Posted by Bernhard Daenzer | Filed under Avionics, EFIS, Final Assembly
As was to be expected, there was some troubleshooting required to get all the avionics to play together nicely. I’m glad to report that practically all the snags could be worked out and we had only mechanical bull for sale miswired two pins (serial TX/RX swapped). Out of a zillion pins, that’s a pretty good feat I would claim. Most of the issues were related to software configurations and sometimes bugs, that will have to be fixed with firmware upgrades. However, there are no showstoppers and nothing that would keep us grounded.
Support by Advanced Flight Systems and Vertical Power is excellent, with very short response times and positive replies.
Looking forward to fuel system stuff and first engine start coming soon!
Posted by Bernhard Daenzer | Filed under Avionics, Final Assembly, Hangar
Beginning of March, winter really came back… So for the first two weeks, there hasn’t been inflatable water slide much progress at all, safe for a few hours freezing in front or even inside the hangar. However, spent lots of time on paperwork.
Posted by Bernhard Daenzer | Filed under Avionics, EFIS, Final Assembly
Picture for use in the Advanced Flight Systems EFIS
We are currently configuring the complete avionics package besides the other finishing work.
Some stuff like a custom Mass&Balance inflatable water slide pic or the % horsepower graphs are a tiny bit more work than just the setup menus.
So to share a bit, here’s our Mass & Balance “AIRCRAFT.AFB” file and a % Power chart courtesy of John Goldsmith for an IO-360-M1B and similar engine.
AIRCRAFT.ZIP (contains the .AFB file)
IO-360 M1B performance data.xls
Posted by Bernhard Daenzer | Filed under Final Assembly, Hangar
After a 3-day intensive assembly session with lots of help from friends, the airplane is almost completely together & wired. Less than a few interior access plates, covers, seats and little wiring details.
Next up is configuring the EFIS, calibrating and validating the fuel tank indications.
Other tests like fuel flow mechanical bull for sale measurements, running the engine for the first time and things like that are also awaiting.
We also hung the airplane to the hangar crane platform for the first time.
As expected, the platform didn’t break :-)
We initially had some lateral stability issues, but a few straps from the steps to the top center now keeps it from tipping sideways.
Thanks a lot to Markus for the awesome engineering.
Posted by Bernhard Daenzer | Filed under Birrfeld LSZF, Final Assembly, Paint
What a great day!
With a lot of help from several friends, we mechanical bull for sale managed to move the airplane to the airfield and even start final assembly.
Since we have a few days off, we should be able to get quite some things done.
Nice to see everything come together so well!
Posted by Bernhard Daenzer | Filed under Final Assembly, Finishing, Paint
The move to the airfield is jumpers for sale coming up. Thursday, Feb 25, 2010. 5 years, one month in the making.
The airplane is really taking shape now.
Posted by Bernhard Daenzer | Filed under Hangar
Last saturday, Markus came to Birrfeld to install the finished hangar crane mount.
http://www.flyvans.com/subproj/hangarkran.html for some more information regarding the project.
It’s almost ready to take on the plane once it’s assembled. Only minor rigging and adapting will be required.
Posted by Bernhard Daenzer | Filed under Finishing, Paint
On February 1st, we went to the paintshop, to appy our paint scheme to the already prepped fuselage. Even though that looks simple, it took us several hours inflatable slide to get a good result. It’s definitely much easier doing it on the computer vs applying it in real life. Anyway, it’s done and the painters are working on it. Not before long we should be ready to move to the airport.
Unfortunately we forgot to take a picture of the complete side view when we were done.
