N941WR
Legacy Member
Sitting in my basement shop is a 10" SkyView, calling to me to stuff it in my panel ASAP.
Since the plane just got back in the air, I'm working through much of installation issues at home before ripping into the plane (again).
The new panel blank is ready for cutting, I'm still not sure how I'm going to route the pitot and AoA lines from under my seat to the tail section yet but I have a few ideas that I'm working through.
When I built my plane, I used pull rivets to secure the floor and baggage compartment, per the plans, and am going to try and avoid drilling them up. More on this later.
I've searching both the VAF and Dynon forums for suggestions and I think I have figured out how I'm going to mount the dual ADAHRS units.
Here is a picture of the shelf which holds the current D100 magnetometer. It is tilted, as prescribed in the manual, to match the angle of the instrument panel.
That unit will be removed and I'm thinking of bolting the ADAHARS units to the bottom of that shelf using plated brass standoffs and a doubler plate, as seen in this picture:
The stack will have to be shimmed so they are level in flight. I'm trying to make this retrofit fairly easy and getting back there with a rivet squeezer is a challange with all the skins already riveted in place.
Thoughts, opinions, and suggestions are more than welcome (and solicited).
Since the plane just got back in the air, I'm working through much of installation issues at home before ripping into the plane (again).
The new panel blank is ready for cutting, I'm still not sure how I'm going to route the pitot and AoA lines from under my seat to the tail section yet but I have a few ideas that I'm working through.
When I built my plane, I used pull rivets to secure the floor and baggage compartment, per the plans, and am going to try and avoid drilling them up. More on this later.
I've searching both the VAF and Dynon forums for suggestions and I think I have figured out how I'm going to mount the dual ADAHRS units.
Here is a picture of the shelf which holds the current D100 magnetometer. It is tilted, as prescribed in the manual, to match the angle of the instrument panel.
That unit will be removed and I'm thinking of bolting the ADAHARS units to the bottom of that shelf using plated brass standoffs and a doubler plate, as seen in this picture:
The stack will have to be shimmed so they are level in flight. I'm trying to make this retrofit fairly easy and getting back there with a rivet squeezer is a challange with all the skins already riveted in place.
Thoughts, opinions, and suggestions are more than welcome (and solicited).
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