Not enough of a programmer to do this myself, so could someone tell me if these exist somewhere and if not, if possible to create?

1) API(s) for power lines...
Would be nice to be able to string powerlines between high voltage towers. The API might be used with FSSC, for example, to place an "end" at or near each tower. It is expected that a scenery designer would need to use slew in order to find the right altitudes for the line ends, and even if it was difficult or impossible to mate them exactly, that would be okay. The line(s) would "sag" automatically as a function of the distance of the line segment. Be nice if optional parameters (or separate apis) existed for 1, 2 or three lines vertically, if the lines had a few visibility bulbs or not, and an option to illuminate those bulbs. There are some airports around that could benefit, add a new dimension of realism especially if impact caused a crash. I knew a rancher in NM (ex-WWII instructor) who would routinely fly his 182 under the wires checking his windmills but I digress...

2) "Camera" gauge...
Probably could do this with FSUIPC but better if without, for simplicity of installation. A simple button or two, would "take a photo" (screenshot) out front, same view as if you pressed SHIFT-1 to hide the 2-D panel. Would simulate having a "camera" on the nose, or integrated to leading edge of a wing for single props. Fancy options: a counter showing how many "exposures" remained (if possible to engineer to take multiple shots), maybe a status light if only one possible with the option to "clear" and reshoot, and a user-selectable key or joystick button assignment (think of the combat photos possible!) Of course "gun cameras" (video recording coincident with firing machine guns) would be the ultimate but again I digress... "Photos" would be placed as bmps or jpgs in a user defined, or program mandated, folder. If this process would cause the display to hiccup, maybe a separate "develop" button on the gauge could be used to copy the clipboard photo(s) to disk after landing so as to preserve the continuity of the flight. I know it is easy to do a screenshot as is in FS, but it seems to me that pausing the sim and pressing PrtScr (timing the absence of the blinking Paused status line) takes the fun and realism out, and of course you are restricted to just one shot. Then you have to exit the sim long enough to paste this into an editor in order to save. Makes it a computer task, not a flight sim feature.

Any thoughts?

Gary