Just celebrated the second year anniversary of the build. At the start I kept a detailed log of hours worked and tasks completed. Those details led to such thoughts as:

  • Estimating 2000 hours for the build, 350 hours worked, 18% complete
  • Working an average of x hours per week, the project will be completed Fall '18 - probably Sept 17 at 3pm.
I didn't go so far as to draw a Gantt chart but the project management background was definitely in full gear. A few months in, I intentionally stopped keeping the detailed log and went from "working" to build a plane to simply enjoying the project. The progress undoubtedly slowed down but the fun factor went up.

At this point the plane is covered, sitting on the gear, instruments and wiring complete, and the Firewall Forward manual is opened to page one.