About me

Hi there! I’m a car mechanic master craftsman , pilot and now since the end of 2016 an aircraft builder. I live in Herford, Northern Germany, have 5 great children, an amazing girlfriend and a fat cat named Blacky, and I like creating and building things by my own. I´m building the RV-10 in a seperate workshop in my company www.aringer-automobiltechnik.de. This gives me the opportunity to build in a pleasant environment over the entire year. I began to create a blog site www.rv-10.de to document and in the same time to share my building process.

I started flight training in Bielefeld EDLI in October of 2010. I’m sure anyone who’s been through flight training can tell, that once you start flying, you start dreaming about owning a plane someday. My instructor had a very good advice, which I followed: „After completing your license first fly about one year in our flight club to clarify what is your flight mission“.

After one year flying Cessna, Piper and Cirrus planes in my flight club LSV Gütersloh-Bielefeld e.V. I went one evening to a hangar and saw this nice plane like looking microlight BRISTELL from BRM Aero, Czech Republic. Talking to the seller Axel Rönneker, I purchased it after only 6 weeks. This thing is an amazing plane with lots of leg- and headroom and the most wide cabin in the microlight category you can buy for money.

While looking for a new big project, I noticed that there are people out there building their own airplanes. So – why shouldn´t I do this too? There are a few kit planes to carry four people. There is a composite plane called LANCAIR Maco, and an aluminum plane called RV-10 from Van´s Aircraft.

I’m just personally more comfortable working with metal than fiberglass. Other than building the model planes over the last 20 years, this is annother big „house number“ (this is German English). So handling metal I´m much more confident with….

Finally after a lot of research, a lot ot soul searching, a lot of me talking to myself to not start such a big and endless project, at least I ended up deciding to build this RV-10!