February 2010 status: 

  Fill & finish are well under way!  The entire top, canopy, strakes, wings and winglets are done. Presently the tub is upside down and the port wing is on to contour sand the two parts together, then fill & finish the wing bottoms.  All layups are done now.  Wheel pants installed also.

Glass on a budget! I have been filling the panel out with equipment. I should call this the Ebay special. For a year now I have been watching Ebay and VAF and have now bought everything except the auto pilot. I did break down and buy the PMA 5000 EX audio panel new from Stark avionics. He has the best prices I have found and every audio panel I found went for nearly the cost of this new one from PSE. Everything else in the panel is new/un-installed but second hand. I have made some very good buys if I say so myself. Equipment includes a pair of GRT HS-1 EFIS displays with engine monitor, a GNS 430W, GTX 327 xpndr, PMA 5000 audio panel, X-comm #2 radio, Tru Trac ADI and DigiflightII VSGV. The 430w acquisition is a story unto itself.  I'm open to suggestion on the panel layout to the right, but this is the best solution I can come up with. One other option is a EFIS in front of each seat. I have been told others who have tried this  regretted it.