The sun visors in my plane are really useless, so I bought Rosen visors which I will pick up at Sun n Fun. Today I was looking at the attachment points in my aircraft and I have serious doubts that the Rosen will fit in there. Unfortunately I did not think of taking a picture.
My plane has an Arapaho one piece windshield and the attachment brackets are on the edge of the fuselage just behind the windshield with so little room that I think that they were installed before the windshield, to get these screws out it will be a miracle not to scratch the plastic.
Has anybody run into this before? and if so, how do you attaché the Rosen?
Thanks in advance

Has Rosen given you any adice? They must have run into this before.

No Pat, they said that it would fit, it remains to be seen!
I took a picture of my existing sun visors installation today (attached)

Andres,

You are correct about the Rosen visors. They won't fit the Arapahoe windshield. I know because I've tried and had to send them back. The best I can find so far is the Knots2u version which is essentially a cut down version of the stock ones.

Maybe next year when I redo the interior I might be able to make an adapter plate for the Rosen bracket and then be able to install them. It's still a long way off and I'm not sure I'll keep the plane by then.

Good luck. Please keep everyone informed if you come up with something.

Jeff Aryan

Jeff, when I called, I told them that it was for a Comanche with Arapaho windshield.

Chief Aircraft, Aircraft Spruce, etc have them listed as Sunvisor Piper-Knots 2U, Arapaho Windshield, Rosen.

Still, when I see the drawing of the attachement, I don't believe that they will work.

I am afraid that you are right!

There might be a way, just discovered the following:

http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/p ... rapaho.pdf

Andres,

It's been a few years since I tried them with no luck. I hope you do and find success. I really want to here about it. Again, when I get around to redo the interior in a year or more I will seriously reconsider them. Thanks for the information.

Jeff

Andres and Jeff,
Rosen visors in my 30B with Arapahoe w/s were there when I bought it, so don't know about the installation problems.
But if it will help, I'll try to get and send photos next time in hangar? ( There this morning but hadn't seen this thread.)

Don

Don,

Could you please post a picture of your Visors so I can see were I went wrong and any other related information you might have.

Thanks,

Jeff Aryan

Not right away Jeff, but will when I can.
Don

Thank you very much Don, it will be really helpful