*** FS2000/FS2002 PANEL FOR STINSON RELIANT PLANES ***

After playing with Paul Clawson's excellent FS2000 SR-10 Reliant, I felt the urge to do a "quick" panel myself. So I grabbed a high-quality panel photo from Russell Williams' magnificent Vintage Aircraft Site (www.russellw.com) and went to business.
In order not to spoil the feeling and ambiance of the cockpit, I kept the number of gauges to a bare minimum, keeping away from magneto knobs, engine controls etc. that either are not on the photograph or were not to my liking. You don't need to fly a plane on gauges only, do you?
In fact quite some CFS gauges turned out to have this blueish background which suited the panel very nice. Many gauges are already default in FS2000/FS2002, therefore reducing the size of this package.

Installation.
Put all gauges (*.gau) into your FS200# GAUGES subdirectory. The panel.cfg file and the stinson_v77_panel_john_johnson.bmp should be placed into your Stinson's PANEL subdirectory (FS200#\AIRCRAFT\Stinsonwhatever\PANEL).

Since Stinsons are taildraggers, it's recommended to apply a few Shift-Enter strokes in order to raise the horizon before takeoff.

Credits.
Having already mentioned Paul Clawson and Russell Williams respectively, I also would like to thank Ernie Kennedy for his autopilot.

Hope you like this panel.


Charlie Rousseau
Maastricht, Netherlands
May 29, 2002
carolus@xs4all.nl