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May 8^th, 2007 at 4:30am

lazydave Offline
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Hi there,

I have had FS9 for a week or so now after having FS2002 for the past 4 years, and I am discovering alot of new things, mainly thanks to this forum.

Whilst in the cockpit view, you can press the default button 'W' allowing you to change between the 3 possible views (which are panel, row of gauges at the bottom and no panel or gauges).

My problem is that when I change the view in some aircraft to the second view with the gauges displayed along the bottom, I will get two large digital gauge screens (from the 777 cockpit) and these will take up alot of the screen when compared to the 5 or 6 small gauges along the bottom.

Is it possible to edit which gauges are displayed in this view mode or will I have to find a panel from somewhere which has the standard 5 or 6 smaller gauges?

Im new here, and did try afew searches however I was unable to come up with anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Shocked

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Reply #1 - May 8^th, 2007 at 8:59am

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FS panels are highly editable, including the 'minipanels'.

The key is the panel.cfg file, in the panel folder of each aircraft.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\Aircraft\C208\panel

Scroll down in the panel.cfg untill you find the paragraph with the ident 'minipanel'. This is the minipanel for the C208:

[Window06]
position=7
size_mm=587,95
child_3d=1
background_color=0,0,0
ident=MINIPANEL

gauge00=Cessna208!Airspeed, 0, 0
gauge01=Cessna208!Turn-Bank, 100, 0
gauge02=Cessna208!Attitude, 200, 2
gauge03=Cessna208!Horizontal-Indicator, 299, 2
gauge04=Cessna208!Altimeter, 398, 2
gauge05=Cessna208!Vertical-Speed, 495, 2

These six gauges are the 6 small dials you seen in the minipanel view.

This is the minipanel paragraph from the B777 .cfg file.

[Window05]
position=7
size_mm=398,224
child_3d=1
background_color=0,0,0
ident=MINIPANEL

gauge00=Boeing777-300!PFD,0,0
gauge01=Boeing777-300!MFD,201,1

These two gauges are the large MFDs you see int he B777 minipanel.

You can very easily copy and paste the Caravan minipanel into the B777 .cfg file, and just see the six small dials normally visible in the C208 minipanel. Before you go altering stuff, make sure you make copies of the original files- you can name them something like paneloriginal.cfg- then you can tamper with the panel.cfg file to your heart's content, swapping out whatever gauges from any aircraft you want.

Or if you like, you can edit where in the panel the MFDs show up. The 0,0 and 201,1 are X,Y position assignments by pixel. With a little bit of experimenting, you can move the MFDs to the top of the minipanel, to leave the runway view on final unobstructed (or that sort of thing).

To move them apart, try setting
size_mm=1024,224
Then make the position for one 0,0 and for the other 0,825. This positioning may not be perfect, but it should move the MFDs out to the lower corners of the screen.

Make sense? Have fun!

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Reply #2 - May 8^th, 2007 at 9:03am

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Dave, welcome to SimV

As your ?? concerns panels it may get moved to Scenery & Panel Design.

The small panel is called a 'mini panel' and all aircaft can use 1 of 2 sources to 'draw' it:

1) The aircraft can have it's own mini panel section in it's 'panel.cfg' file. This is the case with the 777.

2) If the aircraft does not have its own mini panel the sim will use a generic mini panel from the '....\aircraft\default\panel\panel.cfg' file.

So you have a couple of options:

1)Remove the mini panel from the 777's 'panel.cfg' file and a generic one will be used. This may not be the best option as you'll lose your EICAS.

2)Edit the 777's panel.cfg-mini panel section to resize/move the gauges to improve your view. If you've edited panels in FS2002 you shouldn't have any problems in in FS2004. If you do have problems, just ask.

Dave

**Back up any files before editing**

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Reply #3 - May 8^th, 2007 at 5:01pm

lazydave Offline
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Hey guys, your posts helped alot!

I'm quite unfamiliar with this site and did not realise that there was a forum dedicated to panels etc etc. My bad.

I appreciate the time you have given me. I shall go and try editing the panels now.

Thanks for your time

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Reply #4 - May 8^th, 2007 at 9:21pm

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lazydave wrote on May 8^th, 2007 at 5:01pm:

I'm quite unfamiliar with this site and did not realise that there was a forum dedicated to panels etc etc. My bad.

lazydave,

Hey... no problem. It is just that it likely will get read by "the right people" in this forum section.

Welcome to SimV.

best,

............john

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