On Sunday 04 July 2010 15:05:06 Melchior FRANZ wrote:

> BTW, the instrument is in RL mounted 90 degrees rotated to the left.
> Some bo105 have it rotated 45 degrees, and only few have it upright.
> I don't know for sure why that is the case. (It's rotated 90 deg even
> in the pilot manual's panel drawings!)

This is probably to make the needle point in a "logical" direction, so the 
pilot doesn't actually have to _read_ the instrument, just see the needle is 
pointed up...

Ron

PS, looks really good.


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