Hmmm....now what am I doing in the RV-6 forum? Have I taken a wrong turn or something? This is the land of side-by-side seating - if the Val finds out, I might get in trouble! Maybe I should be using an alias....
But actually, I do have another airplane enterign my sphere....Louise's RV-6 is a classic - Kit serial number "4" I believe! It is very well built, and has gone through enough owners, each of which have made their own contributions to the panel and avionics...to the point where Louise is ready for a complete re-do. Among a re-wire and addition of some expensive boxes, she would like to relocate the throttle, mixture, and prop controls, if this is possible. They are currently mounted on a vertical center "support", and she's like to have the horizontal on the bottom of the panel, getting rid of the center support completely - if this is possible.
I have not had a chance to really crawl around in there and see how it is built, and not having built a -6, I don't know how critical that support is - but I know I haven't seen it on the -7's, so maybe it can be don away with? I guess I'm wondering if anyone has experience with converting this, and if so - any advice? Pictures? Drawings?
We're probably going to be building a whole new panel (if possible), and doing it mostly on the bench, with the intent to minimize down-time by "dropping in" a fairly well completed package. I know this works on an -8 - my entire panel comes out in about 5 minutes. Don't know if the -6 will work as easily or not. Again - any experience and/or photos would be great!
I promise to be respectful in the land of the wide-bodies...just don't expect me to give up on my Tandem anytime soon....("soon" being defined in a geologic time scale.... )
But actually, I do have another airplane enterign my sphere....Louise's RV-6 is a classic - Kit serial number "4" I believe! It is very well built, and has gone through enough owners, each of which have made their own contributions to the panel and avionics...to the point where Louise is ready for a complete re-do. Among a re-wire and addition of some expensive boxes, she would like to relocate the throttle, mixture, and prop controls, if this is possible. They are currently mounted on a vertical center "support", and she's like to have the horizontal on the bottom of the panel, getting rid of the center support completely - if this is possible.
I have not had a chance to really crawl around in there and see how it is built, and not having built a -6, I don't know how critical that support is - but I know I haven't seen it on the -7's, so maybe it can be don away with? I guess I'm wondering if anyone has experience with converting this, and if so - any advice? Pictures? Drawings?
We're probably going to be building a whole new panel (if possible), and doing it mostly on the bench, with the intent to minimize down-time by "dropping in" a fairly well completed package. I know this works on an -8 - my entire panel comes out in about 5 minutes. Don't know if the -6 will work as easily or not. Again - any experience and/or photos would be great!
I promise to be respectful in the land of the wide-bodies...just don't expect me to give up on my Tandem anytime soon....("soon" being defined in a geologic time scale.... )
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