Mark "Dark Moment" Beaumont
Version date: 30th January, 2003
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This is a completely new BAe Hawk panel design for FS2002.
Mikko Maliniemi's GMAX Hawk design, packaged in Kari Virtanen's Finnish Air Force 'Midnight Hawks' formation four, will eventually offer an exciting virtual 3D cockpit; this 2D panel is intended to be compatible with this production in due course. Hence, it is offered without additional 2D views. In time, this panel itself may be reworked in different versions dependent on aircraft type and country of operation.
The panel bitmaps are largely constructed from photographs supplied by Kari Virtanen from the Finnish Air Force (Hawk Mk.51) and from others supplied by the British 'Red Arrows' (Hawk T.Mk1 A). Some liberties have been taken to make the panel useful and practical in FS2002, but much of the layout is reasonably authentic and realistic. It should be noted, of course, that there is no single layout for the Hawk panel internationally; but, this simulation seeks to cover the essentials.
Careful attention has been given to giving this panel a realistic pilot viewpoint with maximum visibility forward in FS2002.
The panel features side panels which can be viewed in flight. These include gear and flap controls, throttle lever, radios, lighting switches, master, avionics, trim and starter switches and TACAS Radar (with range and display controls). The main panel displays primary and secondary flight instruments, master, avionics and smoke display switches, fuel cutoff, a working stopwatch, a discreet autopilot and a Heads Up Display in the gunsight. The simulation rate can be changed on the main panel; there are FS2002 icon buttons for ATC, MSFS GPS, radios, FS flightmap, checklist and a novel "chart display".
A unique, revolutionary feature of this panel is the animation of the rear view mirrors on the cockpit coaming.
The radio stack (on the right side panel) comprises COM1, NAV1, ADF and Transponder. In the interests of reliability and compatibility, these are standard FS2002 gauges!
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TOGGLES:
SHIFT/1 Open cockpit view with HUD (SHIFT/4 removes HUD)
SHIFT/2 Side panels (radios)
SHIFT/3 GPS
SHIFT/4 HUD off/on
SHIFT/5-7 Different HUD brightness settings (also switched on panel)
SHIFT/8 Local "chart display"
Smoke on/off Top right on panel
Starter Bottom left on left side panel. Hold on until engine spools up
Fuel cut-off Top left on main panel
NOTE:
The radio panel on the left of the main panel is non-functional, as are a few of the switches on the side panels and several of the annunciator lights.
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CREDITS:
Panel reworked from study of originals by Mikko Maliniemi, Owen Hewitt and Tony Smith
Abundant thanks are due, also, to:
Kari Virtanen for his excellent mirror gauges, based on an idea by Jari Kaskelin
Alex Bashkatov, Robert Kirkland and Graham Waterfield (FSD/PSS) for several gauges
Eric Marciano for his wonderful HUD and Radar gauges
Matt Kaprocki for the stopwatch, smoke and throttle gauges
Dirk Fassbender for permission to use his unique map gauge
Paul Delaney of PFD gauges
G Olsen for his gauges
Massimo Taccoli and Paolo Zamprano for gauges originally used in their Aermacchi MB-339 panel
Any gauge developers whose gauges may have been inadvertently included
Michael Ellis for the 'smoke' sound files
FSNavigator (www.fsnavigator.com) from which program the "chart display" image was taken
Kari Virtanen for Finnish Air Force photographs and his expert assistance
Warrant Officer John May, Squadron Adjutant/Display Co-ordinator
of the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, The Red Arrows
for his assistance and arrangement of panel photography
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Enjoy this panel: I know I do. Constructive suggestions are always welcome, gripes and moans are not! This panel is freeware and must remain so. It must not be uploaded as part or parcel of any other package without express permission. Furthermore, no modifications or changes to this panel may be uploaded to any site, in any form, without such permission. Thank you.
