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Lynx Vanasse - Mar 10,2005
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Hey everybody. I am still working to get financing together to buy my Searey kit, hopefully I will have it by the end of summer. I have a couple questions in preparation. After I saw the Searey for sale that weighed in at 950 lbs empty, I'm a little concerned about weight. Does anyone know how much weight is saved by going with ALL carbon/composite fueselage (turtledeck, hull & nosedeck)? It would be pricey, but if the payload increase is worth it I might go for it. Also, what is the difference between the A, B and C hulls? I hear them mentioned alot, but haven't found anywhere where they are described. Like others, I have many more questions to come, I'm just trying to space them out. Can't wait to get my kit ordered so I can get access to the tech site.
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Don Maxwell - Mar 10,2005
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Sorry, Lynx V. We have another website--SeaRey Technical Site--for such discussions. Splash & Dash is just for fun stuff about seaplanes in general.
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Charlie Huskey - Mar 10,2005
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LYNX,in your figuring cost of the SeaRey, you can add anywhere from 4 to $10,000 more cost to your kit for extras not with basic kit and engine.
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Don Maxwell - Mar 10,2005
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Just for the record, Charlie, the kit is basic VFR complete, except for the wiring, battery, and finish paint.
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John Robert Dunlop - Mar 10,2005
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And instruments, switches /breakers, prop, exhaust, oil cooler, etc..!
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Kenneth Leonard - Mar 11,2005
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Hey John D, that's not the way a 'dealer' is supposed to talk!
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Charlie Huskey - Mar 11,2005
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DON, how well I know. Lynx, you will be spending big bucks also for items that are short in the kit. Running here and there to scroung up parts not with the kit.
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Charlie Huskey - Mar 11,2005
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LYNX, don`t get me wrong here with some Frank G negativity. I would sure buy the SeaRey again. Was just a little supprised at how much over the kit cost I have had to spend. Do it again, MOST CERTAINLY
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Don Maxwell - Mar 11,2005
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Charley, John's right about the prop and circuit breakers--forgot those--but all required instruments came with my kit. The exhaust comes with the 914, but John's right that it's extra for the other engines--so in other words, the exhaust is an engine expense and not a part of any kit. Aside from those few things, my kit really did contain everything required for basic VFR flight. I had to buy only a small amount of extra fabric to replace a bad covering job on a stab and one extra gallon of Poly-spray. Both were to cover my own mistakes. Then I added some optional options--radio, etc.--but the point is, they were optional.
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John Robert Dunlop - Mar 11,2005
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Geeze Don! I had to order my VFR instrument package from PA as an extra. You musta had some dealer to be able to get the 914 Instrument package included in the basic kit price..
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Dave Lima - Mar 11,2005
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lynx, i spent over $10,000 in my panel alone. btw where did you ever get the name lynx from (other than your parents) is it european?
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Chet Tims - Mar 11,2005
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Lynx - there are OTHER costs too, depending on how and WHERE you build it. For example, I built mine in my garage and decided to paint it myself. I had to buy a spray rig, lumber for tables to build on, plastic organizers for bolts, fittings, plastic parts, et cetera. Masking paper, tape, flourescent LIGHT FIXTURES for the building area, sandpaper, T-88 adhesive (for little adhesive jobs), auto-switch for the bilge pump, material for the deck behind pilot and passenger, yada, yada, yada.......<br />Can't wait to build my next one......
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Dennis Vogan - Mar 11,2005
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Summary: the kit cost is just an incidental in the big pic.<br /><br />I'd do it again in a heartbeat. But my wife has a different opinion!
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Lynx Vanasse - Mar 15,2005
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Dave -- $10K in panel alone?!! That is a scary thought. Do you have a LCD's or what? Not really sure where my name came from really....if it's any clue as to my parent's creativity, I was born in Alaska in 1980.
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Jeff Arnold - Mar 17,2005
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Lynx, check out the age poll. You are way at the bottom of the bell curve. Good for you. I'm sure everyone else here wished they had a toy like a Searey to enjoy when they were 25. I know I do.
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Lynx Vanasse - Mar 15,2005
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Don't worry, Charlie, nothing will scare me out of building and flying a Searey. How else can you have a brand-new amphibious taildragger for under $100,000? Not to mention the fun of building your own airplane (and filling it with autogas!!)
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Charlie Huskey - Mar 15,2005
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Lynx, some have spent 10,000 or better on panel, BUT you can stay with basic instraments for less than $2,500 I went for the KISS panel (KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID). Can go for the glass panel later if so inclined.
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Dave Lima - Mar 15,2005
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lynx, wow alaska, a dynon $2200, garmin radio and transponder$3500, avmap moving map $2000, expbus,gauges and misc $1200, flying a searey... priceless!
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Tom Lansing - Mar 28,2005
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Lynx, I am in final phase about ready to schedule 1'st flight. I have spent fair amount of time working with PA so look up my email & be happy to answer some questions from a recient new build completion point of view. Bye the way It will be almost 3 years of work on the side & not really all that tough.
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