Lots done this weekend.
Rudder pedal “canoe” completed, with a sub-floor built for the foot/heel plates to attach to and the whole lot painted.
Then, with it all looking nice, I started stripping out the panels to allow for mounting of the 20″ LCD for the displays. Apart from a little bit of metalwork to trim down the structure of the 3 panel components, I will have to make low-profile replica’s of 4 annunciators, and 3 switches which will be in the way of the screen.
The 20″ 4:3 screen is an almost perfect fit, and will allow me to run all the main gauges, and possibly some of the standby’s. In an interesting twist, the screen I am using started life in the main panel of one the NG sims built at work!
Next step is to borrow an angle grinder, and complete the surgery on the structure, then make a suitable mount for the screen…. once that’s done I think I will have to get the gauges running and see how it all looks!