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danny_galaga:
Inspection is happening in a week or so, then if all goes well, test flying.
Before the inspection, I had to have a stainless steel identity plate made. I hunted around for someone to make one. Oh cool, there's a place only a few hundred metres from work. I go there and and am immediately treated like I'm a door to door salesman or summink. I tell them what I need. Oh, you'll need to email us the details. But I'm right here! No mind, I go outside and then email them 🙄

They send me back a quote and a PDF mockup. $89. It looks ---smurfing--- RETARDED. Faaark, how hard could it be? I email them back to say the C's look like G's, can we just go with a simple sans serif? Next sample almost looked worse! I get the picture, I thought to myself. They don't want to do business with me. If it were me I would say so, or st least say there's a minimum order.

So I hunt around online. Find a place, $55. But it's a long way away so I'd miss a weekend. Then I think hey, I deliver mail to a sign writer, maybe they can help? I go see them. They say they've got a guy. She opens an email from them . It's my --missioncontrols-- from before! We agree it would be funny if I ordered through the sign writer. They would know it's me. Sign writer would play dumb. We go ahead. Then I get a quote from the sign writer. $150! Too late now, I don't want to reneg on them since they helped me with other stuff on the plane. But THEN they say it won't be ready until next Monday. I tell them Monday might as well be Friday since I can get it express post from the other guys for half the price. Suddenly it is possible. But can I go pick it up.

Sigh... So I swallow my pride and pick it up. We don't say a word to each other

These are the sorts of fun times I've had over the years with this stupid plane.

I tell people now, if they want to take up project management as a hobby, build a kit plane 😄

danny_galaga:
Oh, and the reason the original quote looked retarded?.turns out there was some sort of translational problem between their PC and my android phone. The original artwork was fine 😄

nitrogen_widget:

--- Quote from: danny_galaga on October 13, 2024, 08:16:20 pm ---Ballooning is something else again. I did it once..very tranquil. It blows mind that balloonists basically steer by going up and down to find the right direction of wind. An understanding of weather far beyond the average pilot I reckon.

Mines still not flying yet, but I did taxi it around the airfield on the weekend..it looks really nice on the ground 😊

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does look good.

pbj:
It’s current year. Stop using retarded as an insult. Don’t look through my comment history - I’ve evolved.

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: pbj on November 11, 2024, 11:38:45 pm ---It’s current year. Stop using retarded as an insult. Don’t look through the my comment history - I’ve evolved.

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Differently abled 🤷‍♂️

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