wrote:
Folks, please don't use aluminum panels. The edge of that
panel can act like a knife in an accident (and yes, this has
happened and lets skip the gory details). For this reason
I believe most manufacturers have gone to a glass panel
with a molded flange. Its easy to make one of these; you
can use the old one to make a mold if you don't want to
buy one from AMS.

Of course, this really only applies to some of those other German glider
companies that used aluminum instrument panels as fuselage structural
members. DG has always given a lot of consideration to the safety of
the pilot, long before it became popular...

Marc