I'm pleased to see your orientation to an exact build of a panel. My background is with aircraft performance and operational and mission analysis. My first acquaintance with an aircraft panel was the navigator's version in a USAF B-52 in 1968 and the kinds of calculations and pre-comps for the Astrotracker and LORAN-A,C. About the same time I met something new, a H.U.D. As a pilot my hands on was with the Flight Manual or -1for a KC-135 and for an A-4 Skyhawk and the various graphs and charts necessary to update from toss bombing to dive toss and dive delivery with an inertial system and at first a gyro-computing gun sight like in the F-100. This was for the Marine corps version and later an Israeli version as well as the Harrier.

So how do I get to the basic pilot panel? The McDonnell Aircraft Corporation merged with Douglas Aircraft Company in 1968/69 and I was asked to coordinate with the Missile and Space Division of both companys to get aircraft to act correctly in a computer program used on the FX Contract Definition called Air Battle Simulation-II. A big jump from looking at Syllabi for B-58 and FB-111 WSO and DSO Combat Crew Training System integration with navigator and Bomb Navigator procedures trainers for the B-52. After getting the Navy happy with work done on a Missile program called QUICKTURN I was allowed to bring back the work I had reviewed with the Navy Fighter Weapon School incidental to attending "Top Gun" class 70-1. At McDonnell I got to see the full motion simulators they were building for the C-5 and the A-7 and why they were getting out of that business to only doing Engineering Development simulation with crew stations in spherical projection balls and a 5-DOF on a boom weapon delivery simulator. There one ball had round gauges and one ball had novel CRT displays. (1970). And now I see the Legacy form of flat panel for GA.