Glenn Patterson

Hi Glenn. I agree with your well thought out analysis of scratch building versus our kit. FYI- over the years I have looked MANY times at how much scratch builders pay themselves to make parts that we sell. It is always in the $3 to $6 per hour. Your $6 an hour is the upper end of the pay scale when it comes to scratch building. Only one exception to that. One time Bob Barrows and I calculated how long it takes Bob to make a set of wing ribs versus what we sell them for. Just the ribs. Bob does it for $9 an hour. I thought you would find my research interesting and basically a conformation. Your "consumables" numbers are something most of us do not think about. Thanks, and good luck getting finished and flying. Mark