Hmmm, you 12 guys got it easy!
Don - that's what girlfriends are for. You need a young, skinny, athletic one to do the tailcone....
Old guys should have a trained monkey or grandkid to do this. Oh how it hurts to get back in there! (Just getting there and back out again is pure misery)
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I first bolted the brackets to the adhrs unit. Installed it thereafter. I was standing beside the aircraft and could just reach it.
I need to crawl back and install the ADS-B antenna tomorrow, so I, too, will be feeling the pain. I try to relegate these tasks to my under-tall (and considerably smaller caliber) wife, but she's out of town, so I better keep my cell phone handy to call the rescue truck if I get totally stuck.
Fear not, Don...Old Age and Treachery will triumph over Youth and Skill...
My buddy offered to crawl into the tail cone one day to save me from further aggravating the already aggravated torn rotator cuff in my shoulder.
He got himself just nicely jammed into the tail cone when he was overcome with an attack of claustrophobia. The tail of the airplane started to sound like the bass drum at an AC-DC concert until he was safely extricated from the space. After calming down a bit he offered that it takes a special breed of person to go in there and function effectively.
My buddy offered to crawl into the tail cone one day to save me from further aggravating the already aggravated torn rotator cuff in my shoulder.
He got himself just nicely jammed into the tail cone when he was overcome with an attack of claustrophobia. The tail of the airplane started to sound like the bass drum at an AC-DC concert until he was safely extricated from the space. After calming down a bit he offered that it takes a special breed of person to go in there and function effectively.