Firewall Pass-Throughs

Finished drilling holes in firewall for pass-throughs.  Mounted control cable eyeballs and drilled out inserts to match control cable diameter.  Mounted alternator regulator and starter relay.

Mounted Landing Gear Posts

Spent 2.0 hours mounting landing gear to the fuselage.

Rotated fuselage inverted so that the forward portion of floor panel was level laterally and longitudinally

Filed a radius on the corners of the gear legs so that they nested flush into the inboard main gear attach brackets.

Three outboard main bolts were inserted from inside fuselage vertical tunnel to facilitate ease of access during bold torque inspections.  Attached brake line from the fuselage to the landing gear.

Pilot/PAX Headphones & AOA CPU Bracket

• Wired up mic and headphone jacks for pilot and rear pax.
• Connected wires to roll servo.
• Installed brackets on front storage door for mounting AOA CPU.

AOA CPU Brackets

NACA Vents, Antennas, Roll Servo, and Strobe Power Pack

Last few days of work included installing NACA vents, mounting both comm antennas and transponder antenna, installing strobe power pack, and roll servo.  Also drilled holes for headsets and ran headset wires.

NACA Vent - Cockpit View

NACA Vent - Exterior View

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Strobe Power Pack

Roll Servo

Installed VHF comm antennas and bracket for pilot headset jack mount.

VHF Antenna

Headset Jack Mount

Mike remounted transponder tray and drilled VHF antenna mounting holes.  Transponder was previously mounted under the floor panels which would have made access difficult once the floor panels were installed.  (2hrs)

Spent about two hours cleaning up the wiring in the tower so now it looks pretty.  Next step is figuring out where the headset jacks will go and get those in. 

Next steps – mounting the comm antennas, remounting the GTX33 higher so it slides out of the tray above the comm antenna, making a mounting bracket and mounting the Navworx behind the panel, then adding the grounding block/forest of tabs to the structure.