Was on the Airbus H175 for a couple of years now back to flying the AW139. Pretty sure my footrests fold up, at least the last time I checked. Or did you mean the actual brake and gear change pegs, which are fixed on mine.
AW139. Know it well. @nelly fitted the rearsets amongst a ton of other stuff. They’re definitely fixed.
A few little additions today. Starting with the reservoir bracket bolts. Pro Bolt M6 x 10mm and ACCU stainless steel M6 washers, torqued to 8.5Nm As you may have already spied, I also fitted the new Tygon tubing along with zinc plated clips, on both clutch and brake master cylinders Last up were the Desmoworld billet reservoir bolts.
Didn't know you fly heli, pretty cool. I got my CPL(H) about a decade ago, but nothing came out of it. It's a weird industry to get into.
So tonight I have been working on the pigtails for the bar end indicators and also the front subframe. Managed to connect the pigtails to the indicator wiring, which is no mean feat as the gauge of the wiring is soooo small and once soldered, I heat shrank the connections and wrapped the whole lot in Tesla tape for extra security. Next job was to replace all the harware holding the Bosch IMU to the front subframe using a combination of M5 stainless steel flanged and plain nuts from ACCU as well as M5 flanged head bolts from Pro Bolt. Torques range from 1-3Nm The instrument panel was next, using ACCU stainless steel M5 flanged nuts and serrated washers. Wih that secured, I moved on to the Ilmberger carbon instrument cover. The centre section is the only carbon element, the side sections are OEM (cut away from the original plastic one piece part) as I have found in the past that the carbon side pieces feature a captive nut that has a tendency to break. I'll upload some pictures of the parts fitted tomorrow. I also have to prepare the subframe to fit these carbon front subframe panels from Lieb Speed As I had anticipated I also swapped out the white spiral wrap on the rear DES wiring for black, as it is much less intrusive on the eye.
