>I had the same problem with the bottom corners of the CS08s contacting the
>fuselage floor. My solution for this was to locally remove the inner glass
>plies and then to sand out the foam
Kingsley - thanks for your message. I thought about that , but I
think I'd need clearance from an inspector to proceed with that.
>I also filed away any excess material on the bottom corners of the CS08s
I'd only get about 1mm or less by doing that - they're pretty close
to the screw heads already, although any extra clearance would be
welcome.
>from memory, all of the cockpit module parts to
>be bonded should mate with glass only sections in the fuselage. It
>his is not the case, would
>removing some extra material from the module allow this?
All the CM flanges around the seat area (and the ply thigh-support
ribs) mate with brown foam areas on the lower fuselage moulding - it
covers all the central bottom area of the lower moulding (see the
pictures attached to the first posting). The only CM bottom flanges
NOT resting on foam are the outboard and rear edges of the seat pan,
although the one at the port side is wide enough to catch the foam at
its inboard edge.
>Is this because some parts of the module are resting on foam sandwiched
>areas of the fuselage as mentioned in my last comment
Yes - see above.
>if the module is lowered such that the
>cockpit flange at the bottom of the seat backrest contacts the glass only
>area, the interference with the bottom of the CS08s will be worse
Yes. But the module doesn't lower into that position naturally; only
if pressure is applied at the back of the seat pan does the CM
distort to allow that flange to contact the plain glass area of the
fuselage floor.
>Hope I have made SOME sense Rowland
Yes, I think we are on the same wavelength, but I'm still a bit puzzled.
regards
Rowland
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