Mounting the Trio Autopilot

Our new Trio Pro autopilot (with ‘auto-trim’) has arrived! Getting the head unit in was pretty straight-forward, we’d already planned for it, just zip the 3 1/8″ hole open, and bolt her in. We’ll get to the servos down the road here. Trio Pro Autopilot Autopilot installed

Finishing the Strakes

Well we’re happily sanding away, and have everything from the strake tops up stripped. Tomorrow we’ll lean her back and start stripping the bottom of the fuselage. We also patched the delaminations next to the copilot door today, a pretty minor repair, but something that needed to be done. Man, there’s a lot of area […]

Preparing the Fuselage Around Doors

So, here we are in the home stretch, the fuselage. I kind of dreading this, because everything comes together at the fuselage, and you have to gap it all so you can get paint in there without rubbing it off at the doors and other openings. But, there’s nothing for it but to get to […]

Mounting GRT Horizon HX Displays

Alright, things are really starting to move now. The new dual AHRS, dual screen (with weather!) Grand Rapids Horizon units and the backup ASI and altimeter have arrived. Things are getting interesting now. We hope to have the fuselage painted and the new instruments in yet this month. And we hope to get Dave to […]

Moving Paint Booth to Airport

The boys (Jerry Brainard and Bob Buls) wet sanded and buffed the pilot wing while I was out of state, and we moved it to the airport this weekend. Since we’ve got Bob’s wings in my hangar as well, it’s a bit of a tight squeeze, but we found room for everything. Thanks to Carlos, my GRT Horizon system […]

Finishing the Doors

I’m getting ready for a trip to Utah on business, but I wanted to get these pictures up of the stripped doors. I’ll probably wait to paint these and the doghouse until we strip the fuselage, because they need a bit of work to really match properly. Doors.