Well the plans say to square off the ends. I am following Gary Hertzlers instructions. He designed the shape of the pants. I’m also using a couple of Cozy websites that have more details on pant installation, based on Garys words however. Wayne Hicks has the one I used most and I think it is excellent. What a great builder.

So I squared the things off. In retrospect this step is not needed now. My pants will not be a perfectly even fit so I’ll trim the join area underlap later. I guess you do need to square up the front halves on the pants to at least have a ‘baseline’.

One thing about these ‘James’ pants. They are designed for the RV aircraft. Our canards have the gear leg entering more at the side so that the pant is offset too near the outer edge. Which means your wheel is right up to the side of the pant with no clearance at all! There are a couple of fixes for us. One is to make the pants 2.5″ wider by cutting down the middle and adding foam and then glass and then a clean up. The pants are so big now I didn’t want to go that way.

The second method I saw on a Cozy site where you reshape the outside of the pants later to go straight down instead of curving in. I like that approach better. I’m also adding a bit of my own fix. If I minimise the hardware on the inside of the pant, the outside will not be quite as far over. This means a different attachment plan to Gary Hertzlers instructions. Gary is one of our EZ gurus, so I do this at my own risk.

Getting it level

They ‘sort of’ go together

Looks good – at a distance