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Flaps guage (Read 264 times)

Sep 19^th, 2006 at 3:00pm

Jon H Offline
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Any ideas where I can get a flaps guage similar to the one in the default King Air, but with five positions, or if it is possible to modify that guage to give it two extra positions?

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Reply #1 - Sep 19^th, 2006 at 7:50pm

jimcooper1 Ex Member

The Nimrod from Simshed (www.simshed.co.uk) has a 5 position flap handle. You could download that then copy the FlapSelector gauge from the panel.cfg file to your panel.cfg file

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Jim

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Reply #2 - Sep 20^th, 2006 at 12:06pm

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You'll need to modify the Aircraft.cfg too. or you'll still have 3 stage flaps.

for example, taken from the default C172

To begin with you have this ,with 4 positions:

[flaps.0] //Trailing Edge Flaps
type = 1 // 1 - tail, 2 - lead
span-outboard = 0.5    // 0.0 .. 1.0
extending-time = 7 // seconds
flaps-position.0 = 0 // degrees
flaps-position.1 = 12.7    // degrees
flaps-position.2 = 25.3    // degrees
flaps-position.3 = 38       // degrees
damaging-speed = 120    // KIAS
blowout-speed = 150    // KIAS
lift_scalar = 1.0
drag_scalar = 1.0
pitch_scalar= 1.0
system_type = 0       //0=Electric, 1=Hydraulic, 2=Pneumatic, 3=Manual, 4=None

you would need to add 1 more flaps-positions

to end up with this, or similar:

[flaps.0] //Trailing Edge Flaps
type = 1 // 1 - tail, 2 - lead
span-outboard = 0.5    // 0.0 .. 1.0
extending-time = 7 // seconds
flaps-position.0 = 0 // degrees
flaps-position.1 = 9    // degrees
flaps-position.2 = 19    // degrees
flaps-position.3 = 28       // degrees
flaps-position.4 = 38    // degrees
damaging-speed = 120    // KIAS
blowout-speed = 150    // KIAS
lift_scalar = 1.0
drag_scalar = 1.0
pitch_scalar= 1.0
system_type = 0       //0=Electric, 1=Hydraulic, 2=Pneumatic, 3=Manual, 4=None

Remember that the Positions start at .0 so to have 5 posiotions, including UP, you need .0,1,2,3 and 4

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Reply #3 - Sep 20^th, 2006 at 5:48pm

Jon H Offline
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Thanks for your replies.
I've found that ahe default Learjet flaps gauge can be used with any number of flap positions - GREAT!

In the end I modified the 2D panel bitmap so that it looks like I have the King Air gauge.

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Reply #4 - Sep 20^th, 2006 at 6:01pm

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Any gauge should be usable with any number of flap setting I THINK! Its just that it might look odd with mismatched images and actual settings ???

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Reply #5 - Sep 21^st, 2006 at 5:32pm

Jon H Offline
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That's true, but the gauge and the flaps positions will not match up. eg, the flaps go to position 3, but the guage won't change from position 2 until you set position 4. This can make it difficult to see what position the flaps are at. (I hope this doesn't confuse...)

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