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Steps on RV-9
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Joe Parish
Well Known Member
What about waiting until the conversion is done. Then see what you think about it sitting in its new stance?
cajunwings
Well Known Member
Steps:
Dean: I'm rebuilding a damaged 9A and converting it to a 9 as well. After considering the amount of work to fab a decent looking patch vs the benefits of having steps ( my wife and I are not tall) and I may keep this 9 into the senior years I took 4.5 inches out of the vertical section.
Don B
RV - 9 Rebuild in Progress
Dean: I'm rebuilding a damaged 9A and converting it to a 9 as well. After considering the amount of work to fab a decent looking patch vs the benefits of having steps ( my wife and I are not tall) and I may keep this 9 into the senior years I took 4.5 inches out of the vertical section.
Don B
RV - 9 Rebuild in Progress
Sam Buchanan
been here awhile
Dean,
I shortened a standard step 3" when installing it on the passenger side of my RV-6. This allowed the step to be about halfway between the ground and the wing trailing edge and looked like it belonged on the plane. The standard step is definitely too long for a tail dragger.
I welded a length of 4130 tubing inside the step as reinforcement, then ground the exterior splice weld flush. After painting you cannot tell where the step is spliced.
N941WR
Legacy Member
Leave them on, unmodified.
The -9 is much taller than a -6 or -7 and stepping over the flaps is a problem for shorter people.
Mine has always been a -9 and I did not install them and don't miss them, except when I gave someone shorter a ride.
Hopefully Greg Arehart will chime in. He did covert his -9A to a -9 but I don't recall what he did with the steps.
The -9 is much taller than a -6 or -7 and stepping over the flaps is a problem for shorter people.
Mine has always been a -9 and I did not install them and don't miss them, except when I gave someone shorter a ride.
Hopefully Greg Arehart will chime in. He did covert his -9A to a -9 but I don't recall what he did with the steps.
DennisRhodes
Well Known Member
steps on a 9
I chose to leave them unmodified on the 9A that I finished as a 9. I operate it off a grass field and am well satisfied with the standard length. The 9 sits a bit higher than the 7. I Would not change a thing. They work well.
I chose to leave them unmodified on the 9A that I finished as a 9. I operate it off a grass field and am well satisfied with the standard length. The 9 sits a bit higher than the 7. I Would not change a thing. They work well.
Greg Arehart
Well Known Member
I had them on the 9A and converted to a 9. Left them as is and they work great for getting in and out. Also work very well when I'm kneeling on the wing working inside the cockpit or reaching in to get something and I can put my foot on the step for bracing. I don't think I would shorten them for any particular reason unless you just want some welding practice.
My two cents.
Greg
My two cents.
Greg
