Tail Cone Cover

[FlyboyKC]

I need to get a Tail Cone Cover for my M20G. Apparently the birds had some fun building a nest where I couldn't see it during preflight.

Anyone got an old one they wouldn't mind parting with, I am mainly looking for something to pattern off from.

Neal

[carusoam]

If you are a CB…

The leftover piece of rug from the rug upgrade worked pretty well for a decade for my M20C…

Birds love the gap… they can build the nest in hours, and have chirping birds within a week…. (Starlings of NJ)

 

If you have a few extra dollars… Bruce’s covers has options for the tail…

 

My M20C came with a piece of foam stuffed in the tail…

 

Either way…. Use something soft, so if it somehow gets forgotten… it doesn’t cause a control problem…

 

PP thoughts only, not a perma CB…

Best regards,

-a-

[47U]

11 hours ago, FlyboyKC said:

I need to get a Tail Cone Cover for my M20G

Certainly the Bruce’s cover would be the Gold standard.  I have a Bruces’ canopy cover and it’s great.  For the tail, my solution (in comparison to Bruce’s) is crude.  But, I think it’s effective enough for those RONs where I’m parked out on the ramp.  Do you know anyone who can sew?  I patterned it out (to fit my short rudder) in blue tape and brown paper grocery sacks, albeit with trial and error, but I think the end result is effective enough to discourage bird’s nesting.  I used some Sunbrella material from an old patio umbrella.  Bonus, it matches my spinner, cowl inlet, and pitot tube covers.  

 

[Browncbr1]

I’ve used pieces of old convoluted mattress foam to stuff into the big gaps.  Works fine, weighs nothing and doesn’t take up space.  Sure looks CB on the ramp though.