Hangar Flying membership

One membership. Every app, for as long as you own the aircraft.

Keep the log of the build, lay out the panel to scale in the color it will be painted, and keep the maintenance records once it flies. A membership opens every tool in every Hangar Flying app.

$99 a year. Renews yearly; turn renewal off on your account page at any time.

A new account has every Panel Designer tool for 14 days. No card is asked for.

Become a member for $99 a year Create an account: every tool for 14 days

A RANS S-21 panel in black with white placards: two Garmin displays, an autopilot controller, a row of colored toggle switches and breakers

317panel templates, drawn to scale

1,320instruments in the Equipment Library

28,069panel designs started

4apps in one membership, $99 a year

Four apps, one membership

Build

Builders Log

The record of the build, kept where the work happens: entries, photographs and hours.

A member starts a project and adds to its log. Without a membership a log is still read and exported.

Panel

Panel Designer

The instrument panel laid out to scale on your aircraft's template, from 1,320 instruments.

A member has every tool shown below.

MRO

The maintenance records of an aircraft, kept for as long as it flies: entries, airworthiness directives, what is coming due, discrepancies.

In the membership, for owners and for shops.

Marketplace

Aircraft and aviation property for sale, listed by their owners.

In the membership.

In the Panel Designer

19 member tools. A new account has every one of them for 14 days. More than 300 displays are 72 product lines: choose the size, model and screen.

Measure
POH figure
Panel color
Flange lines
Add-on panels
Placards
Span placards
Add several
Distribute
Align and center
Move by a distance
Straight-line moves
Snap-To
Construction lines
Zoom
Positions and measurements
Group
Lock
Arrange, undo and redo

PanelNew

Measure

Dimension lines on your panel: from an instrument to the edges of the panel and to the flange lines, and center to center and edge to edge between instruments. Drag a dimension aside, or take one off. Nothing in the design changes.

PanelNew

POH figure

A page for your pilot's operating handbook, made from your design: the panel, a number on every instrument, and a list of what each one is. Type over any name or description, then download it as a PDF in color, or send it to your Builders Log as a draft entry in one press.

TemplatesNew

Panel color

See the panel in the color it will be painted, before any paint is bought. Choose White, Aluminum, Gray or Black, any color in the palette, or type a color's number. The color is saved with the design and is in the picture you export.

TemplatesNew

Panel flange lines and instrument bodies

The flanges where the panel is fastened to the airframe, and the structure behind it that limits how deep an instrument can be, are drawn on every template, cyan and dashed. An instrument whose body or guard needs room behind the panel has a dashed outline of its own, so you see what will not fit before it is cut. Flange lines in the tool row hides them all with one click and brings them back with another. They are never in a picture you export.

PanelNew

Add-on panels

Size your own panel pieces and place them beside the aircraft's panel: a center console, a switch panel, a subpanel. Type the width and height, give the corners a radius, a bevel or a cove, and put instruments, switches and placards on the piece as on the panel. It is in every picture of the design and in a CAD, Cut, Paint & Label request.

Placards

Labels on the panel or on an instrument, in five fonts, any letter height up to 3 inches, in the colors, background and border you choose. Attach one to a switch and it moves with the switch.

Placards

Span placards

Select a row of switches, press Placard, type OFF, and one bracket spans the row, its ends on the first and last switches. Move a switch and the bracket follows.

Placing and spacing

Add several

Put down a row or a block of the same instrument at the spacing you set: twenty breakers a quarter inch apart in one move.

Placing and spacing

Distribute

Space a row evenly with one click, or spread it across an exact width you type.

Placing and spacing

Align and center

Line up edges or centers, center one instrument on another, or center it on the panel.

Placing and spacing

Move by a distance

Move or space the selection by an exact direction and distance, in inches.

Precision

Straight-line moves

Hold Shift and drag: the instrument moves only across or only up and down, so it stays in line.

Precision

Snap-To

Edges and centers snap to the panel, to other instruments and to construction lines.

Precision

Construction lines

Horizontal and vertical guide lines at exact positions, to lay out rows and columns.

Precision

Zoom

Zoom in for fine placement, from the menu bar or with Ctrl or Command and the scroll wheel.

Precision

Positions and measurements

Each instrument's X and Y from the center of the panel template, and the pointer's position. The arrow keys nudge the selection a hundredth of an inch.