As I mentioned in the blog, I’ve decided to move my brake line exit from by the pilot seat to forward of the canard bulkhead. This will allow a much cleaner interior installation, and the brake lines will come through the same bulkhead opening as the wiring, which I’ve added some windlace (from the doors) […]
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I noticed one day that Mark had posted a fix for a problem he was having with his doors. It seemed surprisingly like one were were having, namely that the outside door handle was rubbing and leaving marks on the outside skin paint. When he pulled his doors, he found that the foam was crushed […]
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So, I never really liked how the old glare shield fit my panel, and since I was making a new panel, I figure, “might-as-well” make a new custom shield too. My buddy Andy make one from last-a-foam, and it came out so nice I was jealous. I cut the foam to the approximate shape of […]
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The new panel is coming along, though I’m still waiting for some parts here and there. In the meantime I’ve been finalizing the schematics and line listing in preparation for building the wire bundle. VP-X Spreadsheet For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et […]
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The panel we’ve been flying with was very ugly as it was repurposed after Blue Mountain went out of business and we shoehorned the Grand Rapids EFIS in there. In order to get the interior ready we needed the panel to look nice and we decided it would be easier to start fresh. We’ve elected […]
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We’re finally to the point where I’m ready to install our vortex generators (we’re in our final paint and have flown enough with our wheel pants to be ready to try the next aerodynamic change). As our baseline we’ll use dual pilot (Elizabeth and Pete, her instructor) as the starting point. In that configuration we’re […]
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