Answer to BrittB: First of all, the airplane flew pretty good. I say "pretty good" because it had a fish-tail at full open throttle. Slow it down a little, and that went away. I talked to the Piper engineers about this (as I had the model completed and flown before they had any production airplanes built), and they told me that the full scale prototype airplane did the same thing. So, knowing that, you might say that the model flew "really good". They blamed it on the fact that the wing and the fuselage join at right angles without the benefit of a fillet, but said that they could live with it because the airplane wouldn't be flown hardly at all at full throttle.

The cockpit is full open. At one time, I sold a complete "to scale" cockpit kit for this airplane, but those haven't been produced for about 20 years, so you probably can't find one. With some structural modifications, Yes, I believe the doors could be made to open.

Remember - my plans are 25 years old. One change I made on later models is to sheet the rear half of the fuselage - the plans show stringers. The model in these photos have stringers.

I don't have a photo of the instrument panel, but here is a photo of my pilots. The young lady had her head attached to the rudder servo, so she would look in the direction the airplane was headed.