I just downloaded and installed the F-15J panel from here http://www.simviation.com/fs2002panels21.htm, and it has a problem.  If you look carefully at the screenshot you can see it immediately.  The master caution light is on (yellow light in the lower left corner).

After installing the panel I clicked on the light and the annunciator shows low oil pressure.  I pasted it into the Learjet and the problem persists so I don't think it's the aircraft.

Then I replaced what seems to be a superfluous fuel quantity gauge (left side) with the Bell 206 oil pressure gauge.  I don't know why the Bell gauge has 2 gauges but at least one of them works, and the panel already uses a lot of Bell gauges.

Now half of the gauge is showing realistic oil pressure and the other half is showing zero.  The master caution light is still on but when I click on it the annunciator is dark - the *&%#! caution light just won't go off.

Here are the relevant lines of the cfg file:

gauge10=BELL_206B!Master Caution,          50,557, 15, 15
//gauge11=BELL_206B!Fuel Quantity,          193,439, 51, 51     <--- The line I replaced
gauge11=Bell_206B!Engine Oil,             193,438, 51, 51 ...

[Window03]
file=Annunciator.bmp
size_mm=128
window_size_ratio=0.2
position=3
visible=0
ident=Annunciator_Panel
gauge00=Lear_45!Annunciator, 0, 0

Possible solutions I have considered are:

1. I wrote to the author.
2. Use a different oil pressure gauge.  I don't know why the Bell gauge has 2 measurements if it only has one engine.  But there's a limited amount of space so I'd have to find a gauge that can show both engines on one gauge.

In case you haven't guessed, I'm not a panel designer.  About all I can do is tweak them a little.

Quote:


The caution light is unlikely to be calling data from the gauges themselves.

It's almost certainly looking at oil pressure data supplied by the sim itself.

If it remains on when you increase the engine revs (which increases the oil pressure obviously) then it isn't a fault with the level at which the light has been set to come on. It would almost certainly be down to the fact that it's designed for a multi-engine aircraft and consequently getting a reading of 0 from any engines it addresses from 2 upwards.

Mail me Jim, give me an idea of what you want the gauge to look like visually and I'll do you one.

Finally got it.  Swapping the caution light worked and I managed to squeeze the Kingair oil gauges in.  You can see the light is out (bottom left next to the landing gear lever) and the oil gauges fit tolerably abopve the ammeter.