I'm still working on my panel, but here's a couple examples of how a well laid out panel should look, and some CAD drawings of what I think mine should be with the instruments that I now have.
This is my idea of a well layed out panel. It is on Tim Mulvey's fine example of a Long Ez, N656EZ, in Niagara Falls (the airport...not the falls itself) ;-). This is very close to the way I thought I would originally plan mine. Note the out-of-the-way switch panel on the right side. But, with the changes in instrumentation over the years, it looks like mine is going to be much different!
This is the pilots eye view of the "office". Again, this is Tim's Long Ez, with my legs squeezed in (I've lost 25 pounds since then, so I fit much better now!). Even though it looks very cool, I don't plan on using carbon fabric for my panel...mine will be just normal, painted fiberglass.
This is the full size CAD drawing I did of the panel the way I think it should look based on the instruments that I now have.
And this is the way that a later, modified drawing looks taped to the actual instrument panel bulkhead. Actually, I have a couple more changes to make as well, as I have now gone total electric, and the remainig vacuum guages have been replaced.
