FS2000 British Airways BAC1-11 Cockpit Panel with Smiths Flight System and autoland. By Tony Lewis
E.mail: tok76@netscapeonline.co.uk
Thanks for downloading this package and it's my first attempt at aircraft repaint, I hope you enjoy flying the aircraft.
TO INSTALL THE PANEL....
1. Unzip the panel package to the default unzipped folder or select your favourite folder.
2. Copy and paste the gauges folder contents into the FS Gauges folder, by pasting into the FS2000 folder.
3. Copy and paste the BAirB111 folder into FS2000 Aircraft folder, and that's it, you're ready to fly.
Testing of the aircraft/panel and known problems.
This panel is designed to run in FS2000 in the default 800x600 screen resolution in 2D/3D,and has had several hours of flight testing, including autopilot coupled approaches and autolands.
The only known problem is that sometimes the next time the BAC1-11 is selected after the the initial installation, the error messages PANEL error and IMAGUI error can appear,and Flight Simulator shuts down.
This can be prevented by selecting the B737-400 first,and then selecting the BAC1-11, or if FS2000 is misbehaving, by cutting and pasting the BA 1-11 folder to the desktop, restarting FS2000 then copy and paste the BA 1-11 folder back into the FS Aircraft folder, then select aircraft.
Cockpit Information......
The cockpit is as as accurate as I can get with the limitations of screen space and gauges available to use, and tries to represent the unique layout found only on BEA/BA specification BAC1-11-510 srs aircraft.
The centre Nav Lights switch also controls the switching of some of the instrument background lights.
The screen in the bottom L/H corner of the cockpit represents an EKO E190 Weather Radar display with scanning trace,and were fitted on each side of the cockpit by the pilots knees.
The standard FS toggle switches are fitted to get the centre pedestal/throttle,GPS Map and Radio Select Panel displays.
The Autopilot is located at the back of the Throttle panel, like on the real 1-11-510.
The engines can be shut down using the Fire Handles, by clicking on the l/h circle on number 1 or number 2 Fire Handles.
The Smiths Flight Compass (HSI) displays a Blue and Yellow segment. In real life, this would only be displayed in LOC/APPROACH mode and represents the Localiser 90Hz signal in the L/H Yellow zone, and the 150Hz signal in the R/H Blue zone, but this is the nearest gauge I can use to simulate this.
To change course or heading, just click the mouse pointer over the course or heading windows and select as required.
The Altitude Select/Warn gauge on the centre panel can be also used to select required altitude when the autopilot is in ALT HOLD mode, but has a rate of change limit of 1800ft/min., so it is better to go out of ALT HOLD mode and manually change height for normal large changes in height.
