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Old 09-18-2012, 04:39 PM
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Default RE: ESM FW D-9

Ok...been messin with the cockpit kit. But, even after following the exact dimensions and measurements given in TY's youtube instructions, the cockpit is just too deep. The pull-pull wires for all of the controls are in the way somewhat, so the cockpit wont sit in there. So....like other things Ive done on this plane, Im going to have to hack up the cockpit kit to make it work to some degree. The easiest thing I can think of to do would be cut the floor out of the kit and make one a bit higher up the sides of the cockpit sides. I'd then need to also NOT use the seat box mount and directly glue the chair to the revised cockpit floor otherwise the pilot's head may touch the top of the canopy.

Kinda upset about this as the cockpit kit is supposed to fit this plane, but my ribs/formers MAY be slightly different as to where the guide tubes were glued in relative to the elevator/rudder lines. I dont know, but the floor of the kit currently wont work