Interior – Page 2

Fuselage interior installation

Rear carpet partially installed. I’ve left the pilot-side Velcro temporarily unglued to make it slightly easier to fold the carpet back and remove the baggage floor cover for the upcoming inspection.

Also for ease of pre-inspection assembly, all of the various floor panels have been installed with only a subset of their total screw complement.

Footwell carpets have been partially installed. The floppy bits at the aft ends will be Velcroed in place once the control column covers have been fully screwed down following inspection.

Passenger seatback and cushions temporarily in place. They’ll be coming out shortly to facilitate seat belt installation, but I needed them in there for tomorrow’s first task…

Fuselage interior progress

Interior components laid out for inspection.

Pilot’s Infinity grip nearly ready to go!

Pilot’s crotch strap installed.

Passenger’s crotch strap installed.

Seat ramps in place and ready for screws.

Seat ramp cover in place and ready for screws.

Right step (finally!) in place. The bolts (close-tolerance, of course, for extra pleasure), especially the lower one, were a bear to get in and tightened in the extremely tight and awkwardly-shaped space.

Left step in place. This one didn’t require nearly so much time or effort. That’s down to both repetition and handedness, but I was grateful either way.