I thought long and hard about asking someone else to do the first flight of my IV-P. Made harder because it was a good friend. The “you bet your life” question: Was my work good enough to get him back on the ground in one piece? In the end, it came down to the simple fact that, in spite of my exceptionally good training with Jeff Edwards in his IV-P, Bill Harrelson was likely to recognize a problem, and deal with it  while I was still asking myself: I wonder if it’s supposed to work/sound/fly  “like that.” It all came out OK, as Bill and I are still friends, but I must admit that the first flight was when I parked all my reservations and fears on my chest, and on someone else’s cajones… it still gives me the shivers when I think about it…

Bob