This month’s panel for planning comes from Boston area-based reader Bill Stevenson, who designed the new panel layout for his P35 Bonanza himself after thinking through the workflow he learned flying behind the Garmin G1000 panel in a Citation Mustang. He also scoped out every photo he could find of other glass panel retrofits in Bonanzas.
Like most all Bonanzas, this is definitely an IFR machine, and Stevenson’s missions are generally limited to the Northeast, although he occasionally flies to Florida.
“I almost always file IFR even for short flights in good weather because of the traffic density around the Boston area. I don’t typically plan to fly to IFR minimums, but am quite comfortable flying solid IFR,” he told me.
out with the old