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John,

I'm doodling at work trying to come up with a working/workable cockpit design.  I am basing things on the Cessna 172 as I believe that this has all of the guages that you need for any type of A/C and is the best starting point for a modular design.

My question is; how many guages can be displayed on one monitor?

The Cessna needs :

ASI
Art. Hor.
Altimeter
VOR1
Turn and Bank
Compass
VSI
ADF
Fuel Gauge

For nine "Dials".  To be "readable" I have the feeling that I will need more than monitor.

If this is the case how can real gauges be hard wired in to work?

Will

As many gauges as you like will fit on one monitor. But I think you will like to see them quite big?

For making a C172 I would definetely choose out of 3 possibilities.

1
Buy them from simkits and make them as real hardware.
http://www.simkits.com/

2
Use 2 monitors and run the project magenta GAIFR software. Although this sw is in fact for a twin
http://www.projectmagenta.com/

3
You could design your own panel.cfg file and choose the gauges you like. There are panel design programmes fot that.

ANyway use the complete monitor for your panels.

regards


http://home.wanadoo.nl/norbert.bosch

Thanks for the help and links, they're great!

Norbert,

Welcome to SimV and the "homebuild" forum.

We are honored to have someone with your experience in simpit building frequenting this forum.  Thanks for the links.

best,

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