So, lets catch up.

Firstly the Jodel D150 is a French designed wood and fabric (http://www.jodel.com for more information), two seater light aircraft. I am building it under supervision of the Popular Flying association (http://www.pfa.org.uk). This is a membership organisation on a par with the EAA in America.

The D150 should take 2,500 - 3,500 hours to build and I'm doing it from home and I reckon it will take me about 6 -7 years of spare time activity.

Steps completed so far; (4 hours )

1. Decided on the Jodel - not as easy as you might think, it took almost a year to settle on the aircraft I wanted to build.

2. Move house - yeah my old place did not have enough room so we moved to a house with space to build the 'hangar'

3. Build a 'hangar'/workshop - this has not yet happened but it is scheduled for May 2006 or possibly June. In the meantime I will be starting in the garage.

4. Get the tools together - Have been collecting a whole bunch of tools over the last 18 months and spent about £500-600.

5. Build a large work table. The main one needs to be 24 foot by 4ft!! but I can start smaller so I have built a 8 foot by 4 ft. This will allow me to start the smaller bits of woodwork.

6. Get some metal - the first task is to build a whole bunch of metal parts since this is a plans built model I have to source and manufacture everything. The next post will detail the start of that process.