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I have an aircraft that does not display the minipanel.

How do I alter something to make it visible?

best,

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

Hi JB,

I am assuming you have already installed the Mini Panel in your FS9/ACFT/default/panels folder. Back up original of course!  ;)

If you have, then you can add the Mini Panel to any acft. you have by adding this to your panel.cfg

For Jets:

Add these two entries in their appropriate place:

Window05=Mini Panel    Goes in [Window Titles]

Scroll down and add this:

[Window05]
Background_color=0,0,0
size_mm=640,143
window_size_ratio=1.00  
position=7
visible=1
ident=MINIPANEL
window_size= 1.000, 0.350
window_pos= 0.000, 0.650

gauge00=Boeing777-300!Autopilot,  159,78,323,33
gauge01=Boeing777-300!Audio,  394,96,50,14
gauge02=Boeing777-300!Comm 1,  153,110,90,33
gauge03=Boeing777-300!Nav 1,  236,110,90,33
gauge04=Boeing777-300!Nav 2,  318,110,90,33
gauge05=Boeing777-300!ADF,  402,110,81,33
gauge06=Boeing777-300!PFD,  40,36,120,135
gauge07=Boeing777-300!MFD,  481,43,100,112
gauge08=737-400!Flaps,  586,100,45,40
gauge09=Mooney_Bravo!Gear Light,  12,65,18,9
gauge10=Mooney_Bravo!Gear Lever,  12,85,18,48
gauge11=Boeing777-300!Nose_Light_Switch,  598,65,20,28
gauge12=Boeing777-300!Taxi_Light_Switch,  618,65,16,28
gauge13=Lear_45!Pitch Trim,  582,65,15,28
gauge14=SimIcons!Map Icon,  583, 52 ,12,11
gauge15=SimIcons!GPS Icon,  597,52,12,11
gauge16=SimIcons!ECU Icon,  611,52,12,11
gauge17=Mooney_Bravo!Speed Brake,  8,45,26,16
gauge18=RwyInfo!V1,  159,63,41,14
gauge19=Ymu_WindSpeed!WindSpeed,  407,26,74,50

NOTE!! Number yours according to where you put them. Mine happened to be 5, yours could be different.

For Props there is a different entry.

In the [Window Titles] add:

WindowXX=Mini Panel   **Number correctly.

Then in the list of Windows area, make this entry at the bottom:

[WindowXX]   <<<<<position=7
size_mm=631,100
child_3d=1
background_color=0,0,0
ident=MINIPANEL

gauge00=Cessna!Airspeed,               0, 1
gauge01=Cessna!Turn_Indicator,       102, 0
gauge02=Cessna!Attitude,             207, 0
gauge03=Cessna!Heading_Indicator,    312, 0
gauge04=Cessna!Altimeter,            417, 0
gauge05=Cessna!Vertical_Speed,       531, 0

Hope this helps.

Fireman,

Thanks for the fast and thorough reply.

I think I am misunderstanding the term "mini-panel" in this case.

I am talking about the defualt little display that comes with the default aircraft that shows the primary flight instruments in the lower part of the screen and that is all .... superimposed over the "out the windscreen" view.

So apparently there must nbe something ELSE called the "mini-panel" available.  Which I might look into too.... but do you have an answer for the OTHER issue for me?

best,

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

Have you modified or deleted aircraft/default/panel/panel.cfg?  That's where the minipanel information is.

If not there must be a bug in aircraft.cfg that isn't telling the sim what type of ac it it is.

i am having the same problem the mini panel is listed in the panel.cfg. i copied it exactly out of the default C182 but when i press the W key the gauges don't display just a fullscreen window. It works fine in the C182. Also what does the line "child_3d=1" stand for?