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hi i need help with my afterburner on my f-16 viper.
see i got the update for the f-16 viper but when i put the throttle up no afterburner works. but when you turn on all the lights the afterburner turns on and i dont like it that way because if you have your throttle at min and your lights on you have a afterburner and it shouldnt be like that you should be able to max your throttle with an afterburner coming on and off.
so i need to change something in my aircraft.cfg.

it tells you to replace the old light config with the new ones inside your aircraft.cfg folder so i done that but it's the same problem.

plz help it is really buggin me.

thnx

Did you install the DSB Typhoon? The Viper uses not only the AB effects from it, but it's XML gauges too.

no i didnt install the DSB typhoon afterburner but it was the f-16 thunderbirds update it installs afterburner, wing vapour and engine exhaust smoke.

they all work but only if i turn on the lights and i dont want that to happen.
what i do want is the have the afterburner working only when i push the throttle up to max.

That might be the problem. The panel for the Viper is set up to use the XML gauges from the Typhoon, for automatic afterburner operation. (I don't think that was mantioned in the any of the read-me's) Try downloading the Typhoon again, and drop the gauges from the download, into your sim's gauges folder. Remember, XML gauges MUST be in thier own folder INSIDE the sim's gauges folder in order to work. (IE, inside the Typhoon download's gauges folder , are two more folders called "dsbxml" and "efa_gauges". These whole folders need to be moved to your sim's gauges folder.)

Give that a try and see if it works.

ok thnx m8 ill try it

thnx

right i got the typhoon here so now do i have 2 install the typhoon to the game or not for the gauges to work?

Shouldn't need the whole aricraft installed, just the gauges, since you're afterburner effects from a different download. (In fact, the folders I mentioned above SHOULD be the only gauges you need .)

right ok ill try it.

there is another thing aswell when i go 2 drop the XML gauges in the fs9 gauges folder what shall i put the XML gaues into and call it for them 2 be apart of the fs9 gauges folder.

The XML gauges are already in the folders they need to be in. Just move those folders from the download's gauges folder, to the sim's gauges folder.

i see now ill try it.

right ive done that now do i need to take out the old afterburner from the thunderbirds update for the other gauges to work.

i tried my viper on my fs9 but it's still the same.

Nope. Just as long as the effects that you want to use, are described in the lights scetion of the aicraft.cfg. What happens is the XML gauge, reads the engine's N1 rpm, and turns certain light type on or off, depending on that reading.

see im sorta new to this game so i dont no what u mean by N1 rpm and i dont no were to look for it.