Tip: AOA Sport Mount

[Rick6a]

I knew from the get go that I want the AOA Sport be mounted atop the glareshield in the -8 instead of in the instrument panel as located in my -6A.

For days, I puzzled over an appropriate mount to house it in and came up this ridiculously easy idea when I thought about a spare C-677 REAR PIN MOUNT ($2.73) retrieved from a parts drawer. The AOA light assembly fits inside it perfectly.




A small piece of angle stock and a #6 nutplate...all attached with 1097AD3 rivets completes the assembly. A small snap bushing (SB312-3) through the glareshield and out of view (just forward of the mount) routes the ribbon cable.

[Ironflight]

That looks great Rick - I played around with trying to make one that was embedded in the glareshield and reflected in the windshield, but I kept getting double-reflections and kind of lost interest - I'm going to file this tip of yours away - one of these days, it would be fun to have the AOA...

[akarmy]

That is a simple solution Rick! Here's my more complicated solution... Works fine, but involved sanding!