We’ve been keeping our eyes open for a box hangar that would let us put our Bonanza and the RV in the same hangar. One came open at the Reid-Hillview Airport (KRHV) where we keep our Bonanza, so we grabbed it. I flew the RV up yesterday and had to shoot an LPV approach to just above minimums. That was the first low approach I’ve flown in the RV, and the autopilot flew it beautifully. ATC asked me to maintain best forward speed on the approach, so I flew the approach at 170KIAS until about 4 miles out. I still popped out on about a 1.5 mile final at 140KIAS. I kicked off the autopilot, chopped the power to idle and still had to do a full-rudder slip the whole way down final to get down to 70KIAS over the threshold.

I picked up a truck this morning, and with the help of a few buddies, we got all of the rest of the stuff from the old hangar moved over and set up.

The new hangar is 35’x50′, so there’s plenty of room for both planes. Even with both in place, there’s at least 3′ between the planes and enough room to comfortably walk around both of them.

We got my giant shelves set up and filled them with all of the stuff from both hangars. I still need to unpack and organize everything.

We also set up the back corner with a couch and recliner and our old TV and stereo.

My buddy Dan and I laid out and painted some lines so that we can ensure the planes go back into the same spots each time.

I set up my workbenches behind the wings of the RV which should work out well.

Welcome to the new, WordPress powered version of my RV-7 blog! After nearly 2 years without updates, the blog is alive again!

This site has been managed since the beginning with some blogging software called MovableType. The company that owns that made it closed-source several years back and my hosting company stopped supporting it. This meant the pages were visible, but I couldn’t log in and add new entries. After months of not having the time to deal with it, I finally found a company that would migrate all of the blog entries from MovableType to WordPress. After some additional cleanup, this is the result. There are a few things different about the new site:

• Larger thumbnails
• Image thumbnails now link to full-sized versions to make it easier to see details
• Much better appearance on smart phones and tablets
• Better organization and navigating of categories
• Fixed countless grammar and spelling errors
• Fixed all of the upside-down pictures

Please use the contact link at the top of the page to let me know if you find anything amiss with the new site.

UPDATE: Both displays have been sold.

I’m selling my SkyView Touch displays; they are both D1000T (10″) displays. They are in nearly new condition, have no marks on the displays, and everything works perfectly. I’m selling them for $1,800 each or $3,500 for the pair. I’d prefer to deliver them in person for cash anywhere near northern CA, but I’ll ship if the money is sent via wire transfer to me. Please contact me at rv7@jasonbeaver.com if you’re interested.

They have approximately 500 hours on them and have been completely trouble free. They are serial numbers 15013 and 15015 that I’ve had since Dynon offered the upgrade path from the original SkyView to the Touch displays in 2015. I’m only selling them because I bought new HDX displays last year.

They include both the map and VP-X licenses, two of the SV-NET-TEST cables and a FlyDynon sticker.

Here are a few pictures of the units before I took them out of my RV-7.

Here is a closeup of 15013, front:

and back:

And here is 15015, front:

and back:

I tried to take some video of the front of each display in the light to show that there is not a mark on either display. Here’s 15013:

And 15015:

Here are the goodies I’m including:

They’ll even come packed in the original boxes from Dynon!