduring (thus far) disappointments with my flying has been that when I bought my RV-6 fifteen years ago, one of my ambitions and aspirations was to use it as a platform to tour Australia with my partner, so we could share what this amazing continent has to offer with each other. But...
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Missing CB-710D from IO-360 Baffle Kit
I'm deep into working on my baffle installation. Yesterday I was working on the cylinder 1 and 2 baffle ramp assemblies only to discover I was missing the CB-710D from my kit. At first I thought I had simply misplaced it (that never happens), but eventually I realized that it was missing from my...
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Help me understand my co-pilot stick enable switch
So I have a co-pilot stick enable switch but it isn't working like I expect it to. I ran a wire from the switch (WHT/BLK) to the factory co-pilot stick grounding location (shown below). The problem is the stick is enabled regardless of the switch position. I tried swapping the BLK ground wire...
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