ORIGINAL: jet22b
You are so right!! When I maiden a kit build and I get her back on the ground, I am done for that day. As you know, when you work for months or years on a kit build, you know in a blink of a eye it can be gone. Like you said in your first post, if you don't feel that way anymore, it is time to leave the hobby!!!
Eh..I just can't see it that way.
I've put up airplanes that were true labors of love, scratch built over timeframes in the dozens of months, from modified plans...and I've put up "expensive" (for me) giant scale ARFs...and just the other day I put up a < $100 rebuild that represented nearly 6 months of joint labor between me and my son, his first airplane.
Each of those mentioned had an IMMENSE value to me...some in time, some in pasison, some in money...some of all of that in each one really.
And there's no question...it CAN all be gone in a blink, and that DOES suck!
But it seems to me...and maybe I'm just wired differently....that knowing that is a reason NOT to stress too much over it. If I did my best, and I'm confident in my skills, my efforts, my choices of equipment then...it's an airplane. It's meant to fly. The fact that i DO know "it can all be gone in a blink" means I accept that risk, do what i can to mitigate it, and then go on with life.
Like i said before...the money, the time, the effort, the passion...those are all already spent. it's not as though NOT wrecking it can get any of those things BACK for you...and you can't change your mind and "respend" the money on rent, or the time with family, or whatnot...
So...eh...maybe it's time for me to leave the hobby. *heh* Or maybe some of us just don't stress over the same things in the same ways.
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