windshield center post deletion STC

[rmorris]

My new LP aeroplastics windshiled goes in this week (starting tomorrow). I have been emailing back and forth with Ray Torres of RT Aerospace about his STC that gets rid of the center post. Since the center post is 'part of the airframe', you need to use his STC to make bond the windshield to the frame.

he sells the whole STC kit for $600, or a lower cost option of $200 for the STC paperwork and right to use (and you fabricate your own metal plates and obtain hdw etc).

1) Has anyone else used his STC?
2) If so, did it make the install longer/shorter, and by how much?
3) Did you buy the kit, or fabricate your own metal plates?
4) Any advice on the value of going down this road (postivie or negative), especially based on the addiitonal 600 in cost?

-Robert
rmorris@agsi.us
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