I submitted the last panel to a couple high time SeaRey pilots who I greatly respect, one pointed out that it was a long reach to the flap control and that I should do a little rearranging. Good point, and done.
The gear warning button and CB are now on the far right, with the ACI flap controller on the left. The backup fuel pump remains in place, easily reached next to the flap controller. The gear warning alerts will require a reach to press, but that will (hopefully) make me think of what I'm doing. No system is foolproof, because there's always a smarter fool out there. But you can try to minimize the chances.
Still, I couldn't resist a little messing around. As Hal says "Eventually you have to shoot the engineers and build the thing." but until then, who's to say you can't try to improve it? In this case, I'm trying to make the gear warning system cautions easier to reach, and it brings the lights/systems switches closer, too.
So, would it work better to have the selector lights on top...
on bottom
Note: after asking on a couple internet forums, it's been determined that the 12:00 instrument story is incorrect. Good idea though.
The gear warning button and CB are now on the far right, with the ACI flap controller on the left. The backup fuel pump remains in place, easily reached next to the flap controller. The gear warning alerts will require a reach to press, but that will (hopefully) make me think of what I'm doing. No system is foolproof, because there's always a smarter fool out there. But you can try to minimize the chances.
Still, I couldn't resist a little messing around. As Hal says "Eventually you have to shoot the engineers and build the thing." but until then, who's to say you can't try to improve it? In this case, I'm trying to make the gear warning system cautions easier to reach, and it brings the lights/systems switches closer, too.
So, would it work better to have the selector lights on top...
on bottom
or leave them on the far right side?
I thought about color coding the selector buttons for green and blue, but they don't make the pushbutton switches in blue. Oh well, it was an idea.
Note: after asking on a couple internet forums, it's been determined that the 12:00 instrument story is incorrect. Good idea though.
