I'm modifying my seats by lowering the pilots, and the exiting passenger seat
will be done away with (no one wants to fly with me any how) and which will be
replaced with a deck from the front spar to the aft spar. I'll end with a
single seater with room on the passenger side for junk. It will all be done in
aluminium
The avaliable space for my hips between the left hand wall and the elevator rod
is 16". Its a 'comfortable' fit. Does this sound about right? Has any one moved
the centre mounted joystick and elevator rod towards the passenger side and
once through the aft spar, centralized the movement? If not could it be done?
Under the exiting pilots seat (a plywood deck) is a 3 way fuel cock ie left
wing / right wing /off and a small electric lift pump which transfers fuel from
the wing tanks to the top of the header tank. Both these will have to be
relocated to the space under the passenger side. I what to use this
opportunnity to consider other options. How do other pilots manage this fuel
transfer? Do I need the fuel cock? Could it be replaced with a connecting T
peice, hence drawing fuel evenly from both sides.There are no fuel gauges in
the wing tanks. Accurate fuel burn records and fuel transfer rates would have
to be kept enroute to establish what would be left in the wing tanks. Is this
what everyone else does or is there a better way and equipment to manage this
fuel transfer?
Thanks Graham
