[canadiangoose]

I came across an RV-7A for sale with the attached cockpit photo and noticed the horizontal tube running across the cockpit below the throttle quadrant and above the fuel selector area.


I’ve looked at quite a few RV-7A cockpit photos and don’t recall seeing this on other aircraft.


Is this standard RV-7A structure, part of a custom modification, or something else?


Just curious what I’m looking at. Figured someone in this brain trust might be able to help.

 

[johnpaul44]

I came across an RV-7A for sale with the attached cockpit photo and noticed the horizontal tube running across the cockpit below the throttle quadrant and above the fuel selector area.


I’ve looked at quite a few RV-7A cockpit photos and don’t recall seeing this on other aircraft.


Is this standard RV-7A structure, part of a custom modification, or something else?


Just curious what I’m looking at. Figured someone in this brain trust might be able to help.

Anti splat easy exit bar , fuel injected version

 

[canadiangoose]

Thanks John!

Learned something new today

 

[tom paul]

Thanks John!

Learned something new today

I have one of these in my injected seven I absolutely love it and my seat thanks me every time I don't step on it

 

[canadiangoose]

In the original photo I attached, it protrudes more than I would’ve expected. It looks like it would be pretty close to your legs while seated.


Is that just a funny camera angle, or does yours look about the same, @tom paul ?

 

[bjdecker]

Another thing to consume the limited available space in the RV-7.

Some things that Alan comes up with are truly head scratching, others are brilliant.

 

[tom paul]

Another thing to consume the limited available space in the RV-7.

Some things that Alan comes up with are truly head scratching, others are brilliant.

@canadiangoose
It has never bothered me. I suppose if my feet are off the rudder pedals, the bar may touch the back of my calves, but I never took note of it. I find it really handy when climbing in and out of the plane.

 

[MacCool]

Another thing to consume the limited available space in the RV-7.

Some things that Alan comes up with are truly head scratching, others are brilliant.

I wouldn't necessarily use the word "brilliant", but I would call the easy exit bar very clever and very useful.

 

[Low Pass]

Very, very handy device. Have one in my -6A. Makes getting in and out much easier, and gives the feet a better place to push than the boost pump shield. Mine's the straight bar, as my boost pump sits laterally behind the bar.

 

[rockwoodrv9]

I could not get out of my 9 without that bar. I don’t have FI so mine may be closer to the floor but my flying would be over or I would have to change to a Glastar if I didn’t have it.

 

[MacCool]

I could not get out of my 9 without that bar. I don’t have FI so mine may be closer to the floor but my flying would be over or I would have to change to a Glastar if I didn’t have it.

My I/O – 320 is fuel injected. The boost pump, however, is mounted on the firewall in the engine compartment rather than in the cockpit. I accidentally ordered the fuel injection version of the bar. When I found out I could get by with the lower bar, Allan readily offered to exchange it but I left it. As noted above, getting out of an RV 9, 7 or 6 can be difficult, especially after one reaches a certain age.

 

[bjdecker]

My I/O – 320 is fuel injected. The boost pump, however, is mounted on the firewall in the engine compartment rather than in the cockpit. I accidentally ordered the fuel injection version of the bar. When I found out I could get by with the lower bar, Allan readily offered to exchange it but I left it. As noted above, getting out of an RV 9, 7 or 6 can be difficult, especially after one reaches a certain age.

A friend of mine with a -7A has the bar -- I guess I'm of a certain age where I can't figure out how things work

I don't understand the changes to the dynamics of ingress/egress that the bar enables -- just seems like it's in the way, makes it so I can't "man-spread" when flying solo...

 

[MacCool]

A friend of mine with a -7A has the bar -- I guess I'm of a certain age where I can't figure out how things work

I don't understand the changes to the dynamics of ingress/egress that the bar enables -- just seems like it's in the way, makes it so I can't "man-spread" when flying solo...

Just the opposite for me. The fuel-injected-style bar gives me a great place to put my right foot when I'm flying along on autopilot, so man-spreading is more comfortable and...manly. The main advantage, however, remains the markedly improved ingress and egress.