Builder classes are usually small, with no more than eight or ten people. This allows the individual focus, attention, and close instruction that will best meet the specific needs of the participants.<\/p>\n
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A typical class may last two or three days. After the initial introductions and donuts (“Why exactly did you decide to do this highly intimidating thing?”), the first short sessions are usually spent describing and explaining the basic tools involved in building a metal airplane. Rivet guns, dimple dies, rivet squeezers, deburring tools, and drills are fondled, explained, and demonstrated.<\/p>\n
The next session usually involves a small, basic project designed to introduce the fundamentals of dealing with aluminum. Parts are measured, drilled, and deburred. When these parts are fully prepared, they can be riveted together. About this time, students begin to realize that the operations they worried about the most (usually riveting) are actually the easiest, while tasks they never considered (all the preparation work) take more time and effort than maybe they\u2019d imagined.<\/p>\n
After completing a few small projects, each emphasizing some specific operation, the final day is spent building the “graduation project.” This portion of the class is typically more involved and brings together all of the new skills that the student has acquired over the prior few days. A typical final-day effort might be a section of a control surface in which skins, stiffeners, ribs, and spars are all prepared, fitted, drilled, and riveted.<\/p>\n
The end of each day is usually spent in a question-and-answer “debrief” period with wide-ranging discussions about everything from specific building topics to aircraft history.<\/p>\n
While formal instruction is certainly not mandatory or necessary to ensure an RV’s successful completion, it can certainly get a new builder off to a faster and much more confident start. The best compliment an instructor can receive as the class departs is hearing a student proclaim, “I can do this!”<\/p>\n
Construction Classes are offered in the United States<\/a> and other countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Provider: EAA SportAir<\/strong> Provider: Grov-Air, Inc.<\/strong> Provider: Synergy Air South Provider: EAA SportAir<\/strong> Provider: Ohio Valley RVators Builder Assistance<\/span><\/strong> Provider: Bend Builder’s Assist and Maintenance<\/strong> Provider: Cascade Aircrafters<\/strong> Provider: Mix Aircraft Solutions LLC<\/span><\/strong> Provider: Synergy Air<\/strong> Provider: Jay Pratt’s RV Central<\/span><\/strong> Provider: EAA SportAir Workshops<\/span><\/strong> <\/p>\n Provider: Sport Aircraft Association of Australia<\/span><\/strong> Provider: Flyer Ind\u00fastria Aeron\u00e1utica<\/strong> Provider: DavideFlyer di Rosa Davide<\/span><\/strong> Provider: Aviecom<\/span><\/strong> Provider: Alfonso Hern\u00e1ndez Garcia<\/strong>United States<\/h3>\n
California<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nType of program: Workshops
\nLocation: Corona
\nPhone number: 800.967.5746<\/p>\nColorado<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
\nType of program: Workshops, Builder Assist
\nLocation: Watkins, CO
\nPhone number: 317.919.6594
\nEmail:\u00a0rv6grover@sbcglobal.net<\/a>
\nWebsite: www.grov-air.com<\/a><\/p>\nGEORGIA<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
\n<\/strong>Type of program: Workshops, Builder Assist
\n<\/strong>Website: http:\/\/synergyair.com\/builder-classes\/<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Location: Newnan, GA
\nPhone number: (678) 854-6498<\/p>\nMaryland<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
\nType of program: Workshops
\nLocation: Frederick
\nPhone number: 800.967.5746<\/p>\nOhio\/ West Virginia\/VIRGINIA<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
\nLocation: Mid Ohio Valley Airport (PKB)
\nContact: Rick Gray
\nEmail: grayonthebay@gmail.com<\/a>
\nPhone number: 740.350.5188<\/p>\nOregon<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
\nType of program: Builder Assist
\nLocation: Bend, OR
\nContact: Andy Buller
\nPhone number: 541-508-8559
\nEmail: andysbuller5@gmail.com
\nWebsite: https:\/\/www.bendbuildersassist.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\nType of program: Builder Assist
\nLocation: Eugene, OR
\nContact: Ben Spurlock
\nPhone number: 503-757-6405
\nEmail: cascadeaircraftersben@gmail.com<\/a>
\nWebsite: https:\/\/www.cascadeaircrafters.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\nType of program: Workshops
\nLocation: Mulino, OR
\nContact: Tim Mix
\nPhone number: 541.399.2731
\nEmail: mixasllc@yahoo.com<\/a>
\nWebsite: http:\/\/www.mixasllc.com\/contact.html<\/a><\/p>\n
\nType of program: Workshops, Builder Assist<\/span>
\nLocation: Eugene, OR
\nPhone number: 541.603.8175
\nClass Dates: posted on web site
\nWebsite: http:\/\/synergyair.com\/builder-classes\/<\/a><\/p>\nTexas<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
\nType of program: Builder Assist
\nLocation: Hicks Airfield
\nPhone number: 817-271-0594
\nEmail: rvcentral46@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\nWisconsin<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
\nType of program: Workshops
\nLocation: Oshkosh, Wisconsin
\nPhone number: 800.967.5746<\/p>\nOther Countries<\/h3>\n
Australia
\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nLocation: Narromine, New South Wales
\nPhone number: (61) 2 6889 7777
\nWebsite: http:\/\/www.saaa.com<\/a><\/p>\nBrAZIL\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nLocation: Sumar\u00e9, Brazil
\nContact: Luiz Claudio Gon\u00e7alves
\nPhone number:+ 55 (19) 3303-3850
\nEmail: claudio.goncalves@flyer.com.br\u00a0<\/a>
\nWebsite:\u00a0http:\/\/www.flyer.com.br\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nItaly<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nLocation: Palazzolo Vercellese (VC) 13040 Italia
\nContact: Davide Rosa
\nPhone number:(39) 366 3388116
\nEmail: davideflyer@yahoo.it <\/a>
\nWebsite: http:\/\/www.davideflyer.it<\/a><\/p>\nSpain<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nLocation: Igualada, Spain
\nContact: Joan Comas Garrigos
\nPhone number: (34) 628214444<\/p>\n
\nLocation: Cambrils, Spain
\nContact: Alfonso Hern\u00e1ndez Garcia
\nPhone number: (34) 645 11 33 57
\nWebsite: http:\/\/usuaris.tinet.cat\/alfonsoh\/<\/a><\/p>\nUnited Kingdom<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n