Where are the gages? I downloaded and installed this airplane.

FSX Cessna C206H Stationair V2.0 This is a North American Registry (N206RX) re-paint of the Cessna C206H Stationair VERSION 2.0 (Complete Aircraft) by Blue Sky Simulations, Roger Bonne & GUIDEE Francois-Denis. VERSION 2.0 has been reworked after reports of a few errors in the files. ALL ERRORS HAVE BEEN CORRECTED! This model has been throughly flight tested and flys like a dream! All textures are rendered in DXT-3 format for crisp texturing without sacrificing frame rates. Originally modeled for FS2004, this rendition of the sturdy aircraft has been modified to work within the FS-X platform. Includes customized panel and sound package by Peter Spanakos. Both an analog and Garmin G1000 glass panel versions have been included. Brian C. Selb 16.8MB

I had trouble with the sound also, but got that working by using the sound files from a Cessna 182.  How do I get a set of gages. I didn't have these kind of problems with installing addons in FS9 as I'm having with FSX. Thanks for any help anyone can give me.

Bob

Many 2004 downloads use gauges from FS9/FS8 and such... and are no longer supported...

those files from ealier downloads that will work are the XML ones...

you will need to alias pannels from the defult planes untill FSX compliant updates are available....

in the pannels.config remove what is there and add this....

[fltsim]
alias=()\panel

Thanks for the help. It's all making sense now. I think I'll just hold off downloading anything till FSX gets it's act together. The few airplanes I have managed to install have been a hassle.  To many files to move around to get the plane in one piece and working. With FS 2004  it seemed to be a lot simpler. Just unzip the file and drag and drop the right folder into the airplane folder. Oh well things will get better.  Thanks again. Other than this Fsx seems to be running ok on my computer. Frame rates around 15 to 20 with settings from medium high to high. Not bad if you blink a lot.  Here are my specs for comparison.  I  also have the Real Flight model airplane sim "RealFlight G3" that runs real well with good frame rates.  Hope FSX will improve it this area.

System:  Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
Processor:  AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+,  MMX,  3DNow (2 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory:  2046MB RAM
DX Version:  DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Video Card:  NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS
     MFR:  NVIDIA
     Version:  6.14.0010.9131 (English)
     Date:  6/1/2006 14:22:00, 4529408 bytes
CD-ROM (?:\) DVDRW IDE 16X (?)
CD-ROM (?:\) LITE-ON DVDRW SHW-160H6S (?)
CD-ROM (?:\) PHILIPS DVD8421 (?)
Installed in: C:\Program Files\RealFlightG3
Free Disk Space (C:\): 188053 mb free
Launcher Version: 1.00.175
RealFlight G3: 3.50.033

Bob

I downloaded the acft. from Hagar's link to the acft. Assuming this is the right one, which I did,  it works just fine if installed correctly.

Sound worked fine and gauges worked fine.

Here is how I installed manually, which you should always do. Author states to "Navigate to blah blah blah". NO!

Navigate through his folders until you come to TWO folders: Gauges and SimObjects.  In the "Gauges" folder you find two gauges, c206.gau and mp.gau. Put both of these gauges into your FSX-Gauges Folder.

Now go back to the "SimObjects" folder of the download. In there you find an "Airplanes" folder, in there you find two folders, "C_206 Stationair N206RX" folder AND "Sound" folder.

Take the "C_206 Stationair N206RX" folder and place this one in your FSX/SimObjects/Airplanes folder.

Go back to the "Sound" folder of the download. In this folder you see a "C182-RG" folder. <<<<Place THIS folder in your FSX/Sound folder.

Now when you fire up FSX, in acft. selection, select "Cessna". Select either of your two C 206 Stationair acft., when you do, it will give you a message about "Publisher could not be verified". Hit the "Run" tab, then hit "Yes". This adds the two gauges you installed for this acft. to a "Trusted" section in your fsx.cfg file. After that initial set up of those gauges, you won't get that warning again if you select this acft.

Enjoy.......and nice acft. too!

Bob70 wrote on Dec 31^st, 2006 at 2:34pm:

To be honest I would would forget it Bob. Most of the gauges were missing when I tried it with none at all in the DVC. I put that down to the fact that I'm using the Demo which doesn't have a full set of default gauges. If my old mate Fireman says it works for him I have to believe it. I can only assume the missing gauges are FSX defaults that I don't have.

Fireman said: Quote:

I would have to disagree with that. For the aliased sound to work the SOUND folder you mention should be installed to FSX\SimObjects\airplanes with the C182-RG folder inside it.
This is copied straight from Sound.cfg:

[fltsim]
alias=SOUND\C182-RG

It would be much easier to paste the Sound files into the Stationair Sound folder & done with.

_526th_Fireman wrote on Dec 31^st, 2006 at 3:23pm:

Sorry to be pedantic but I still say that SOUND folder should be installed to FSX\SimObjects\airplanes. Anyway, that's besides the point.

Quote:

You would know more about me than me that as I'm still using the Demo which has a very limited set of gauges. Bob didn't say which version of FSX he has. If you remember this caused problems with some default gauges not being included with FS2002 Standard Edition.

There's something strange about this aircraft. I checked the panel out in the trial version of FS Panel Studio & the DVC works as advertised. This is what I get in FSX. Complete blank.


I'm not convinced it's worth bothering with.

I think we can assume the majority of users here have the full version of FSX. A demo is just that - a demo - by definition incomplete.

I would suggest to anyone with the demo version - shell out & get the complete thing. There is no point in posting questions about the demo - it's not FSX - just a mere taster.

Edit:

Houston we have a problem.

(delux version of course - & FSX D lacking several of the FS9 gauges pointed to in the panel.cfg)



I see the guy has (just as you guys have said) included FS9 gauges into the VCockpit element in the panel.cfg - in other words he has not included gauges.

I shall fix this somehow. We don't do incomplete files here at the 'V' 

(We probably need to make a file with some essential FS9 gauges to add to the Gauges folder in FSX - so people won't have thi s problem in future)

_526th_Fireman wrote on Dec 31^st, 2006 at 3:23pm:

No, it directs it to the FSX\SimObjects\airplanes\SOUND folder. Sorry Fireman but this file is configured to extract direct to FSX. While I wouldn't advise this, please note that the SOUND folder is in the Airplanes directory in the download alongside the C_206 Stationair N206RX folder. This means it should be pasted into the SimObjects\airplanes directory in FSX. That's how aliasing works. I've configured enough files to know what I'm talking about.

The complete sound package is in the SOUND\C182-RG subfolder complete with its Sound.cfg. It would be simplicity itself to select all the files in that folder & paste them into the Stationair Sound folder thus avoiding further arguments.