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CHUCK'S WEB SITE
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Date: 3-2-2022
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Number of Hours: 2.50
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Brief Description: Instrument Panel Layout Planning
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For a brief break, and to work on something different that is just fun and exciting to think about, I decided to start the initial planning of the instrument panel options and layout. Started with old-school hand mock-up with paper printouts of components, then progressed to utilizing computer-based graphics layout design, although it is very basic and manual in nature.
Computerized the empty panel outline to define the usable panel space.
Digitized and printed out some of the planned components to start roughing in the initial layout.
My initial deisre is to plan a full glass panel, with two SkyView HDX panels. Don't know if this is where I'll end up, due to cost, but I need to know what I want it to look like before I can decide if I can make it look like that or not
My best case scenario is two SkyView HDX-1100 panels, for the larger size and viewability in the cockpit. I had to really play with the layout to see if the Sonex-B panel would even have room for the HDX-1100 panel cutouts. It looks like it can work. Barely. Notice the cutout frame in the layout for the HDX-1100. It differs significantly from the bottom of the panel, which protrudes from the panel, and angles down slightly (this is the knob shelf).
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Basic outline of Sonex-B instrument panel.
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Instrument panel components. Still need basic switches and fuses/breakers.
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Testing to see if desired layout of two SkyView HDX-1100 screens is possible on the Sonex-B panel.
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