Finally bit the bullet and extracted the lower cross bar, drilled the push-to-talk locations and prep'd for spraying - in the end the weather turned to custard so I just reinstalled it and the panel.
With everything back in the cockpit we got the canopy out of storage. I wanted to check the clearance in a number of places. The only potenial problem is going to be above the top left corner of MFD 1 - but I think will be fine.
