In 2005, I sold a Citabria I had owned for a few years in order to fund my RV-7 project. At the time I thought the RV would take me about five years to complete, and I simply accepted the fact that my flying was going to take a lower priority while I was busy building. Instead of the 5-10 hours a month I had been flying, I thought it would drop to about 1-3 hours, which seemed reasonable to me at the time.
Now, almost 3 years later, I have come to realize that my assumptions were incorrect. My flying has diminished to basically nothing, as in zero, nada, zilch, and during the past 3 years I have only flown about 5 hours total, most of which hat has been as a lowly passenger. I would be OK with this if the RV project was moving towards completion at a good rate, but it isn’t coming along as quickly as I had hoped. A new house, new addition to the family, my job, and just life in general have all conspired to prevented me from making the progress I thought I would. Before you jump to conclusions let’s just get one thing straight, I am not complaining, I am simply offering an explanation. Truth be told, my initial estimations of the time and money I could devote to construction may have been a bit too generous, but then again they were accurate at the time.
