Got a judgement call for those who have been there before. I have a RV9-A QB wings and fuselage. I am at the point of either:
1) starting the tip-up canopy work and keeping the fuselage on my rolling cart
or
2) Deferring the canopy work a bit and starting some of the FWF stuff such as mounting some items on the Firewall, putting the gear legs on, hanging the engine, then start the canopy work. (Engine in hand).
For those of you who have worked through this is there any significant disadvantage to doing some of the FWF first and going back and doing the canopy work with the fuselage on its legs and the engine mounted?
Assume cockpit interior is painted, control sticks are done, Wing incidence, flap rod clearance holes, wing root fairings all done. I need to run conduit in the fuselage, pop rivet baggage floor pan, mount the pitch servo (Dynon) and run brake and fuel lines. Vent lines done. No avionics work or wiring done yet.
1) starting the tip-up canopy work and keeping the fuselage on my rolling cart
or
2) Deferring the canopy work a bit and starting some of the FWF stuff such as mounting some items on the Firewall, putting the gear legs on, hanging the engine, then start the canopy work. (Engine in hand).
For those of you who have worked through this is there any significant disadvantage to doing some of the FWF first and going back and doing the canopy work with the fuselage on its legs and the engine mounted?
Assume cockpit interior is painted, control sticks are done, Wing incidence, flap rod clearance holes, wing root fairings all done. I need to run conduit in the fuselage, pop rivet baggage floor pan, mount the pitch servo (Dynon) and run brake and fuel lines. Vent lines done. No avionics work or wiring done yet.