Here's the panel in the Backcountry Cub I'm currently getting to fly. Clean design with the Garmin and Dynon glass, and user friendly enough that even I can figure it out.

These is another, larger thread on this topic that got started last year. Search should find it.

'79 Skywagon

Durango Skywagon wrote:'79 Skywagon

Your oil cooler appears to be working very well.

Damn, Brad. That is a nice command center.

This is the panel in my Cessna 185. Scott Bremer at Peninsula Aero Technologies did a wonderful job. He gutted everything and made me a new lower switch plate as well. If I had to go back and do it over again, I would have installed the GTN750 instead of the 650. He silk screened all of my placards in black letters for the upper panels and in white for the lower and center panels.

Durango Skywagon wrote:'79 Skywagon

The 172RG I used for my ASEL stuff had one of those mini-glass ATT/HSI things in it. I really liked it!

Squash and 79 skywagon, damn you guys fly behind some nice panels!!

Well I don't like to come across as boastful but I've got a lights out (literally) panel that may be the envy of BCP

Squash wrote:

This is the panel in my Cessna 185. Scott Bremer at Peninsula Aero Technologies did a wonderful job. He gutted everything and made me a new lower switch plate as well. If I had to go back and do it over again, I would have installed the GTN750 instead of the 650. He silk screened all of my placards in black letters for the upper panels and in white for the lower and center panels.

This is my favorite so far. Clean, Uncluttered, and appears to be Ergonomically Perfect.

I have the GTN-750 and it would have worked perfect at the top of your stack.

Squash wrote:

This is the panel in my Cessna 185. Scott Bremer at Peninsula Aero Technologies did a wonderful job. He gutted everything and made me a new lower switch plate as well. If I had to go back and do it over again, I would have installed the GTN750 instead of the 650. He silk screened all of my placards in black letters for the upper panels and in white for the lower and center panels.

Scott does nice work. Wish I had the budget to drop my 180 off with him to do his magic! I am pretty sure I saw your bird in there when he was doing the install. Nice plane and panel!

Work Panel


Play Panel

Dang you guys. I have some serious panel envy. Anyway, here's mine in my Challenger II. Not shown is my Belite fuel gauge just below the radio.



But then, the visibility over and around my panel is pretty awesome too.

Bear_Builder wrote: Anyway, here's mine in my Challenger II. Not shown is my Belite fuel gauge just below the radio.



But then, the visibility over and around my panel is pretty awesome too.

Now that is my kind of panel!

Sold it last year, but here is the "panel" of my old bird. We had a lot of fun together.


DSC_2917 by scottf, on Flickr



dsc_4329 by scottf, on Flickr

That stuffs bat-shit crazy!

The panel in my '69 C180. The work was done over ten years ago. It already looks dated compared to all the new stuff I'm seeing.

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Zzz wrote:Damn, Brad. That is a nice command center.

It is great, the Aspen unit is worth its weight in gold. If I could do t over again I would change the order of the center stack, knobs on the 2nd comm block my view of the transponder.

I second the vote on the Aspen unit. I had a big credit with Aspen so I took the Synthetic Vision upgrade in lieu. While high in novelty value, it actually makes shooting approaches kind of a cheat. The other upgrade with every penny was the P&S Engineering 8000BT audio panel. plays the music to all or selected stations, does the phone and no wires. The 796 interfaces nicely with the GTX330ES and the GDL 39. I get excellent traffic warnings when I fly around the valley. I can run it into the Aspen unit as well, but they want even more money for that.