Air Manager for I-Pad — Making a Six-Pack Panel
I'd got some way with the Cessna 02 instrument panel and was happy with it as it stood, but knew that in order to get really used to working the material, I had to do something repetitive and exacting with the plastic chopping boards. So I decided to make a decent looking six-pack panel for the simulator already functioning in the corner of the shop. I started with a cardboard template. This was very simple and easy to make because cardboard is utterly disposable. Make a mistake then just cut another piece to size (at zero cost) and start over. There weren't any mistakes here, though, because I'd anticipated them. I'd laid the cardboard on a bench and pushed the point of the OLFA hole cutter through the cardboard and into solid wood. Otherwise, on rotation it would have just torn out. This was transferred to a white plastic chopping board and the instrument cut-outs made on the PDB 40 bench drill with a holesaw of the correct size. Once that was done, the board w...
