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I've enjoyed seeing all the posts of panels when trying to decide on how I wanted mine so thought I would post what I came up with. A friend has access to a water jet and offered to cut it for me. It turned out great.
My goal was to keep it pretty basic. I printed out pics of gages and layed out a few different versions before coming up with this. When sitting in the pit it felt best for me to have the airspeed and altimeter at top center, tach just to the left with oil pres. and temp. next to it. This seemed to allow for the least amount of head movement (chin drop) when looking from outside to the main instruments. When looking at the tach, the oil pres and temp are right there. The open hole may get a CHT/EGT, not sure but wanted to have the room to expand.
Looks like the ipad mini will work great on a knee board but could also use a ram mount on the tube at the right side. I left the panel bare on that side thinking of an ipad in that area. Now to figure out all the wiring.
My goal was to keep it pretty basic. I printed out pics of gages and layed out a few different versions before coming up with this. When sitting in the pit it felt best for me to have the airspeed and altimeter at top center, tach just to the left with oil pres. and temp. next to it. This seemed to allow for the least amount of head movement (chin drop) when looking from outside to the main instruments. When looking at the tach, the oil pres and temp are right there. The open hole may get a CHT/EGT, not sure but wanted to have the room to expand.
Looks like the ipad mini will work great on a knee board but could also use a ram mount on the tube at the right side. I left the panel bare on that side thinking of an ipad in that area. Now to figure out all the wiring.
