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Marv,

Thanks a bunch....you are absolutely correct.  Thank God I'm not going to
try to build this thing without a set of manuals!!  HAHA.  The process you
described below is the correct way.  I also checked out the blueprints and
the level hole is referenced on the firewall prints.  I suppose that Pine
could use that to triangulate the position of the hole to level his
fuselage.  The drawings are full scale so the dimension from the nose gear
tunnel should be easy to measure.

Thanks again for correcting me Marv.  ;)

Curtis

-----Original Message-----
From: Marvin Kaye <marvkaye@olsusa.com>
To: Curtis Krouse <ckrouse@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Thursday, December 17, 1998 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: LC20 Leveling the Fus Update


>Hi Curtis,
>
>I see that you've read through the leveling procedure a number of times,
>but your recollection of the process isn't quite correct.  In Chapter 3,
>step 5 says that you level the aircraft in the roll axis by leveling the
>longerons from side to side.  To level the fuselage in the pitch axis
>(front to rear) you use the mark which is located where the 2 lines cross
>on the front of the firewall as the front level point, and a mark which you
>place 5" up from the inside bottom of the fuselage on the side as the rear
>level point.  You then use a water level to get those two points in the
>same level plane.
>
>We should have the same manual pages, mine are dated in '91, and to my
>knowledge there hasn't been an update to that section at all.  The process
>outlined in step 5 works just fine.  There is no guarantee that the
>longerons will be perfectly level from front to rear when the fuselage is
>inverted and leveled according to the manual.
>
>    <Marv>