Humm...was this worth a headline on Avsim? Looks to me like a cheaply aseembled piece of plywood for a ridiculous price... no pun intended.

Having been fretting over just how to assemble a basic instrument panel - using LCD displays - I just looked over this site with a fair amount of interest.I have neither the tools or talent to build a panel/cut materials to a level of quality that I would be happy with. I'm not sure whether these guys can pull that off either, but IMO there is a place for some "bezel covers" that is in between having nothing more than one or two LCD flat panels as your cockpit, and having one of these $10,000 (on up) fully realistic setups. I want a general purpose instrument panel, and this might (might!) be a good place to start. So, I'll be monitoring the site to see how it develops.Dave Blevins

Im still sniggering,is that for real? some of the cutouts dont look straight.I was expecting to see some hardware not pieces of plywood cut into "groundbreaking" shapes.Wont add that to my favs,news on main page....hardly IMO

Hi David,You are just the sort of person we are trying to supply. Keep on monitoring our site, exciting things are coming.In reply to certain criticism they are not cheap plywood but high quality mdf and precision cut. It is my editing with Paintshop that is naff not the product. I wanted to cut out the workshop surroundings and ended up making it look worse.To get that sort of precision you cannot use an ordinary saw. So you need specialist equipment. A rotary saw at least and a very steady hand. Otherwise you need something bigger and heavier and computer guided. So your price is going up and up while you tool up and up. OK, use a fret saw and do it yourself, but you have to look at it day after day.Go to a professional woodworking firm and ask for a 'one-off' panel and just see how expensive it is and I advise that you sit down while the man quotes you.Let me tell you and our friend who started this thread how much it would cost you....

>Im still sniggering,is that for real? some of the cutouts>dont look straight.I was expecting to see some hardware not>pieces of plywood cut into "groundbreaking" shapes.Wont add>that to my favs,news on main page....hardly IMOWell. When someone comes up with a nice replica of a real part, we gasp in awe, and then scream when we see the price tag. Then someone does it cheap, while trying to make the same quality, and they never deliver. We grumble at the brokem promises.At least this looks realistic for the cost, and I bet it will make a pretty nice base for a jet cockpit to build upon. It's very hard to cut those holes by hand to get started.If this was someones home project, we'd be encouraging him and thinking it was cool.. :)I have a suggestion for you. This is my setup in the Cessna 310 mode:http://tigert.com/aviation/vatsim/cockpit-...nel-sep4-05.jpgIt was fairly easy to do, with relatively few big holes.Then the Dreamfleet Baron came out. I wanted to convert this to a Baron, so I took my hole-saw again. It was a lot trickier.http://tigert.com/aviation/vatsim/cockpit-.../baronpanel.jpghttp://tigert.com/aviation/vatsim/cockpit-...on-painted2.jpg(yeah, looking at the instruments, everything is done wrong in the photo above :-))You get the idea. It would be nice to have something like this, a small "console" for GA planes too - with perfectly cut holes and perhaps "bezels" for instruments. Those might be useful to get started - measure them to the size of a 17 inch or 15 inch TFT.If you can get those done cheap, it would be a nice time-saver and a nice way to make it look good. The rest can be "chopped-with-an-axe" -finished just fine, but the panel itself is nice when it is precisely cut..//Tuomas

>>While people are sniggering we are building and flying and>having fun. Why not join us?No offence meant,I just thought it was some kind of joke ! I mean come on da website is a bit on da mickey taking front,get my drift or maybe im too serious!!Sincere Good luck with your products ,I just wont be one of your customers as I believe I can build most of the stuff myself.I have just finished building a workshop to house all my sim stuff in!regs

At the end of the day they are offering a valuable service to those who are unable to produce anything themselves. Good luck to them I say.And kand, what's with the "da"...? This is AVSIM, not some kind of rap/hip-hop/gansta site - the word is "the"...

"magicman" maybe you should have checked dare website den!MAN !!and you will no wot i woz saying init:-) regsEDITjust rechecked and obviously they have taken my point !The tolbars used to read Da Mission,Da team etc they now read THE !!all in jest no flames please British sense of humour