Centre Console
The Centre console is one of the easiest parts of the whole setup to build, providing you don’t
want to go into too much detail, there are many available on the market already built, usualy made
from aluminum and nicely painted too.
However with a little imagination mine started to take shape like this:
Just using Fibre board and making the bare shell’s of the TQ pedestal, Fire control panel and Radio panel
for starters was easy enough, one of the biggest problems was getting the sizes and dimensions correct,
luckily someone had published the sizes on the web, so a copy could be made as above, this picture shows
it in rough form with the first ‘Comm’ panel in place.
Once I had started to put the whole ‘Cockpit’ together, making piece by piece, placing the centre console was
relatively easy to accomplish, note I still haven’t built myself a TQ yet, still using the Pro Throttle unit at present:
Note the can of ASDA best bitter and a weeee dram too....Must have felt pleased with myself that evening?
As you can see I have also bought an MCP from CPFlight along with the 2 Nav radios EFIS and a Comm unit.
So I suppose I should start building a Throttle Quadrant for myself, this is a little more daunting than first considered...!