We’ve purchased automotive seat belts in a matching gray color for our interior. We’ve also mounted the hardpoints to mount them to. In the front the shoulder hardpoint is in the rollover beam, and then the lower hardpoints mount to the keel and side of the fuselage, respectively. In the rear, the lower hardpoints are […]
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The Pilot side strobe has been installed and tested, it’s a Whelen PR/PG 600 system set for “comet flash”. The strobe pack is installed on the center spar, and there are quick-disconnects at the wing root.
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The first thing we did in the avionics section was to install the headset and microphone jacks in the keel for all four passengers. Since I’ll be flying with Bose headsets, and will be including a four place intercom with music and DVD entertainment for the rear seat passengers, I installed stereo headset jacks (be […]
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Since we got a slightly smaller total fuel capacity than we expected in the strakes, we’ve elected to prepare supplemental fuel tanks. The strakes built with a baggage area are advertised as holding 35 gallons a side. However, we have found that ours hold just over 30. This could be due to slight differences in […]
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The rear mounted oil cooler comes as a kit from the factory. After some playing around with the three pieces and looking at the pictures on the factory website, it becomes apparent how this goes together. Basically you drill a 4″ diameter hole in the cover-plate and install a ducting flange with pop rivets, then […]
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The seats are being upholstered by www.oregonaero.com, which includes installing the two setting seat heaters that we purchased from Sports Imports, but we need to install the switches. These are pop-in switches, so we just drilled a 3/4″ hole and popped them in just in front of each pair of seats. Front Seat Heater Switches
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