Flaps guage

[Jon H]

Any ideas where I can get a flaps guage similar to the one in the default King Air, but with five positions, or if it is possible to modify that guage to give it two extra positions?

[jimcooper1]

The Nimrod from Simshed (www.simshed.co.uk) has a 5 position flap handle. You could download that then copy the FlapSelector gauge from the panel.cfg file to your panel.cfg file


Regards

Jim

[igorski]

You'll need to modify the Aircraft.cfg too. or you'll still have 3 stage flaps.

for example, taken from the default C172

To begin with you have this ,with 4 positions:

[flaps.0]       //Trailing Edge Flaps
type             = 1                                    // 1 - tail, 2 - lead
span-outboard    = 0.5                                  // 0.0 .. 1.0
extending-time   = 7                                    // seconds
flaps-position.0 = 0                                    // degrees
flaps-position.1 = 12.7                                 // degrees
flaps-position.2 = 25.3                                 // degrees
flaps-position.3 = 38                                   // degrees
damaging-speed   = 120                                  // KIAS
blowout-speed    = 150                                  // KIAS
lift_scalar = 1.0                                      
drag_scalar = 1.0
pitch_scalar= 1.0
system_type = 0                                         //0=Electric, 1=Hydraulic, 2=Pneumatic, 3=Manual, 4=None


you would need to add 1 more flaps-positions

to end up with this, or similar:

[flaps.0]       //Trailing Edge Flaps
type             = 1                                    // 1 - tail, 2 - lead
span-outboard    = 0.5                                  // 0.0 .. 1.0
extending-time   = 7                                    // seconds
flaps-position.0 = 0                                     // degrees
flaps-position.1 = 9                                  // degrees
flaps-position.2 = 19                                  // degrees
flaps-position.3 = 28                                   // degrees
flaps-position.4 = 38                                  // degrees
damaging-speed   = 120                                  // KIAS
blowout-speed    = 150                                  // KIAS
lift_scalar = 1.0                                      
drag_scalar = 1.0
pitch_scalar= 1.0
system_type = 0                                         //0=Electric, 1=Hydraulic, 2=Pneumatic, 3=Manual, 4=None


Remember that the Positions start at .0 so to have 5 posiotions, including UP, you need .0,1,2,3 and 4

[Jon H]

Thanks for your replies.
I've found that ahe default Learjet flaps gauge can be used with any number of flap positions - GREAT!

In the end I modified the 2D panel bitmap so that it looks like I have the King Air gauge.

[igorski]

Any gauge should be usable with any number of flap setting I THINK! Its just that it might look odd with mismatched images and actual settings  ???

[Jon H]

That's true, but the gauge and the flaps positions will not match up.         eg, the flaps go to position 3, but the guage won't change from position 2 until you set position 4. This can make it difficult to see what position the flaps are at. (I hope this doesn't confuse...)