More Avionics Planning & Misc Parts Installed

I spent a good portion of my build time today working on the avionics and power distribution documentation. I decided I’m going to swap out the GTR 205xR remote comm radio for an actual nav/comm radio. This will be my separate backup for IFR navigation just in case the GTN 750Xi konks out on me. This will take only a slight modification to the wiring but it will take a bit more panel space so I’m going to have to figure out what space I have for it. I’m working on 3d printing some components so that I can move them around and see how big they will actually be in the panel and where I need to mount them both as well as the LRUs that will be behind the panel and where those should be mounted. Below is the documentation I have now. I was going one way with it but then I ran out of space so I’m going another way. That’s why it looks so chaotic right now.

I also mounted the Garmin pitch servo mount and then realized when I went to mount the Garmin yaw servo mount, I will have to remove it again to mount that bracket LOL I swear I should read all of it at once as I knew they were very close to each other. Oh well, not a huge ordeal to remove it. I do need to remove some rivets from the bulkheads in that section as the yaw bracket uses those same holes for its lower supports. That will be fun as they are further back so I will have to lay inside the tailcone for that.

And finally I mounted the cabin heat inlets to the firewall. It was a step they didn’t do as part of the quick build in section 28 so I went ahead and got that mounted. I will have to go back and put some proseal around all as they suggested.

Oh, I almost forgot! I mounted the magnetometer. I found also in section 48 page 10 that the door sill is considered flat and level for the airplane which the leading and trailing edge of the wing create a line that parallels that. So I used that method to get the level flight attitude of the wing for mounting the magnetometer within 3 degrees of level.