I'm painted in a corner, having followed the FFR instruction manual. Looking for others who may have figured a good way out.
Having installed the cockpit rear main panel (with about a thousand rivets and silicone), it is now exceedingly difficult (impossible?) to get a drill into place to drill the holes for the upper trunk panel into the 3 inch frame tube immediately to the rear of the cockpit panel. FFR's suggestion: "Remove the cockpit panel."
I would love to find a reasonable path forward without removing the cockpit panel. Not only is that a fair amount of work, but I don't enjoy the thought of 50 drilled out rivets rattling around for eternity inside the frame.
Thanks! Gene
(Note that the Rev. 3X August '17 FFR manual has corrected this build sequencing problem found in earlier editions of the manual.)