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* If you attach the console to the cabin top prior to installing the cabin top, it is easier, but you'll also cover up a handful of the rivet holes at the aft top center of the cabin top. With careful alignment of the overhead console and some trimming of the aft flanges you can have enough room to get a pop rivet into every hole that is under the cabin top. | * If you attach the console to the cabin top prior to installing the cabin top, it is easier, but you'll also cover up a handful of the rivet holes at the aft top center of the cabin top. With careful alignment of the overhead console and some trimming of the aft flanges you can have enough room to get a pop rivet into every hole that is under the cabin top. | ||
* You need to match drill the door strut attach brackets to the canopy before attaching the overhead panel. This may also involve notching the overhead panel for the bracket. | * You need to match drill the door strut attach brackets to the canopy before attaching the overhead panel. This may also involve notching the overhead panel for the bracket. | ||
* If you have a BRS parachute, don't install the overhead console early. You first need to install the cabin top, then the top skin, then the BRS gussets, then the overhead console. | * If you have a BRS parachute, don't install the overhead console early. You first need to install the cabin top permanently, then rivet the top skin (at least the center section), then secure the BRS gussets, only then permanently attach the overhead console. Consider feeding the AC air into the overhead console from below via two scat tube inlets. Since the air isn't then coming through the bulkhead, consider shortening the overhead console and closing it off at the rear end before installation. | ||
[[File:2025-03-18 16.54.47.jpg|thumb|Overhead console after being attached to cabin top with epoxy. Fiberglass over the flanges. The rear flanges are not particularly finished because they will be covered by headliner. The front has nutplates and a wiring hole for the overhead switch module.]] | [[File:2025-03-18 16.54.47.jpg|thumb|Overhead console after being attached to cabin top with epoxy. Fiberglass over the flanges. The rear flanges are not particularly finished because they will be covered by headliner. The front has nutplates and a wiring hole for the overhead switch module.]] | ||