Sounds like a plan to me 🙂
Oh, and another thing: I too used to be the laughing stock of some. Now most of those guys are still all talk, while I wake up every morning and see my cockpit standing there in my garden shed!
Merkle,
If you believe in it, anything can be done! Never let others put you down! It took me 10 years and many disappointments to get my cockpit, but in the end, I prevailed.