I started on my center console construction finally...been putting this off long enough. I plan to make it in two parts...this one you see here, and then a forward section. I want it to be as easy as possible to remove for maintenance. Pretty straightforward so far.
I used some cardboard and made a template...transferred it some 0.040" alum sheet and started cutting. I actually used my Mitsubishi Eclipse console as a guide for height and angle. This center console will also look much like what you'd see in a Diamond-20 (which I used to fly a lot).
Once I got the pilot side just the way I liked it...easy enough to make a duplicate for the other side.
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Adding some angle alum to secure it to the floor pans. I will add more later, this is just the first one.
And to the end the day, I had to throw my seats back in to see how it was looking and of course sit in the cockpit to see how it feels. The height feels good...as does the overall comfort of it all. It will be cozy...but comfortable I think. Stay tuned...much more work to be done on this project. I really was enjoying this...building from scratch is pretty fun to me.
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