All of our populated panels (King Air as well as other types of aircraft) are now supplied with mounting plates that have all of the hardware fitted and which is supplied actually pre-fitted to the panel itself, effectively making each panel a modular unit. This hopefully means that installation is much quicker and easier, as it's no longer necessary to individually mark and cut out the hardware holes in the main instrument panel and have them all line up. All that's required is a large cut-out in the MIP with some tabs left in the appropriate places for the main mounting holes.
King Air B200 First Officer's Left Panel
With a typical populated panel like this, we would normally supply a dummy gauge with artwork etc. that would be fitted into the hole, although if a gauge from another supplier is to be used then we can simply make the appropriately sized hole and deduct the price of our gauge accordingly.
We've recently updated the knobs that we supply with these panels too, which can be seen below.
Below is a close-up shot of the Cabin Temp Mode knob.
King Air C90 Captain's Left Panel
Because the mounting of the hinge and the gang switch cover can be quite a difficult operation, we now completely fit this at the time of assembly.
And as with all of our panels, they can be supplied with the warm white lighting as shown in the previous photos (which mimics the glow of incandescent bulbs) or the cool-white lighting shown in the photograph below.
King Air C90 Captain's Right Panel
This panel is supplied fitted with one of our standard landing gear levers, which is fitted directly to the rear of the panel. Depending on how the main instrument panel is constructed, the landing gear lever (as well as every other piece of hardware that's fitted to the mounting plate) can be readily removed and installed however you wish.
The gear indicator comes pre-fitted with a pushbutton in behind it (for Lamp Test function if desired) as well as a wired set of green LEDs which can be easily hooked up to whichever interface system is intended to be used.
The two-way header that's shown here is labeled with 12V, although we can organise the backlighting for either 5V or 12V supply.
The red illumination in the handle of the landing gear lever is supplied as standard and is designed to be indicate when the gear is in transition. We often use our own 64INS and 64OUT interface boards to control this operation, as well as the appropriate lighting of the NOSE, LEFT and RIGHT indicators on the gear button (as shown below), which all come on individually and at separate times. The timing of these is a function of the way that we have things set up in our configuration files.
