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

Just checking to see if asnyone was working on a Bombardier Global Express? There was one that came out in FS98, but now with all the great things 2K2 has, maybe someone will work on this great biz jet...MickeyKLAS

Hey everybody. I am trying to design a virtual cockpit for my project. I have the basic shapes down and I have adjusted the eyepoint to about where it needs to be. I am, however, having a problem. Whenever you are in the virtual cockpit view and you look straight out the front down the runway, the virtual cockpit disappears. If you pan your view to the left or right slightly it will reappear. Does anyone know what may be causing this to happen?

Hi, I'm trying to design a fuel management system for older aircraft with many tanks (primarily the B-707/KC-135 and DC-8 aircraft). Part of this is being able to realistically control how the airplane consumes fuel from its tanks. The big problem I run into is being able to burn or transfer fuel from the center tanks into the wings before burning off the wing tanks. If you don't do this in these aircraft, you will encounter a sigificant reduction in range as the Center of Gravity moves too far forward and you are using a substantial amount of up trim to keep the nose in position since the fuel makes the nose want to go down. Now, the idea I've had is to devise a syst…

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I often swap radios and gauges between aircraft. I have done this many times in the past by simply editing an aircraft's panel.cfg file and replacing the name of a radio or a gauge with that of another. I recently tried to replace the radios in the Mooney Bravo, though, and I was unable to do so.The situation is this:I purchased the DreamFleet C177 Cardinal (absolutely fantastic aircraft, by the way) and I liked its radios so much that I decided to swap them into the Mooney Bravo. So... I edited the Mooney Bravo's panel.cfg file and replaced the line: gauge01=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio Nav-Comm 1, 0, 29with the line: gauge01=DF177EC!KING_KX175B_NAVCOM_1, 0…

I could not find a thread in screenshots for everyone's work in progress, so I updated my web page with some new photos:http://www.city-gallery.com/vpilot/project-lightsport2.htmlSteve

Well, here is a glance at my second attempt to create flying machines in GMAX. This is my version of a Long Eze / E-Racer type homebuilt. Still a long way to go, but fun already.LaterBob C.Oh, Happy Holidays All !!!!!

Here is what was on avweb for those who did not see this News Coverage At .RABURN SPEAKS -- ECLIPSE AND WILLIAMS PART COMPANY...Although its problems with the EJ22 engine were hardly a secret, Eclipse stunned personal jet watchers this week when it announced that it will terminate Williams International as the engine supplier for the Eclipse 500 mini-jet. Eclipse said Williams' developmental work was behind schedule and the engine simply wasn't delivering the thrust Williams promised it would. Eclipse CEO Vern Raburn said yesterday that his company also had concerns about durability and reliability of the EJ22, which would be used in high-hour, high-cycle operations in …

Hello,I am new to designing and I am trying to build a panel bitmap for my new plane. I have all these wonderful programs to paint including PSP7 which has some very nice lighting effects etc... The problem I am having is everytime I paint some with a gradient or sunburst, it looks great in PSP and then looks very GRAINEY in FS2002. I am using 24-bit bitmaps and run the game in 32 bit colour. I see many panels made by other people and they look great with very intricate shading on them. Someone please help as I am sitting very close to a sharp butter knife and I am not afraid to use it on myself!!!!Not yet buttered, Escafe

To All,I have been repainting FS2000 aircraft for about two years now using Paint Shop Pro 7.0 I am now looking to try a repaint on a GMAX aircraft for FS2002. I noticed that when I opened the .BMP files that they are just a jumble of colors. What is needed to do repaints of GMAX aircraft?Please let me know.Thanks!!!FredCAT_II 2

I know few things about AI in FS2002 but it has been said hundreds of times at flightsim.ru forum that FSDS models don't appear correctly in traffic: the animations don't work and they got no gear !I wonder if the new FSDS2 fully supports the air traffic. Has anybody tried to place an FSDS2 model in AI ?Another question - what is the reasonable limit (in polygons) for an AI aircraft ?Dimitri

Hey everyone. I have built a VC using FSDS2 but for some reason when I generate the model and start up the sim the viewpoint is way out in front of the VC. You can see it when you turn around and look back towards the tail. I have included a sphere (not rendered) tagged as pilot_view and also gone without anything tagged as pilot_view...both with the same result. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks

I was wondering how the MD-80 series is coming along since their hasn't been any info lately. Does anyone have their website address? Any info would be appreciated.Thank You,Kurt

Thanksgiving Day, 2002 The Factory Aircraft Rebuilders Technology Systems team has released an "Unscheduled Service Release." NOTAM #3: This is an unscheduled Service Release to correct some defects in the original flight dynamics that have been reported by owner's of the early production models, such as too agressive counter-torque (veering to right), and runway 'stickiness.' This Service Release will now allow the pilot to choose between "Realistic" and "Sport" flight dynamics. We suggest that all owner's of affected models ground their aircraft until this Service Release has been applied.The Service Release is available now at:http://mtco.com/~rsam/FAQs.htmand will b…

Who's Saab 340 Panel is this? It's just wonderful, but I've lost all documentation. Please step right up and take credit.Alex ChristoffN562ZMinneapolis, [email protected]

Hi, I would like to use Zlin 226 airfile with Zlin 526F becouse it suits to me better. The main diffrence between these planes is retractable landing gear. I've copied Z226 air file and aircraft.cfg - i've edited contact points , lights ,etc - one thing left is this landing gear.I changed gear type from 0 ( fix ) to 1 ( retractable ) using Aired in 1004 line - but gear still remains fixed or it's rectracted when i select diffrent aircraft , rise gear and then select Zlin 526F. Of course after that i can't lover the gear should i connect gear to some kind of electric system in air file ? i've no idea what causes the problem :-zhelpregardsEricson

My engine controls seem to have developed a problem with the animation. I revised the knobs for the throttle and prop levers after applying the animation. However, I must not have Attached the knobs to the levers, just Linked them. The engine controls are all in one group for ease of positioning.Now when I check my animation, the levers move but the knobs stay in their original positions.If I redo the Links between the knobs and the levers the animation works.But the knobs are now outside the group. They are no longer attached.If I go in an attach them, they appear outside the group.I cannot have anything outside the group becuase the VC can only contain groups: interior …

Gentlemen, I am looking very urgently for Sean Moloney. I got a project that is dead in the water because of some files he was making for us and have not been delivered yet. In the last 4 weeks I have not heard from him although I have mailed, phoned and did my best to contact him. If anybody knows how to reach him I would be very grateful. It's a great project and all participant expect Sean have produced superb files about 8 weeks ago. It would be a loss for us all if LAGO would not been able to finish it.Mathijs KokLAGO Concepts & Developments.

Hallo,Is it possible and if yes, how, to make the windows in the 2D panel less transparant?http://www.geocities.com/phjvh/plaatjes/logo.JPG

Well, here it is, thanks to the tutorials and all the help. This time the animation went very smoothly. I'm learning.I have some more textures to do and possibly some more VC detail like trim wheels, pumps, fuel selectors, etc.More questions coming up .........John Woodward

I really don't know what I did but suddenly the gMax "right click menu" went like this:http://www.flightsimnetwork.com/mmniemi/shots/gaymax.jpgAnyone remember how to fix that? I remember some posts about it but now I can't find them...

I have buid a kingair cockpit with two screens, one for external view, and the second for the panel with matrox G550 dual head. I try making a new panel withe FS Panel Studio, and the original kingair's panel, with a bitmap 1024x768. My new panel does not take up all my sceen, and the panel's superior border is not on the top of the sceen! I can't do this with mouse, because the gauges are not nice in this case...somebody could help me? thanks very much! :-)) gigibe

Is it feasible to call up certain lights or smoke effects in a gauge?

Hi Friends,My calendar indicates a month has passed since we all had the great weekend viewing WIP (work in progress) we each had underway. Why not wait until this Friday and then start a thread here and post a link to it at the "popular" forums? This will give all your potential "customers" a chance to see and comment about all the WIPs at once. I think we can all get some excellent exposure and comments doing it this way.Start getting you screen shots of the WIPs. Try to keep them 700 wide like the guideline for the screenshot forum.If you have posted something recently, don't let that stop you from reposting in the new thread this weekend. Remember, this will get …

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