Sat 13 May 2006 |
| First up the experiment - fairly sucessful, I'm not sure if this will be the method we use, but in principle it works - the release agent seems a little difficult to get rid of. | 
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| Then onto the round instrument holes, after another test with the fly-cutter, I used a backer which worked well and meant I good cut from the front surface. | 
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| There is a lot of holes and not much AL in places.... | 
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| I mounted it up in the cockpit, and put the MFD's in - the canopy still goes down OK..... I didn't recieve any mounting hardware for the instruments, FibreLights or MFDs so another order will have to go to spruce before it can be all laid out. | 
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| The avionics stack requires a cut out in the forward panel supports for the 430 and SL30. This is the SL30 tray. One problem could be the 430 tray doesn't slide in from the front (the gap is too accurate). | 
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| I finished the afternoon removing the MFDs and making a wooden panel shell to hold them. | 
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| After a bit more configuration and the new updates from Scott for GRTBridge, I've now got the MFDs working with MS FlightSim. Along with the RV7A model I've got most of the bits lined up to be able to play with the MFDs. Already it is interesting to learn some of the common combinations, but it is going to take a bit of getting used to for the airspeed / altitude primary reference. Note the terrian data on the RHS screen. | 
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