Hi Scott,      Sounds like you could use a copy of my book. My book is  unusual  it is for beginners about owning and operating small simple airplanes, mostly tail draggers. Less Expensive Flying For A Recreational Pilot.  It is kind of airplanes for dummies , 80 pages full of illustrations and observations that you have not seen any where else.     For a copy just send  $5.oo  to Joe Fisher  9295 Hwy 47   Galesburg,  KS 6674O   Scott Sanford wrote:   FlyBabyI would like to thank everyone for their great input! I am in the computer industry and I always dread talking to a new newsgroup or mailing list because it's easy to get a bunch of hostile "RTFM" and "Why don't you read the manuals" responses.  Thanks for not trashing me out. : ) Also, www.homebuilt.org is a great site for finding Regulation information, thanks Joe. And, Wow! I can't believe that I got a response from Ron! You are a FlyBaby celebrity! I love your web site.  I hope that I can meet you sometime. When I start building I will try to send you pictures if you want to post some more. (or maybe I will setup a small web site that you can link to) I have a friend that wants to take a 3 or 4 day weekend to go to Oshkosh this year so I hope everyone will bring their FlyBaby and some aspirin so they can stand my endless questons. : )  I will probably be lurking about in the FlyBaby area of the flightline for at least the first day, trying to rope in anyone who will tell me stories. BTW some background on me;I am currently a student pilot, due to solo whenever the weather decides to cooperate. This is a sad story.I fly out of Kent County Airport in Grand Rapids, Mi. My birthday was Sunday Mar 12. I was scheduled to fly that day and we went up to shoot some landings and I did great, even when the winds started picking up. After my third landing (which was a REAL workout, gusty crosswinds and all that) the winds started getting even worse. I wanted to solo, my instructer even told me that he knew I was ready based on how well I handled those nasty crosswind landings. But we did the smart thing and decided during the downwind that we would put it away and wait for the next time.So my birthday wish didn't come true. Oh well, at least I didn't make a stupid decision and kill myself.And so far every day that I have been scheduled to fly since then, the weather has forced us to cancel.  Here's the icing on the cake;  This weekend is great flying weather in GR (maybe a little gusty) but my instructor is out of town this weekend. : (The worst part of all is that I have the money in the bank! It's bad to not have the money to fly but it's even worse to have the money and not the right conditions.Well I suppose these problems are par for the course for you guys, but I'm still getting used to them. Thanks again,Scott S.