Getting rid of a GPS Surround Panel in FS

[CWFlightsim]

Glad to help, the xml format is very powerful, I have made dedicated annunciator radio and ap panels also taken the surround off and repainted alot of the primary flight gauges so they sit behind a proper instrument panel if any one wants the files I can upload it all.

[Bob Reed]

I think uploading them would be a great idea!!

[Prof Bill]

I also believe that this would be an excellent and much appreciated idea!

Bill.

[CWFlightsim]

Gidday all,here are the XML files I have made for my cockpit, they are designed to be used on a screen behind a real panel. free for all to use, modify, etc, dont hold me responsible for any damage, not to be used in real aircraft, etc, blah, blah.
Do the usual panel cfg editing. Let me know how it all goes!
I do have all the PF instruments repainted without bezels but having a bit of trouble getting them off my FS computer.

CW

[Prof Bill]

Many thanks CW for the file.
I shall install it during the next few days!

Bill.

[Prof Bill]

Hi CW,

I wonder if you have worked with any of the instrument surround panels in FSX?

I am moving over to FSX running on a Q6600 system (taking advantage of multi processor support in SP1) and thought it might be a good idea to ask you about the panel software before I did anything with the LCD based instruments.

Incidently using RAID0 16meg cache disks, Corsair matched memory 2Gigs I am able to generate sustained frame rates of 28-30 Frames/Sec with all sliders at max. The graphics card and the processors are "load balanced" and took a while to tune but well worth the effort!

This "load balancing" excercise seems to be the key to performance!
I am delighted with the FSX performance results!!!

Bill.

[Kennair]

Hey Bill and CW, I wonder if you would post some photos of your panel setup. I am keen to do something similar by making a hardware surround for my GPS (RealityXP) and operate it with buttons and encoders to replace the radio stack in the PC12. Bill you said you'd done this, so I wonder if you'd provide more details.

Regards,

Ken.

[Deesystems]

Ive added CWFlightsim's files in this thread to the download section.

Dee

[Prof Bill]

Hi Dee,

Many thanks for that!!
Ken I am away for a few weeks holiday (Orient Express) and will contact you on return.

My advice at the moment would be to consider something other than Reality XP if you intend using FSX. Their products are really excellent and work superbly on FS2004 but there is a problem getting a statement from them as to when they will support their instruments in an FSX enviornment.
Like everybody else we all hope they will support FSX as it would be a great loss to FSX Flight Simulation if this were not so!!

Flightdeck Technology (see this site) give excellent support for the MS Garmin 530 and their rotary encoder implementation is very professional. I am delighted with their product and if you want to save time and effort think seriously about using them!
Their boards and technology would be ideal for an implementation of the Garmin 1000.

Bill.

[Kennair]

Great thanks Bill. I've looked at the FDT site before but not with this in mind. I'll study it again. I am using Open Cockpits hardware and they do a reasonanbly priced encoder themselves, so I might look at them also. Also need to get some small push buttons to suit.

Ken.