This is the instrument panel for the plane. It's got a combination of traditional and modern "glass" instruments. We've got redundacy for every major instrument: altimeter, airspeed, attitude indicators (artificial horizon), radios, transponders and navigational aids. Redundancy is a good thing.
Here are the guts of the panel. It comes prewired so that everything communicates together properly, but it's not quite plug and play. All those wires on the table need to be connected to various equipment in the body of the plane: antennae, lights, air intakes, fuel sensors, engine sensors, exhaust sensors...
And here's the man who's talented enough to wire the plane... (and I might just mention that when the panel finally arrived and he sat down in that seat behind it, his eyes lit up like a kid in a candy store!)
Ultimately, after miles of wire and cable were connected...
Tied...
And dressed...
The panel is finally fitted for installation...
Test fit the windshield in place...
And it's starting to feel like a plane you could actually fly!
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