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Re: oil pressure problem (Read 579 times)
Dec 26th, 2010 at 3:30pm

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If you will provide a link to the aircraft in question - presuming it is freeware - then one of us can take a look and see if we have the same issue (and possibly a solution).

 

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Reply #1 - Dec 26th, 2010 at 4:50pm

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flipside wrote on Dec 26th, 2010 at 4:48pm:
It is a DeHavilland C7 Caribou for Bluestream Airlines. As far as I know it is available either here or at AVSIM. It is freeware. By the way it is an aftermarket panel I am using. If you can send me your email address I can send you pictures. I do not know how to provide a link.


Just provide the actual name of the file(s) you downloaded.

I should be able to search for them that way.
 

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Reply #2 - Dec 26th, 2010 at 6:44pm

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flipside wrote on Dec 26th, 2010 at 5:28pm:
Aircraft:
AVSIM  Bluestream_Airlines_Dehavilland_Caribou.zip

Panel:
Surclaro trpcesgl.zip


The aircraft is not available at Avsim now - but found both items at SurClaro.

I do see the oil warning lights on all the time but never did find any oil pressure gauges - just oil temperature gauges.

The panel.cfg indicates a great many of the default KingAir gauges are being used and unfortunately they are in a gau file which cannot be opened and edited as an xml based group of gauges might.

I am no gauge expert so unless someone else has a better idea, I would suggest finding a different panel to use.

Sorry I could not offer a solution.

 

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Reply #3 - Dec 26th, 2010 at 9:10pm

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flipside wrote on Dec 26th, 2010 at 8:51pm:
The oil pressure gauge is on the right side of the oil temperature gauge. Maybe I can sub a different gauge in it's place.


Yes, I see it now - must be getting blind in my old age.

I also used a utility I have to look inside the Kingair.gau file for bitmaps and sure enough, the lit and unlit low oil pressure bmps are in there.  I have no idea what triggers them though.

Good luck on finding a suitable replacement.
 

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Reply #4 - Dec 27th, 2010 at 6:31am

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I did a little further experimentation and find that you can easily remove the "always on" display of the warning lights by simply commenting out the gauges in question.

Example:

//gauge51=KingAir!Warning_Annunciator, 740,278
gauge52=KingAir!Caution_Annunciator, 882,278
gauge53=KingAir!Master_Caution, 905,360,30,38
//gauge54=KingAir!Master_Warning, 1225,362,30,38
gauge55=Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio Audio, 970,315,225,28

The first one is the oil pressure warning lights and the other is the Master caution light which is always on also.

This for the panel trpcesgl.zip we have been playing with.

Hope that helps.
 

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