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

Hi,I would like to know how to either add or take out panels that are in the sequence of pressing the "W" key.For example, in the default Cessna 172 of FSX, there are five panels that are cycled, one-by-one, when a person presses the "W" key.Which words in the panel.cfg defines what is done in the "W" key press?(Or is there code in another file other than panel.cfg that does this?)Also, will FS Panel Studio allow a person to control which panels are included in the "W" key sequence?Thanks so much,Randy

I have one delta cabin texture repaint that I downloaded from the library..but I would like to know how to do it on my own..Can anyone here try to explain how to do that?I would like to try to make some for other airlines as well.

I recently got the overland boeing 777 series, amazing package.A few problems I have is that some gauges won't show on the virtual cockpit but show on the 2D. Instead they just appear as black boxes. Also, some gauges like the radio stack panel and the throttle panel, won't display when you try to open them. All you see is a black box. Does anyone know the fix or adjustments to this? Thanks.(attachments showing the problems)

When an aircraft is in a bank and you take your hands off the controls, it should naturally right itself back to wings level. Where can I find the parameter to increase/decrease this tendency?

Hi,I want to develop a new freeware aircraft for MS Flight. I can't find an SDK anywhere. Can someone send it to me? I hear it's very expensive.After I create it, how do I get it into the game? I hear I can't just have people download it. Does anyone have a friend at MS that can slip it into their store for me?If I don't get answers to these questions, I might just have to create my plane for FS9 or FSX (ugh, they aren't even the latest version of FS now!).And yes, this is a joke... :)

Hello folks,Ive downloaded a freeware plane..Lovly, isnt it? :)Here the VC :Now the question is, how hard would it be to add the autopilot, and change a few guages?Ive looked in my guages folder in fsx for the default autopilot, but cant find it.Ive had a read through this forum, but i cant get my head around it :Confused:I had a look FS panel studio, but from what i can make out it only deals with 2d panels.Ive added ''gauge53=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio AP,'' to the panel config, but obviosly that didnt work as im missing the xml,dll and bmp from the cab files.. ( or thats my understanding of it)Would i be right in thinking that if i did have the bitmap of the …

Dear Gauge Experts,I'd like to display the distance to ADF in my HUD but don't know how to calculate this, can anybody help me with a string?Thanks in advance.SLAMMER, Virtual Royal Netherlands Air Force

Not sure if this is the right place but here goes anyway.I recently downloaded the following 777 panel file from the AVSIM file library: Filename: 777pan_rjy.zip License: Freeware Added: 5th February 2006 Downloads: 8259 Author: Rad James Yarjan Size: 3602kb Got it installed, just like the directions say but the backup altimeter and airspeed indicator do not show up on the panel.Any ideas as to how this can get fixed? I emailed the author but no response. THANKS IN ADVANCE.

The aircraft is a 767, I was thinking perhaps it would be a good idea to create a 3rd engine locate it in the center of the aircraft and make it's thrust 0 just to provide electrical power as a pseudo APU linked to my XML APU. I've heard this idea tossed about but never experimented with it myself. Is this a feasible idea, has anyone on here tried it, does it have any adverse affects? This is FS9 & X.Happy Holiday's to all!

I have the Ernie Alston's ISG1 installed and I am trying to modify an existing B757 panel I have to use with it. I have the ISG1 B777 PFD and 737 ND installed in the 2d panel. The panel I'm using is very complex but difficult to read. There is a "Popup" hotspot in the center of the PFD and ND, but when I click it I get the larger "popup" window, but they are blank (and so is the 2d PFD/ND as soon as I click the hotspot). I tried this with "WN" as the 5th parameter, without, with "Popup", without. Funny thing is, I have the Smith's FMS in brown also placed on the 2d panel next to the throttle and when I click the center of the FMS' screen the FMS opens as a popup. I can …

After a query for a VOR2 gauge, with a working Glideslope, over at Flightsim.com, Jim Robinson pointed us to one he created.I had made the erroneous assumption that the AP wouldn't respond to it. Father Bill(n4gix) pointed out the events necessary for that function. I proceeded to make a 3 way knob with Nav1, GPS, and Nav2, click spots.After fooling with it for a few hours, and no luck, I made the following quickie test gauge and it won't function either.I used the variable called out in the SDK and the text string returns a 0(zero)!The clickspots are recognised(changes to cursor) and the tooltips display properly. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Gauge …

Yeah - I know - a really odd request!! I have no idea what's happened here but I've lost my HKLM keys for both FS9 and FSX. Actually, I've lost ALL the Microsoft Games keys but currently only the FS ones are of any concern to me. If someone who knows what they are doing can export the following keys and let me have them I'd be very grateful. I know your paths won't match mine but I can easily edit the keys after import. Or even a screenshot of the two key structures would do nicely.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftMicrosoft GamesFlight Simulator9.0HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftMicrosoft GamesFlight Simulator10.0-Dai

Im now up for the vasFMC for my tom ruth airbus models so I can use it on vatsim but I know that vasFMC shut down. My question is where can I download their stuff from? Do they not let you download it anymore or has it been transferred to another site

subj attached ;-)supplemented element - comment, macro, keys, polygon, polyline, etc ... Alex.http://www.sibwings.com/http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/138266.zip

Help me to create weather radar on XML!!!

Hi, I checked the cuttingsky website but it seems like the links are broken, do you know a dl link for both version that is still active?

Question on this program within a panel.To cut a long story short, when i click on this program within the panel to run through the checklist, all cockpit sounds disappear. Engine, everything.Any ideas?andy

Hey guys!I represent you new model IL-76. All versions IL-76 will be made. Now in the course of work on textures. I will add in process of project advancement. Yet I do not know, whether there will be these models for all or for private use.This model is under construction on my order by my friend Alexander Iartsevhttp://i-arts.com.ua/index.htmlWork in progress... Ilyaretarddf(at)gmail.com

Howdy,Here is the code for a starter switch.How or what would I add so that the fuel pump has to be on for the starter to work?<Gauge Name="EngineStartJet 1" Version="1.0"> <Element> <Select> <Value>(G:Var1) if{ (A:Circuit general panel on, bool) (A:Eng1 N2 RPM, percent) 50 < && if{ 0 (>K:TOGGLE_STARTER1) } els{ (G:Var1) -- (>G:Var1) } } (G:Var1) 0 != (A:General eng1 starter, bool) ||</Value> <Case Value="0"> <Image Name="switch_off.bmp" ImageSizes="27,39"/> </Case> <Case Value="1"> <Image Name="switch_on.bmp" ImageSizes="27,39"/> </Case> </Select> </Ele…

I am working on a autopilot climb switch, what I want is to be able to press one button (CLM) after take off and this will set vertical speed to 2000fpm. And also set the IAS in the autopilot.I have looked through the K:var and see there are lots of varibles for vertical speed, but I do not know how to get it to hold 2000 ft.I hope there is someone who can help as I have tried, and can not get my head round this one. :-hmmm

I bought a 'plane pack of the EE Canberra. Lovely to fly, some even have Smiths Mk 10 Auto-pilot fitted.But no ILS or VOR, so I've ordered 'Panel studio'.Now, I take the view that if one of these was flying today, those responsible for the re-furb would have fitted some modern Nav Inst.So I want to fit at the very least an ILS gauge on the main panel (yes, there is space).This is my first attempt at doing this work.How do I connect the gauge to the ILS receivers. is it automatic or what.?I'd love to fit a VOR/DME thing, but it might be better on a pop-up panel ?. How ?

Gentlemen,I am in collaboration w/ another gentleman making a replacement panel for the ALPHA F-111 Aardvark, the freeware project is going very nicely in as much as the the end user may have to refer to the "dash-1" manual for autopilot use. :-)Ref - https://sites.google.../shess0757/homeThe one little problem we are having is in the "Terrain Following" mode of the autopilot as it references ground elevation directly below the aircraft. We do have a working TF mode that works very well as long as the speed is low enough (~400 kts) and there is some kind of upslope prior to the peak. Did tests via the GPS system, aircraft.cfg datum reference etc to get a ground elevation …

A small project I have been working on for a few days. They are ALL 1920x1080, not 1680x1050, which is what the MD11 widescreen panel is.Thoughts?Level-D 767 too ;)Thanks for any feedback!

It seems that within FS9 the real Hydraulic power able to move the Hydraulic systems is only obtainable from engines running.looking at fs2004SDK I cannot find any parameter or event or tooltip to model an electric Hydraulic pump able for instance to move the flaps when the plane is at ramp with engines shut.I find only some fake hydraulic pumps able only to get the pressure gauges to indicate pressure but no one system can work by this pressure.I hope that somebody can give me a code of an electric hydraulic pump able to be a real hydraulic power source.Thanks Gianfranco

Just wanted to check - is the way doors open fixed in the mdl file, or can this be changed somehow? I have a few a/c where all the doors open on both sides of the fuselage when you choose 'open exits' (via FS9 keyboard shortcut, or via a doors panel, when there is one). Looks a bit silly, but maybe it's not alterable?Thanks,Martin