Hi, this is my first time posting

I downloaded the F-16 Viper on page 2 of the FS2004 military downloads

Now I have had FS2000 since it came out and so I know how to install aircraft

I download the plane and panel

I got the plane to work, but it had no 2D panel (the screen was black) ???

so I installed the panel reccomened for the plane

this time more gauges but still my screen was black ???

could you please help my fix this problem

The whole screen is black apart from 3 gauges which show up on the screen thats all

Budd, is the F-16 your talking about the F-16 Viper by Kirk Olsson?  If so, you need to be careful when installing the panel. It says you need to use the panel.cfg file that comes with the F-16, not the panel.cfg from the panel download.  When installing the panel, install everything but the panel.cfg file.  

I made the same mistake the first time too and it caused these problems.

I hope that made sense (i know it was pretty jumbled).  

OK, I know its a little confusing (so try and bare with me  ).  When you first downloaded the F-16, inside its panel folder was a file called "panel.cfg."  That was the only file inside the panel folder.  When you downloaded the panel, there was all the standard things inside of it (the panel came with it's own panel.cfg).  When you install a panel, its normal to use all the files that came with it.  In this case, you don't do that.  The readme file that came with the F-16 says to use Eric Marciano's panel but NOT to use the panel.cfg with it-use the panel.cfg that came in the F-16.  When you installed the panel, you probably copied all of the panel files into the plane and overwrited the panel.cfg that you need.

What you need to do is get the original F-16 zip file you downloaded (hopefully you didn't delete it, if so you need to redownload it).  Simply copy the panel.cfg from the F-16's zip file.  Put it in the plane's panel folder and overwrite.  That should fix the problem.

Once again, I know thats a little hard to follow.  If you still find it hard to follow, let me know and I'll figure something else.  

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Thanks.   

Well, how about this-since its somewhat hard to explain.  If you could give me your e-mail address I'll send you the file you need.  I've noticed that your e-mail is hidden-so if you don't want to show it on the main board you can just e-mail me or PM me your address.

If you decided to e-mail me (so I can reply you the file), my e-mail is: RichieB31619@yahoo.com.

Good, I'm glad it worked.  Enjoy, thats one of the best planes out there.