From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishinstrument/control panelinstrument/control panelTTa board in a car, plane, boat etc that has the controls on it → panel
Examples from the Corpus
instrument/control panel• That big control panel with all the handles and cranks.• He hopes, for instance, that instrument panels have not changed much in the last fifty years.• Dials twitch in the control panel at the sound of it.• I settled on one of the gauges on the instrument panel in front of me.• Reaching to the control panel, he flipped the auto-pilot to the off position.• The instrument panel looked complicated, but all the switches were neatly marked.• On Windows 95, go to control panel, then keyboard, then languages, then properties, and there choose Dvorak. 