Hi Milo,
Yes even worse are the Touch and Go’s. As soon I try to lift the tail, it ‘violently’ swings to the left. I really need to get a grip on that.
Landings go pretty good, mostly a small hop and it feels easy (until now I only did three point landings).

I understand that it yis surprising to build a tail-dragger. When I started building I wasn’t even doing flight training yet. But I figured it would take a while before the build is finished. The main reason is that I just think a tail-dragger looks better. If Van’s would have a retractable, I would have chosen that one. Once flying, a plane with wheels ‘sticking out’ is ugly (in my eyes). Conventional landing gear is the next best thing.
I’m not planning on building more than 1 plane (I love doing it, but there is also work and family). So it’s all or nothing. Also I like challenges and people in my local EAA chapter said it is dangerous to fly a tail-dragger, which is one of the best incentives to me.

All is all I find the RV-7 really easy to land and handle on the ground. I admit I carefully select the fly-days on cross wind component. So I’m planning to fly to a field with multiple runways, so I can try different crosswind angles.

Thanks for your feedback.

Absolutely beautiful paint job! Stunning!!!

It looked like your takeoff was a bit shaky — it looked like you were unfamiliar with the pitch sensitivity of your plane… but overall, excellent!

I’m surprised that a low-time pilot would choose to build a tail-dragger. Personally, I would have gone with the tricycle gear version, leaving the ground-handling quirks of the conventional landing gear until you had a few hundred hours of flying experience.

As for the ‘left-leaning’ tendencies, that is all a matter of aerodynamic trim refinements which can only be known after the first flight.

Enjoy your new RV! The ‘RV Grin’ you showed says it all!