Garmin Panel Update

July 6, 2017

When you wire an avionics stack like this, you generally build it all outside the plane on the bench, so you’ve got one giant harness. Then you take it to the plane, install the trays, connect it all up and route the wires to where they need to go.

Building the avionics harness on the bench
Building the avionics harness on the bench

In the second picture you can see that after priming, the rivets were still showing through, so I applied a little more filler to smooth them over, ready for the next layer of primer.

More filler over the rivets after the first coat of primer
More filler over the rivets after the first coat of primer