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  • How did you organize your build plan?

    Hi all!
    My dream of building a bearhawk is drawing ever closer, I will officially start in 3 years when I move to Alaska. As I continue to dream I have amassed many links to different build logs, forum posts and other electronic resources mostly focusing on small aspects of the build that I want to do a little different or custom like carbon fiber seaplane doors (there are some great examples on this forum).

    I would love to see some examples for how you all organized your thoughts as well as your build plan so that you could build the plane in the most efficient way and not get lost in thought/analysis paralysis while you're building. I'm hoping to put in alot of that time up front while I wait to build.

    Thank you for you time!

    p.s. I am also considering doing the build assist with Virgil, I will need to take that into consideration with any customizations as I would not want to slow down that process or frustrate him and his staff on tasks that do not meet the goal of making an airworthy plane as quickly as possible. So I'll either need to figure out how to do them quickly and efficiently, as compared to the standard process or do them on my own time when back in Alaska after first flight.

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    Westward Flyer, I am approaching year two of my Companion build and hope to be in the air by year’s end. I am not a builder and have a full time job with many other responsibilities. For the first 4-6 months, I just stared at parts and researched this forum trying to figure out the process. Virgil now has a manual for the wings and is developing manuals for the remaining components. That will be a game changer. Best advice is to measure twice and cut once, and to complete a task each day. Good luck and enjoy the process.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by BrokenStraw View Post
      Westward Flyer, I am approaching year two of my Companion build and hope to be in the air by year’s end. I am not a builder and have a full time job with many other responsibilities. For the first 4-6 months, I just stared at parts and researched this forum trying to figure out the process. Virgil now has a manual for the wings and is developing manuals for the remaining components. That will be a game changer. Best advice is to measure twice and cut once, and to complete a task each day. Good luck and enjoy the process.
      Thank you for the advice BrokenStraw, I can definitely see how you could get stuck like that. Very glad to hear about the improved manuals coming out, I'll definitlely buy those and study them till I know them by heart.

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      • #4
        I use Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/). It not a single purpose solution, but works well to organize all kinds of complex projects. It's fairly easy to use out of the box but can also be souped up with additional modules (which are mostly gratis). The files are mostly in markdown which is very compatible with LLMs. So you can do crazy stuff on top. I'll stop here because its a very deep hole.
        Bearhawk "XHawk" Patrol, O-360, Trailblazer 80", tubeless 26" Goodyears, Stewart Systems. See XHawk Build Log.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by noema View Post
          I use Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/). It not a single purpose solution, but works well to organize all kinds of complex projects. It's fairly easy to use out of the box but can also be souped up with additional modules (which are mostly gratis). The files are mostly in markdown which is very compatible with LLMs. So you can do crazy stuff on top. I'll stop here because its a very deep hole.
          I actually just re-discovered your build log last night and was very intrigued by your new format, I had started trying to make one of my own in Notion but had heard some good things about obsidian. I'm a complete novice to both so I'll probably start over in obsidian. Thank you so much for getting back to me and for all the hard work you'vd done compiling helpful information as you build. I'll be building a model 5 but hope to create a similar log.

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