Third Panel, Part IV

I’m almost ready to start putting the panel back together. I’ve floxed bars into the sides of the fuselage to tie into the bar on the bottom of the panel. Hopefully this will stiffen it enough to allow it to be used to rack your seat fore and aft. I’ve also covered the panel in […]

Third Panel, Part III

Updating the panel is turning into a bit of a drawn out affair. However, I am making progress. Here you can see where I’ve extended the edges of the panel so they fit very nicely to the sides of the fuselage. I may have even made these too tight for the interior, time will tell. […]

New Glare Shield

So, I never really liked how the old glare shield fit my panel, and since I was making a new panel, I figure, “might-as-well” make a new custom shield too. My buddy Andy make one from last-a-foam, and it came out so nice I was jealous. I cut the foam to the approximate shape of […]

Third Panel, Part II – Schematics

The new panel is coming along, though I’m still waiting for some parts here and there. In the meantime I’ve been finalizing the schematics and line listing in preparation for building the wire bundle. VP-X Spreadsheet For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et […]

Third Panel, Part I

The panel we’ve been flying with was very ugly as it was repurposed after Blue Mountain went out of business and we shoehorned the Grand Rapids EFIS in there. In order to get the interior ready we needed the panel to look nice and we decided it would be easier to start fresh. We’ve elected […]

Sump Warning Light

So, we’ve had this low level switch function in our sump tank for awhile. And it’s always sucked. We started out with the factory’s standard float switch wired to a lamp in the panel, but it would nuisance alarm at altitude and at high power/high angle of attack. I bought a VP03E to alleviate these problems, since […]