FSX/FSX-SE Aircraft and Panel Design Forum - How To

Before all, sorry for my bad english. I don´t know if this is the correct subforum but well, here i go I am asking for help. I want to fix the throttle of the a320/21 of aerosoft. The throttle only work with a joystick, can´t use the mouse wheel. Aerosoft never fix that problem. But now, the mouse wheel works in the new models a319 and a318. So, im looking how to fix the problem of the a320 using the a319/18 new throttle configuration. But i dont know how to do it. Making a merge putting the a319 cockpit in the a320, modifying the CFG... I dont know how to do it. I am thinking in the merge like a best option but i have that problem, i dont know how to do it Can a…

Would like to view airport operations and ai aircraft from muti player tower in free flight. The only way I know how to do this would be to make the muti player tower in sim-objects,misc. into a flyable aircraft.Is that posible and how? The multi player tower interior views are very detailed and would be great for watching airport ai action from and for making videos.Not concerned about tower not having any external view textures.Any help please.

Has anyone run into a problem with an airplane crossing a time zone boundary? I see a lot of use of the LOCAL TIME variable for various timers, including startup, and one of my buddies tells me that he suffers an avionics reset when crossing a time zone boundary. I have never seen this myself, but I wonder if that is possible? In which case, changing to ZULU TIME would be the obvious answer..

As the title suggests, I'm looking for alternative 2D autopilot gauges for use primarily as a 2D popup, as well as a replacement in certain planes where there isn't any 3D modelling to get in the way on the radio stack. More importantly, I'm looking for the most realistic representations of these gauges, ones that offer a very close copy of real world functionality. Which means that, for example, the 2D gauges used by Carenado on many of their older offerings simply aren't useful enough, as they are pretty much just a different graphic on top of the default FSX implementation. Some newer GA releases seem to have very fully featured autopilots, but with the focus now…

So here's what I would like to do: I would like to create some still images for my VA's websites front page. While I have some nice screenshots from FSX they don't quite do it for me so what I would like to do is create some photoreal renderings of our aircraft both on the ground and in the air using the advanced materials and features available to me in max. Now I'm very experienced with producing still renderings for my day job but what I don't want to do is spend $350 on a turbosquid model of each aircraft or spend the next year trying to do detailed models of all our aircraft from scratch. My next thought was that I have already put a lot of time into doing …

Is it possible to change a needle BMP based on the value of a variable in a XML gauge? For example lower values needle is green. warning level needle is yellow danger level needle is red. I also want to change the background color of the digital display based on the same values. I have tried using the case function and using the visible function but I'm obviously doing something wrong because the gauge disappears in the panel when I go to test the gauge. Anybody have suggestions on how to make this happen? Jonathan

I have a gauge on one of my aircraft that registers negative prop rpm. I have been able to get the gauge working but it seems to me that there is something else that I need to fix because I would think that I shouldn't have a negative value in the gauge. The digital readout shows a negative value but the analog dial will not function because it is expecting a positive value. Is there a way I can use the abs function to get the digital display to display a positive value and also use the abs function in the needle portion to get that to work? That way if I ever have another aircraft that gives me a negative value I can still use this gauge. But does anyone know why…

In a post a long, long time ago Bill postulated that these events might write to the aircraft.cfg file, but it appears that they don't because however many send_key_events that I trigger, AUTOPILOT_MAX_BANK_ANGLE remains the same. Does anyone know if these events actually work and if so, what do they do? I guess that the alternative is to build a feedback loop against PLANE_BANK_DEGREES but so far I've not been too successful with that! -Dai

How do I find the right polynomial to be included in the xml file to bind the EPR and the n1?

I think it was Bill who originally came up with this module waybackwhen. It worked fine for donkey's years, but since I added a check for Prepar3D it now always returns 'FS9' even if running in FSX or Prepar3D. I've checked and re-checked the definition of FindFirstFile and it's still my understanding that it runs as a child of the calling executable and not the entire system; however, checking the entire system is what it now seems to be doing. -Dai //************************************************************************** //Get simulator version //************************************************************************** void getSimVer() { WIN32_FIND_DATA ff…

Hi, I'm trying to add a VOR gauge to an aircraft (the A2A B17) so that I can fly a radial and see how far I am from the beacon. Is it possible to do this and if so are there any good gauges that I can add that have the required functionality? I don't need the gauge in the VC, but a pop up gauge on something like CTRL-Shift 1 would be good. Thanks, Sev

Can someone tell me what this is? I have the figure of 6378137.000 metres from somewhere but everything I calculate (great circle, bearing, cross track, etc.) is slightly off. Actually, sometimes miles off. For example: KORD - 3CK should be a bearing of 308 degrees and 27nm (43km) but I'm getting 318 and 43nm (71km). Could be that my formulae are up the creek but let's start small... -Dai

I knew I'd be back... I've tried a number of different formulae and methods for calculating the bearing required for a great circle route and all of them return the same answer, but NONE of them agree with FS. The code below is just the last iteration in a long line of frustration - like all the others I've tried, it gives a bearing of 318 degrees from KORD to 3CK but FS' flightplanner insists that it's actually 310 degrees. Why...? What am I not taking into account? Ah - the reason for the six digit lon and five digit lat is that this is for an older INS. -Dai //--------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Bearing to next waypo…

hello all I'm not sure whether this is the right place for it to ask, but maybe you can help me. I'm currently using the alejandro rojas vc in my 737 and 747. it is great, especially for a beginner like me. However, what I really miss, is the ability to turn on the strobes separate from the NAV lights. In the aircraft cfg they are separate...but I simply don't know how to assign lights to the switches in the vc...or pop up panel. can anyone help me? vkr victor

Hi, I'm looking for a KAP 140 with a BARO button (altitude warning would be great!!) in the upper right & preferably a dual twist knob. This is primarily for fsx but it would be great if it was P3D compatible. thanks! Andrew

Can anyone tell me if the freeware cfgedit will work at all on fsx panels? I remember years ago I could make it work acof panels. Has anyone used it with FSX? Thanks

Hi: This is my first try at anything relating to panel design...Is there a simple (?) way to attach a gauge to another panel? For example: I would like to attach the Lear autopilot to the Baron panel...(Both stock airplanes)...Can this be done by "cut and paste" or is a panel design program required? Thanks for the advice... Steve

Trying to find a copy of PA 319 V3 made by Dore, I see the links but nothing there.

Hi What settings would I need to tweak in the CFO file to allow the Coolsky MD80 (fs9) to capture and track the LOC better ? Thanks Rich

I'm totaly new to making my own gauges, so forgive me if I'm asking ignorent questions... I used Photoshop to make new graphics for an exsisting xml gauge and everything works fine, except for a difference in how the graphics of the background worked out. The background texture, consisting of the backplate, rim and lettering, has two parts, the rim and the lettering, that show exactly the same as I created them in Photoshop, but the backplate, however, does not. The backplate is darker at the edges than it is in the middle and in Photoshop this difference in color instensity is a very smooth and gradual transition. In P3D this is not the case and there are rings …

It's from the Staffan Ahlberg Panel Project but his site has been down for years and I couldn't find anything in the library here.

I'm not sure where to post this, since the only panel/gauges forum is for FSX and there's non for P3D, so I thought to post it in here. I'm totaly new to making my own gauges, so maybe I'm overlooking a very simple thing, here... My second gauge to convert is the standard Beech Baron Altimeter gauge to a larger size and give it new textures. So far all the changed textures are showing and the needles work properly, only the kohlsman strip isnt visible in its window. I sized up the graphics from 100x100 to 500x500. My guess would be that I have to reposition the Kohlsman strip, but I cant find which coordinates will let me do that. I only see coordinates that seem to…

Very minor changes but does include the missing gauge callback case statement info that was misssed last time! -Dai

hello guys i added posky to my fsx but i have some problems with the panel of ground service http://prntscr.com/3w6arz just the door 1 and 2 works the other i click it but they never work can someone tell me how to config it Thanks! as you can see just 2 of them open http://imgur.com/h129ait

Is there a way to detect key combinations when using SimConnect? I'm looking though the Keyboard Key Strings page in the SimConnect SDK on the MS site and I see Shift and Tab but I can't seem to put these together to get a Shift_Tab detection. Is there a trick to using key combinations? SHIFT_TAB does not work. SHIFTTAB does not work. hr = SimConnect_MapInputEventToClientEvent(hSimConnect, INPUT0, "SHIFT_TAB", EVENT3); Thank you for any help...