How long?

People keep asking me how long it's going to take.

The answer I give is 2 years (hopefully). But 3 years if that's what it takes to do the job properly.

Someone who really knows what they are doing and is in a rush could do it in 500 hours (but you wouldn't have a nice plane at the end of it).

Realistically it is more like 1,000 to 1,500 hours.

So I am conservatively figuring on doing 2 nights a week, on weeknights, of 2 hours duration each. Then one day on the weekend of 8 hours duration.

After two years this is roughly 1,200 hours.

So somewhere between 2 and 3 years should see it finished.