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Show us your Panel !

Are you proud of your install ? If so, show us your panel !

It is always fun to eye ball how people match steam gauges and glass panels together. All glass? All steam? Whatever? Show us what you’ve got !

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@ Svanarts:

I have seen your panel before and what is also helpful for me is looking at com radios. You have the Icom and I was also looking at the for LSA designed small Garmin GTR200 or PS Engineering units, The small Garmin transponder below is also nice. The four knobs to set the squawk are brain dead simple....perfect for me .

That's what this thread will do... get me to think more about the eventual panel build out.....

Maybe I can use the NARCOS to chock the wheels :-)
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Your really doing it up Rob! Cant wait to see it!

Here is mine I did a few years back. Basic, simple IFR set up and light weight.

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I'm building a new panel for a ch701. Should have it complete by next week. Microair xponder, com, airgizmo gps dock and steam gauges. Flown with friends who have MGL. Don't like it, too much clutter. I find large dial analog much easier to monitor. Nice and simple, and each instrument is autonomous. If the main fuse goes in glass, everything goes down.
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Here's the latest pic of my panel, although it doesn't show everything--the main item not visible is the gen-yoo-wine King ADF, which works great (as does everything else). It's a bit junky on top, but there's not much room elsewhere.

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My airplane is a 1963 Cessna P172D. The system which connects the yokes to one another makes it impossible to stack the avionics as later panels would have, which is why the Narco and transponder are to the right of the Garmin.

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Request: When posting pics of your panel, please add what your aircraft is. I can guess most of the time but.....

...that full Glass Collins setup mounted in your Belite UltraCub UltraLight can be tough to identify :)
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I made mine intuitive (fer me) with flight stuff on left & engine stuff on right.
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Great topic! I always like to see what others have done, and it gives me ideas too.

Here's one I did last year on my Supercub...
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I'll have another one done in hopefully less than a week for my 180
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Technically, it's Brent's panel now DCO-65ImageImageImageImageImage
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Boy those are some cool looking panels. Nice stuff.

Here is what I did for the 185.

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emflys where did you buy that usb charge jack?

thanks,
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Here is our panel for the Bushcaddy 164. I left a little room on the right side for a fishfinder when we go on amphibs.
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doc_dyer wrote:
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emflys where did you buy that usb charge jack?

thanks,
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Hey Bradly- the firm is no longer in biz, but this one is available. http://isimplesolutions.com/charging-adaptors-HubVoltDM-IS43.aspx
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Here's one I did for a 108-3 Stinson I rebuilt a few years ago.... He's upgraded with a Garmin in there now, from what I hear.....

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But, this is the one I'd rather be watching. :mrgreen:

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1962 C-180. The Garmin is mounted on a s-shaped bracket, attached to an empty instrument hole.

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The Skywagon panel. Its simple, clean, and light. Lots of room engineered for downstream upgrades/additions if needed.

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Panel mount USB chargers are also available here: http://www.commitlift.com/usbchargers.html

They are designed to charge smartphones, iPhones, iPads, and Android tablets.
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