Chicken Soup for the Homebuilder’s Soul
Summary
There’s no question that peer support in homebuilding is vital in many respects: camraderie, motivation and technical advice just to name a few. It can be even more beneficial when builders of similar types can network, and in the modern age, type club newsletters have been replaced with online forums and social networking for instant gratification — sometimes good, sometimes not so much. Sometimes builders of similar type aircraft find themselves geographically concentrated, and when that happens, the build process can be even more rewarding. As Bill writes in an article for EAA’s web site, the two share a hangar where they work on their Sonex projects side-by-side and get together regularly with other area Sonex builders. “I don’t know which aspect of this is better — all building similar experimental aircraft, or the camaraderie that has developed.