N77NX in new hands

[Kalibr]

Greetings from the new proud owner of the beautiful N77NX!

Thank you Brent!

Yuri

and a couple of pictures from the road

[jjbardell]

Congrats on your new bird. It looks incredible and great next to that shiny B model in the background.

[Concorde]

Congratulations. Beautiful.

[SonexN76ET]

Good looking Onex!

Did you go to the Sonex transition flight training in Oshkosh?

If not, I highly recommend it!

Thanks,

Jake

[Kalibr]

Thank you! :D

Did transition training in an RV-6, TW endorsement in a Citabria. I think it's a bit late for a Sonex transition training as I already flew the tweety bird all over FL and then up north to Cape Cod. The only thing that surprised me about Onex was how sensitive the elevator was -- hence my first takeoff looked a bit funny. Everything else was uneventful. But I wholeheartedly support the idea of getting transition training before getting into a Sonex/Onex. Although I find Onex overall to be more benign than either RV-6 or Citabria.

[Kalibr]

BTW, we met the Mustang in Boca Raton and the second picture is from a stopover at First Flight -- you can see the Wright Brothers monument in the background.

[Kalibr]

this one is from NJ. The tweety bird was surprised to see that white stuff on the ground for the first time in her life :)

[Stogie6]

Fantastic! I cannot wait to get into the air with mine. I might get the first flight done early summer.

[Bryan Cotton]

Very cool! Welcome to the tribe!

[Kalibr]

I've been thinking about the issue of transition training. I didn't want to sound dismissive and, for the avoidance of doubt, I wasn't. In addition to my recent (within weeks) experience flying RV-6, which certainly helped a lot, 50%+ of my previous flying experience was in LSAs (mostly Tecnam 2002 and Flight Design CTLS). Therefore, I think I was more accustomed to very light control feel compared to someone who is more used to flying regular GA airplanes. Maybe that was another reason I didn't find Onex exceptionally challenging. Although, it is worth mentioning that the elevator is certainly by far the most responsive than I've ever experienced. I also very recently went through glider training in a Blanik, so I was very fresh off a bunch of dual instructions in quite responsive airplanes.
What I am trying to say is that, please don't underestimate the importance of transition training before you take off in a Sonex/Onex for the first time.