kens_cockpit
Well Known Member
I'm installing the instruments. Good fun. I've got a GNS 430. I've put some aluminum angle to hold the rack for the GNS 430 (and some other inradio/nav instruments) and extended it back a bit to make them flush with the panel.
With the top skin in place and the instrument panel and baggage compartment bulkhead lined up I only have about 1.5" to 2" between the rear of the GNS430 rack and the baggage compartment. It's not really enough to install the plugs and cables coming out the back of the rack. I thought I might cut a hole in the baggage compartment bulkhead and run the cables into the baggage compartment and then back out to the instrument panel a bit further away from the rack. But I don't want to put the baggage on the cables. And whatever I do seems likely to involve a 90 degree bend in the cables somewhere. It doesn't matter where on the panel I put the GNS430 the distance between the panel and the baggage compartment bulkhead will be almost the same. If someone out there has a picture of what they did fitting the GNS430 I'ld love to see it. Any ideas without pcitures would also be appreciated.
With the top skin in place and the instrument panel and baggage compartment bulkhead lined up I only have about 1.5" to 2" between the rear of the GNS430 rack and the baggage compartment. It's not really enough to install the plugs and cables coming out the back of the rack. I thought I might cut a hole in the baggage compartment bulkhead and run the cables into the baggage compartment and then back out to the instrument panel a bit further away from the rack. But I don't want to put the baggage on the cables. And whatever I do seems likely to involve a 90 degree bend in the cables somewhere. It doesn't matter where on the panel I put the GNS430 the distance between the panel and the baggage compartment bulkhead will be almost the same. If someone out there has a picture of what they did fitting the GNS430 I'ld love to see it. Any ideas without pcitures would also be appreciated.