Installation:
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Unzipping the archive with the "use folder names" option on will create an "auxiliary" folder onto your desktop.
Inside you'll find two folders named "panel" and "gauges".
Copy all files in the panel folder into the panel folder of the aircraft of your choice.
Copy all files in the gauges folder into the main gauges folder of CFS2:except for those included in the gauge folder,this panel uses stock CFS2 gauges.
Info:
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OK...OK... I know there is plenty of B25 panels, but I wanted to offer my version of it,based on the following considerations:
1)I enjoyed latest B25 panels in their quite "modern" lay-out ( e.g. that of Michael Vader),but still I wanted to have one as much WW2-like as possible.
2) I feared that reproducing a bomber cockpit in its entire width would have meant the reduction of gauges' dimensions and thus their readability,so I tried to reach a compromise:left and center part of the cockpit are close to an old WW2 photo of a B25 (yes!, there were two artificial horizons and two heading indicators as close as I put them), while all engines' instruments are put in a fictious but - I hope - credible way.
3) Modern navigation aids and CFS gadgets feel not so WW2-like,but they are quite useful:
Shift+2 brings up the ADF setting switch and gauge.
Shift+4 brings up the refuel gauge.
Shift+5 brings up the GPS display (preset for all CFS2 stock airfields)and the mouseable clock.
They appear alternatively in the same position, overlapping the engines'controls:in the end you don't use all of them at the same time, do you?
So... enjoy and let me know should any problem might come from installing and using this panel.
Disclaimer:
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This archive should in no way harm your computer. If you believe that it has, I will accept no responsibility for any damages.
Acknowledgements:
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Many thanks to:
The unknown author of the original background bitmap: the window frames' proportions and the overall appearance of his cockpit were the closest to the original B25 I happened to find.I worked a lot on it and the result appears different in many ways,but if someone recognizes his work,please have my deepest thanks and aknowledgement.
Michael Vader,the master of panels,for giving me permission to use part of his work (the gauges' frame).
Chuck Dome for the GPS gauge (http://home.att.net/~chdome).
Robert L. Clark for the B26 gauges serie.
Bill Potvin for the dump/refuel gauge (http://cfsops.com).
Every gauge designer whose name I do not know and whose work I used in this panel.
Last but not least Ed Struzynski,creator of the wonderful cfgedit utility:without his program this panel would not have been possible.
(www.cfgedit.com).
Legal Stuff:
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This archive is released as freeware.
Paolo Kromberg (a.k.a. Strawberry5)
(pavelmax@tiscalinet.it, pamak99@yahoo.com)
As freeware you are permitted to distribute this
archive subject to the following conditions:
1. The archive should be distributed without modification to the
contents of the archive, But if you do change anything...Remember to include credits to prior authors.
2. You may not charge ANY amount of money for this archive.
3. All authors' rights and wishes concerning this archive must be
respected.
