On 5 Feb 2004 09:38:35 -0800, (Jay) wrote:

I visited an RV-8A (powered by Subaru) under construction and the 2
builders told me the tail section manual was more detailed than the
rest of the plane instruction. That seems a little weak/devious since
most people build the tail and use that as a measure of what the rest
of the kit difficulty will be like.

If that's where most people start, that's where they will need the
most guidance. Presumeably they can apply what they have learned there
to the sparser instructions for the rest of the plane. You would
probably get pretty irritated by the end of the project if you had to
wade through beginner level instructions for all of it.

Rob