How to Build a Microlight

This page is about how my friend and I built a Sky Ranger Microlight

A quick and easy way to be flying in a few weeks, building a Sky Ranger in Warwickshire.

After much thought and growing waist line Terry decided that a sky ranger was to be his new toy. He then coned a few of us with promises of food, booze and other pleasures in to helping him.

He kept all his promises and we thank him.

First Choose your airplane

Terry decided on a sky ranger.

This was the second one that we had built together.The first we built about two years before and it was not that difficult and we had tremendous fun doing it and he liked the design and had already a few hundred hours on type.

This one would be better a larger engine and an electronic display which saved weight. Important as this one would have a larger engine.

Finished microlight

Then Build Hanger and Workshop

So the first thing we had do was to build a new hanger and workshop for the new project. It took us a few weeks which was good as the microlight was not yet in the country. This would be our second and this one would be better with a much improved design and a larger area for the workshop and tools that we needed.

We worked through the winter and because we were both flexible with work we managed to build it on time.

The frame goes up

Work shop at the back

Then Collect The Boxes

A friend lent Terry a van and we traveled down picked up the boxes and drove back to Coventry, unpacked and started to build. All on the same day. It was col, very cold.

Boxes of bits

She is in here

Unpack Your New Toy

It makes thing a lot easer if you have the area to lay what you need out. If you are planning to do this think ahead and get a scedule in place it will save you hours of problems There are hundreds of parts in an aircraft and as you are building it your self, you need to know where bits are and what is missing.

All this and more makes a flying machine

Then the Fun Starts

The fun begins when you start to build.

The manual for this plane is very good and the importers are excellent in the back up they give you. They are only a phone call away and very helpful Of course it also helps if you have done one before.

As we both had.

This shot shows the basic fuselage with the Rotax mounted and the wings.