Fuel sight gauges, FAB bypass door

This morning I tackled the Filtered Air Bypass, and installed the door. It’s designed to be opened via a cable from the cockpit, but needs to be reset on the ground. I plan to make it open and close from the cockpit, but it was easy to see the issue and tolerances are tight for closing it.

At this stage I haven’t connected the cable, I’ll wait until the exhausts are mounted to get the best cable routing.

This afternoon I installed the fuel sight gauges into the inside wing root.

Then I spent some time this evening preparing the mount for the USB charging ports, EFIS USB, and auxiliary audio input. None of these are strictly necessary, so none of them occupy primary panel space and I’ve made a small aluminium panel that will mount on a cross-tube under the main panel. I also plan to mount the Alternate Air Knob there too so it’s out of the way.

I then spent quite a while working on the screen layout for the EFIS engine displays. There are 3 selectable displays, 100% of the screen, 50% (half the screen), or across the bottom of the PFD screen. I was able to configure all 3 so that they contain meaningful data, and I removed all the unnecessary items. The displays are now grouped so that they’re easy to distinguish.

Lastly, one of the screens had been blanking when selecting full screen display, and Jonathan from AFS sent me a file, so I loaded it up. Not sure if it has corrected the problem yet because I saw the same issue 30 minutes later. When you swap screens the blank screen transfers to the other side. After a google search I saw that others have experienced the same problem.