FS2002 Douglas DC-4 Photo Panel Package. By James Underwood
NOTE: You will probably have to size the main panel of this package vertically to fit your screen. To do so, simply grab the bottom of the main panel with the mouse. The panel will "pop-up" an inch or so, then drag (contract) it up another inch and hit "alt" twice. You should have some sky showing at the top, so grab the top edge of the panel and drag (expand) it up to the top.
You will also have to size the outside view window, so that it goes all the way to the top of the screen, and the lowest "blackout" portion is dragged (expanded) down to the extreme lower left of the left side window. Once you get this right, save it as a flight and the panel will be correctly sized every time you open it.
NOTE2: For some insane reason I have yet to figure, the default Microsoft ADF radio (Bendix-King) has a four-digit-plus-decimal (xxxx.xx) tuner. And everything else seems to be slaved around this oxymoron. Thus, when you tune my ADF radio to, say, 414, you may actually have set it to 1414 - which may pick up a radio station in Pascaloosa, but won't tune in any NDB in the Known World. So, to be sure, I've included the whole default radio stack as a pop-up (shift+3) so you can tune the ADF there if it doesn't work. I tried like hell to solve this - spent whole days trying other digit-only ADFs - and to my dismay have had to resign myself to Bendix-King. Sigh. If anyone knows a fix for this please let me know and we'll upload it.
STERN LEGAL WARNING
The photographs included in this package are protected by the copyright of their authors and any further use of them, except to sites that distribute them as FREEWARE, without the written consent of the photographers, is forbidden. The photographers can all be reached through www.airliners.net and are:
Main Panel and Pilot's left and right front view (gorgeous views!): Thomas Klein. With additional material (throttle quadrant) by Mike of AirNikon and (centerpost) Bill Blanchard.
Wing: David Knudson (the wing looks like someone made a half-hearted attempt to burnish the metal - then gave it up as hopeless. I love it!)
1961 In-Flight Cabin Photo: Mel Lawrence. (Love the passengers and flight attendants!)
I wish to thank these nice folks for their generous cooperation and superb photography. Please respect their rights!
INSTALLATION: Unzip the gauges directly into the MAIN FS2002 Gauges folder. When prompted to overwrite say either yes or no - it makes no difference as anything I've altered I've renamed. Then unzip the panel into the DC-4 panel folder of your choice, first making sure that folder is EMPTY.
Alternate method: Unzip them to a temporary directory, then copy or move them into the appropriate folders. Done!
NOTE3: I urge you to utilize Brian Horsey's DC-4 flight dynamics. Great!
RADIOS: Some aircraft are not configured to acept Nav2. I suggest installing this panel, then trying to tune all radios. If there is a problem, do the following: MAKE A BACKUP OF THE AIRCRAFT.CFG FILE (in the MAIN aircraft folder, called "aircraft."
THEN:
1) Copy the text below called [Radios]
2) Go to the aircraft.cfg file in the MAIN aircraft folder (the one called "aircraft.")
3) Scroll down to just below the section called "autopilot" - at the bottom.
4) If there is nothing there called [Radios] paste what you copied (below) underneath the [autopilot] section.
5) If there is a section there named [Radios], carefully delete that section only, then paste this in its place:
This should fit between "autopilot" and "direction indicators."
If this doesn't work, make sure that there is no section called "radios" elsewhere in the aircraft.cfg file and if there is, delete it.
I hope you get a kick out of these photos - they really represent "what it was like" back when engines purred and pilots flew. Some of us are actually old enough to remember such a time . . .
THANK YOU
To the photographers of course, and also to Tom Gibson for allowing me the use of his DC-6 IFR Panel.cfg as a starting point for this panel. Visit Tom's website - California Classics - to get the best propliner info and downloads.
And thanks to you for trying my panel.
MORE STERN LEGAL STUFF
I have thoroughly tested this package in Win98 2nd edition on an AMD Athlon 1200 mghz CPU; Nvidia GEForce III video card with 64 megs of ram; and an AWE 128 Soundblaster sound card. It works fine on my system and should on any reasonably compatible system as well. NOTE: This package has NOT been tested in Windows XP. It will do no harm to your computer, or software, but if you think it has, I accept no liability whatsoever. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Happy flying!
James Underwood, Bloomington, IN USA jcumus@bluemarble.net
4 December, 2002
