Building yer own....

[fishtits]

Thanks for the info guys. It seems the IAA are quite the pain in the proverbials...

I'm an architect by trade so am reasonably technically minded - I've also got quite a bit of experience in restoring classic cars & building kits cars and I'm (un)lucky enough to have a best friend who is an aircraft engineer who said he'll give me a dig out with any of the difficult bits. It was also my intention to go for all the fast build options etc so I don't have to deal with fabricating the large structural components.

I wasn't expecting the process to be as complicated as it seems to be in Ireland, although if I can build it under the supervision of the PFA or BMAA as you suggest it may still be a possibility.

I'll go and have a chat with the PFA & find out how difficult the whole process is going to be.... It'd be a damn shame not to be able to build such a nice aeroplane here because of bureaucratic nonsense...

Thanks again for the heads up.

FT