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I downloaded a gauge from avsim. It is called a hour meter & what the gauge does is it will record how many hours you fly and store's that information in a data file. So everyday you fly the hours just keep going up higher. So if I fly the 747 all month I can look at how many hours I have flown that month.

The zip file was missing some thing's. The Gauge files were there but in the read me file it did not include the gauge paremeter's that are supposed to go in the "Panel.cfg" file.

The stuff like this:


[WindowXX]
size_mm=300,93
position=2
visible=1
ident=60
sizeable=1
window_size= 0.293, 0.121
window_pos= 0.707, 0.000

gauge00=radiocd4!radiocd, 0, 0, 300

^^^None of that was there^^^

It's an FS98 gauge that is designed to be used in any aircraft so that might explain why there is no panel.cfg for an FS02/04 747 panel.  It may not even work.

The best thing to do would be to get cfgEdit (free) and add it yourself.  In the meantime, try adding this to panel.cfg

Window [00] ...
gaugeXX=gauge_3, 62,72,60

where XX is the next available gauge number.

That should put it in the upper left corner above the icons.  All of my panels are heavily edited so I don't know how this will look in your 747.

If that doesn't work & I am still not able to use the gauge because it is FS98, do you know is there is a gauge like that designed for fs2004?

Cause that is like the coolest gauge I have ever seen & now I find out I might not be able to use it.

I don't use FS04 and I never had a need for such a gauge.  If I did I'd just go back to the libraries here or at AVSim.

I would think it would be easier to create a gauge for FS04 since it already keeps track of that information, unlike 02 and earlier.

[quote]It's an FS98 gauge that is designed to be used in any aircraft so that might explain why there is no panel.cfg for an FS02/04 747 panel.