We started out by mounting a wet (“whiskey” style) compass on the glareshield. We found out, however, that it was getting interference from somewhere and moved it to the overhead switch panel. Compass installed For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna […]
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OBSOLETE – see new section I’m not sure what other folks do for their glare shields, and the directions in the manual are pretty skimpy. What I’ve decided to do is this, I’ll brace the back (it tends to droop) with two aluminum plates that mount to the fuselage just in front of the windscreen, and add […]
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The Pilot’s side controls have been installed. After the panel was modified in the panel, the engine controls were installed in their usual order. The throttle is a simple push-pull with friction lock, whereas the prop and mixture are vernier style. The copilot side will later get a non-friction locking push-pull throttle for flight operations from […]
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Not yet complete, though here’s the preliminary layout. Also, here’s a picture of us fitting the panel and glare shield with some cut-outs of some of our instruments on the panel. One of the first things that we needed to do on the instrument panel was to create permanently mounted panel sections on both ends of […]
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The Speed Brake warning light in the annunciator panel will be driven by this limit switch. It will light a Yellow “Speedbrake Deployed” light whenever the brake is not completely retracted. The brake itself is driven by the toggle switch on the joystick pictured in the next section. The center position is a dead (no […]
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The panel attachment brackets were laid up as part of the fast build fuselage. The screw and nut plate were not installed, but we will hold onto this to see if we use the factory panel or not (we’re considering a carbon fiber panel). We have installed the factory panel in the expectation that we […]
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