ORIGINAL: planebuilder66
Ya know, maybe I should build my PCK skybolt, I bought it at the wram show, now I'm curious about the fit and quality of the kit and weather or not it's going to be usable. All I remember is they were very rude at the show and wouldn't offer me a deal on 2 or 3 large kits I wanted, I was looking at 3 hostetler kits and all I really recall is the lady giving me a price off the laptop she had, and when I went to pay, they pulled a higher price off a sheet of paper. I questioned the price increase and they told me it was the price on the sheet, a little pissed but I wanted the kit so I bought it. But if they gave me 5-10% off each kit, they would have wound up with 1200-1300 dollars, instead of $425. I guess they don't want the business that bad.
Think they are rude at the show.................... wait till you need to maybe order some damaged parts from the kit if you have any. Then you will see PKC's really poor service after the sale. The kits are O.K. at best but sadly their service is very very poor in my opion.
I'm waiting for my Cessna 195 kit from Cornel Michaels to arrive next week. I then can tell you how good or bad this kit cutter is. I think at this time that his kits are going to be much better than PKC as he hand cuts every kit he puts out. PKC send his stuff to another person to cut the parts on a lazer cutter and then ships them to the customer. Have heard that a guy ordered a kit from PKC and the ribs were about a 1/16 off from the plans. When he called Larry at PKC to get them cut right he was told it may be six months before they cut another batch of the kits he bought. Now that would piss me off real bad...............REAL BAD!!
Hope you have a much better experiance than I have had I really do.