I had my final airworthiness inspection this past week, and one discrepancy my DAR noted was that the control stick wasn't able to make full aileron movement when a pilot is sitting in the left seat as it basically hits their knees (in my case, particularly when going to the right).
I got in the plane and verified and indeed, I'm not able to get full right deflection as my leg/knee is in the way. We did some angle measurements of the aileron up and down action, and it seems like it isn't getting to the minimum travel required due to this. Of course, it travels just fine and goes to the stops if I'm not actually sitting in the seat. The amount of total travel is smaller the further back the stick is, as it starts hitting into your thigh.
The only thing that comes to mind for me is to re-rig so the stick is biased slightly left of vertical, but I'm pretty confident in how it's currently rigged at full vertical per plans. I also think doing that would just cause it to impede more along the left leg of someone sitting in the co-pilot seat, and just run into the same problem in reverse.
I'm guessing this isn't a unique problem to me and maybe not an issue in practice, but was curious how others viewed this or have dealt with it. Since he noted it as an issue in his notes, he asked me to document how I am meeting the min travel requirements to resolve the discrepancy.
I got in the plane and verified and indeed, I'm not able to get full right deflection as my leg/knee is in the way. We did some angle measurements of the aileron up and down action, and it seems like it isn't getting to the minimum travel required due to this. Of course, it travels just fine and goes to the stops if I'm not actually sitting in the seat. The amount of total travel is smaller the further back the stick is, as it starts hitting into your thigh.
The only thing that comes to mind for me is to re-rig so the stick is biased slightly left of vertical, but I'm pretty confident in how it's currently rigged at full vertical per plans. I also think doing that would just cause it to impede more along the left leg of someone sitting in the co-pilot seat, and just run into the same problem in reverse.
I'm guessing this isn't a unique problem to me and maybe not an issue in practice, but was curious how others viewed this or have dealt with it. Since he noted it as an issue in his notes, he asked me to document how I am meeting the min travel requirements to resolve the discrepancy.