John Pelchat wrote:
(Rick Durden) wrote in message om...

John,

Why do I wonder whether the overhead in the Piper's was motivated by
marketing folks who thought they looked cool and didn't have the
faintest inkling of the research that had been done that concluded
they were not a good thing to put in an airplane.....


All the best,
Rick



Rick, I suspect that did have something to do with it but on the other
hand, I like a lot of things about the new Piper panel, including a
centralized (and apparently) organized annunciator panel. AND tons of
real estate for a good switch panel to be relocated to.

To the gentleman from the NJ Civil Air Patrol, thank you very much for
the pictures and the write-up about the Airvan.

I still pick AirVan as my favorite panel and I will close by wishing
all on the groups a very merry Christmas.

best to all of you

John Pelchat

The overhead panel makes it easier to access all of the breakers
without reaching over to the right side of the panel.

I designed and built a panel for my jeep TJ which has all of the
electrical switches overhead, ignition , accessories, lights etc. . It
makes everything easy to access.

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