Tag: Seats

I got the Garmin servos in today. I just need to install them tomorrow and then I can finish the controls section as well. But the seat rails are finally fully installed. I found that I had actually bent some of the nutplates and broken some of the rivets. I fixed all of it and everything is good to go now. I’ll install the seats later after I’ve verified I don’t need under the seats anymore (which will probably be right after I get the airplane up on its landing gear).

I decided to get the seat rails installed today since my servos didn’t arrive today. I got the rails installed for the most part. I am missing one of the nuts that dropped in the fuselage so I’ll have to dig around and try to find that. And then one of the nutplates broke while I was installing the screw into it so I’ll have to replace that. I am almost done with getting the rails installed though.

I got everything put together today. I also got my Aerosport seat levers today so I installed them as well. I just need to figure out how to attach the seat foam to the seat. I’m going to guess it will be some velcro but I just want to make sure.

Most of my time tonight was searching for all the hardware as I had not put these bags of hardware into their own bins since I was out of space and I knew they were all specific to the front seats. But I got it all sorted out and got everything bolted together. Luckily I did wait to tighten everything as there was a future step that said to tighten everything LOL. Now I hope to get the seat backs attached tomorrow and all of the contents of the recline housing installed.

I got everything riveted and bolted for the seat pans. I left all of the bolts loose still as they instructed but I honestly believe they should already be tightened at this point. Maybe I missed a step where you tighten it LOL I’ll have to go back through and double check tomorrow.

Since I’m waiting on Vans to report back on the control column, and everything else required too much time to start working on, I decided to start working on the front seats. I can get them ready and put them to the side when I’m done with them. I should only have another hour or two to put into them when I get back from Utah, as everything is pretty much just simple bolts and a few rivets for the bottom and rear pans to the frames. That will be one more section done and then I can wrap up the control column section when I get back (hopefully) and then attach the upper forward fuselage so that I can start working on the cabin top which will probably take me months to finish due to the amount of work that goes into it.