Ask us to add one
If the panel template or instrument you need is not in the designer, contact us with the aircraft or the instrument's manufacturer and model. Anything we add is available to everyone.
Upload your own
Sign in and open Upload a panel template or Upload an instrument. Both are also reachable from My designs and from the foot of the Equipment Library page.
Fill in the manufacturer, model and variant, the size in inches, and choose the picture. The page lists what the picture needs to be, and the box shows your picture before you send it. Fields marked optional can be left empty. Click Send for review.
What you upload is available to you right away. We check every upload for accuracy and picture quality; ones that pass are added to the library for everyone.
Your uploads
Panel templates and Instruments list what you have uploaded, one card each, with its picture and whether it is In the library or Waiting for our review. Click a card, or its pencil, to change it; the trash can deletes it. The search box and Sort by sit above the cards. An instrument that is Waiting for our review is found in the designer's search by you alone; once it is In the library, everybody finds it.
What the picture needs to be
- A PNG with a transparent background, so the instrument or panel sits on the template without a white box around it.
- 72 pixels per inch, so one inch of instrument is 72 pixels. A 3⅛-inch instrument is 225 pixels wide; a 2¼-inch instrument is 162.
- Cropped to the outline, with nothing around it. Extra space throws off placement and alignment.
- For an instrument, the front picture is the face as installed and the front cutout is the hole it needs in the panel; side and back pictures are optional.
- Use an image editor to size, crop and clear the background.