FS2004 - photoreal Mainpanel (2D-panel) for Piper Cherokee 140 from Ole Egholm (pa2814oe.zip)
specially made and optically adapded to the virtual cockpit and only usable
for this aircraft. Additionally Night-Lighting of the virtual cockpit.


At first my thanks to Ole Egholm for this fine modelled aircraft , that means the plane and especially
the virtual cockpit. With above mentionned zip-file the cherokee comes without 2D-panel and is
-of course - fully flyable, but I found that the readout of the radios is a little bit difficult and therefore
made this addition taking into consideration, that such a fine virtual cockpit should have an optically
adapded mainpanel. For this I made a composed bitmap.

Some further changes were made:

a) Autopilot added (in place of gps) for longer flights

b) New Gyro with Heading-Select in both mainpanel and VC

c) Nightlighting of both panels for "VFR at night"


Installation: First install the aircraft a n d the additional Radio-gauges (gbbkscrs.zip) as described
by Ole. Then

unzip panel.zip into the panel-folder of this aircraft and overwrite panel.cfg when prompted

unzip gauges.zip into FS9/gauges-folder


Nightlighting of the virtual cockpit:

Exchange in aircraft.cfg the corresponding entry to read as follows:


[LIGHTS]
light.0=3, -0.30, -16.5, -1.0, fx_navred
light.1=3, -0.30, 16.5, -1.0, fx_navgre
light.2=3, -17.6, 0.00, 4.2, fx_navwhi
light.3=1, -15.5, 0.00, 4.75, fx_beacon
light.4=4, -4.20, 0.00, 2.15, fx_vclight
light.5=6, 6.30, 0.00, -1.8, fx_landing
light.6=4, -0.80, 0.00, 1.60, fx_vclight


Radio-Settings

in aircraft.cfg should read as follows:

[Radios]
// Radio Type=availiable, standby frequency, has glide slope
Audio.1=1
Com.1=1, 1
Com.2=0,
Nav.1=1, 1, 1
Nav.2=0,
Adf.1=1
Transponder.1=1
Marker.1=1

That was all. If you install this aircraft first time, you need to make [fltsim.1] to [fltsim.0] in aircraft.cfg
or the pane will not show up in FS 9.

What is from me: Only the bitmaps and the panel-arrangement

Credit therefore goes to Ole Engholm and all gauge designers.

Good success in mounting all together. The aircaft is your efforts worth !


Horst Paetzold


horstcloudflyer@aol.com