Originally Posted by
jmorrical
I appreciate the help I've gotten from Mitch. The instruction, encouragement and patience he gave me thru the first wing met my expectations. For someone who has never tackled this kind of project having no familiarity with the tools, techniques and technical things like riveting, drilling out rivets, knowing if this or that was acceptable, etc. I needed lots of phone calls to reach a level of confidence. Mitch took them all and I have learned a lot. When I first began talking to my EAA Chapter members about my new kit they asked to see the manual. They asked me what I thought of it. I felt it was great, but then i found as a first time builder I encounters many slow downs because of the manual. For $160,000 investment I would tell my EAA buddies that there are some shortcomings in the wing manual at least. I am loving the build, but sometimes frustrated by the manual.
I do not like to throw stones, but would say CubCrafters needs to refresh and make improvements in wording and correct errors in the manual. All the sections should to be reviewed, reworded or rewritten to improve it where necessary. All the text and figures need to be reviewed. I've spent a lot of time in a zone of confusion about some things. I don't understand why they haven't updated the errors we all find and know about on the DropBox manuals. I was expecting that would be the case and the DropBox manual would be our gold standard. That just doesn't seem to happen.
I'm building the EX and have wondered if the EX2 manual was improved.
Bottom line is that I got thru the wings, but spent lots of time unsure, trying to figure it out or talking to Mitch when a corrected manual would have cut some of that time.
Jim Morrical