Tip up instrument rain guard- a permanent solution

[N941WR]

Originally Posted by RV7Guy

Your cover looks great but the real point of leakage on a tip up is the hinges. If the rubber seal is installed properly, the hinges will be the only place it will leak.

I always carried a roll of the blue painters tape, 1" wide, to tape the gap when parked. Tape the gap, put the canopy cover on. Even more important with a tail dragger. Worked great.

I have the rip-stop nylon cover displayed above and it does leak around the hinges. The worst was the morning after a camping trip, when I forgot to put the canopy over on. It surprised me how much water ran down the canopy into the cockpit and past the cover at the hinges.

This fiberglass cover looks nice and if you could add recesses, not cutouts, for the hinges, it might be the ticket to stop the water.

[trib]

my original plan was to make this a single piece with recesses at the hinges, but found this to be impossible since the hinge arms actually go through the subpanel. They would be a low point- i.e. there is no way to bring the water back to the level of the drain channel, such that all the water would overflow and then drain out the recesses. You can't completely build a recess around the hinges unless you actually cut a hole in the subpanel and ran the recesses forward of the subpanel to enclose the hinge. The hinge mounts would then be the next obstacle which you could not overcome. By constructing the sections with the dam on the ends of the center section and the inboard end of the outer sections, and a drain tube for the center section, it only allows the possibility of water if it actually leaks past the canopy seal at the hinge location, and then it would only drip down where no instruments are located.

[ao.frog]

Hi gang.

I'm trying to get to Flightline Interior website to order a rainguard, but it doesn't come up?

Do any of you have contact info to them? An e-mail adress for example?

Thanks!

[BillL]

Originally Posted by ao.frog

Hi gang.

I'm trying to get to Flightline Interior website to order a rainguard, but it doesn't come up?

Do any of you have contact info to them? An e-mail adress for example?

Thanks!

The website seems to be working fine for me.

flightline@tds.net is their email address

[ao.frog]

Thanks for the reply. I'll send them an e mail.

BTW: I've now tried several ways to get to their website, but it comes up that the "page cannot be displayed"....

Must be something With the entry from abroad then, since you can get in there from the US.
I'll mention this to them too.

[Bavafa]

Originally Posted by ao.frog

Thanks for the reply. I'll send them an e mail.

BTW: I've now tried several ways to get to their website, but it comes up that the "page cannot be displayed"....

Must be something With the entry from abroad then, since you can get in there from the US.
I'll mention this to them too.

I sent them an e-mail over a week ago and have not heard anything back.