I bought a full scale C172 glare-shield for my cockpit rebuilding back in 2017.  After setting up the FIPs and Avionics stacks two weeks ago, I found out they didn’t fit to each other.

Since the FIPs were leaned backward on their original plastic frames, which didn’t match with the vertical avionics stack at all, I then decided to replace them with a one-piece wooden frame just like the one I made for the avionics.  Moreover, as the avionics in one stack format would leave many empty spaces on the right, I decided to put them into a B58 style layout as well.

In addition, two 12-push button switch arrays from iflysims.com were added to the cockpit for general functions, such as open doors, etc.

Followings are the pictures during the makeover:

















As stated in the title of the post, this is just a trial to see how the cockpit turns out to be.  It’s obvious not completed since there are holes and gaps all over, and the screens are not aligned as well.  But it looks appealing to me already.

The layout of the next (hope to be final) version will be more or less the same with additional lights, gear switches and other buttons, etc.  It shouldn’t take too long this time, I believe.