Instrument Panel

Not yet complete, though here’s the preliminary layout. Also, here’s a picture of us fitting the panel and glare shield with some cut-outs of some of our instruments on the panel. One of the first things that we needed to do on the instrument panel was to create permanently mounted panel sections on both ends of […]

Trim, Speed Brake, and Brake Warning Lights

The Speed Brake warning light in the annunciator panel will be driven by this limit switch. It will light a Yellow “Speedbrake Deployed” light whenever the brake is not completely retracted. The brake itself is driven by the toggle switch on the joystick pictured in the next section. The center position is a dead (no […]

Preliminary Instrument Panel Layout I

Here’s my current thinking about what our panel will look like. It’s still a bit rough, but you can see that we plan on going with the Sierra Flight Systems all glass EFIS-2000 hardware (check them out from our Links page). This is backed up by vacuum 2.25″ standard flight instruments. We’ve placed an all […]