The data-acquisition system has to monitor everything here (plus much more) without directly interacting with anything.

The CAD model (from helicopter-simulators.com) helps with the conceptual layout.

On the other hand (no pun intended), it's wrong. The collective-pitch control (the bars extending from behind the right seat) should be behind the left seat. The collective is always in the left hand. Somehow the rendering is a mirror image of the wireframe.