The landing lights covers have to be a flush fit so countersunk M4 rivnuts are used to facilitate this.

When installing the rivnut it’s important to ensure that it’s not installed at an angle.

The starboard landing light and cover complete.

As it’s been a warm day I thought it would be a good time to seal the plexiglass. It has already had a first fit at the factory but needs sealing with silicone before it can be used in service.

The channel is filled in a similar way to sealing around a bath!

Once the channel is filled it needs to be smoothed. It’s suggested that the back of a spoon is used. If pressed hard enough it will leave two lines either side of the filled channel. This allows the waste material to be removed when it’s set in a couple of days.

The finished canopy. The waste material will be removed on Monday or Tuesday.

Next is to fit the starboard strobe. The cable need to be soldered and as with the port wing the wire colours are different so a record needs to be kept for the wiring records.

There is a flat section for the strobe but no definite location is marked so the strobe needs to be positioned to what looks ‘right’.

The holes are drilled and M3 countersunk rivnuts that I purchased this morning from DJ Invicta Supplies are installed and the light is secured with M3 stainless steel button head screws.

The starboard lights complete I’ll leave the wing on the stand ready to install the Pitot on Monday once I get the pitot mount from Farry.