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When 'W' is clicked, the view is improved with just the row of default instruments.

It should be possible to swap the gauges. Depends which aircraft you want it for. They vary by type. The Panel.cfg for the mini-panels is in a folder named 'default' in the FS9\Aircraft folder.

[quote]When 'W' is clicked, the view is improved with just the row of default instruments.

Panels in 3rd party aircraft don't usually have MINIPANEL entries. They use the default mini-panels according to type. As an experiment I tried the Cessna 140 I installed recently.

This is the normal mini-panel view.


The same aircraft after a quick edit to the default Panel.cfg.


This is the edit;

[MiniPanel00]
position=7
size_mm=600,100
window_size=0.9,0.20
child_3d=1
background_color=0,0,0
ident=MINIPANEL

gauge00=MiniPanel!Airspeed,                          0, 0, 100, 100
gauge01=MiniPanel!Turn Coordinator,            100, 0, 100, 100
gauge02=MiniPanel!Attitude,                        200, 0, 100, 100
gauge03=MiniPanel!Heading Indicator,      300, 0, 100, 100
gauge04=MiniPanel!Altimeter,                  400, 0, 100, 100
gauge05=MiniPanel!RPM Indicator,       500, 0, 100, 100

Hagar and Opa
You guys are EMT's for flight simmers.

Editing the default Panel.cfg will change the mini-panels of all aircraft that use it. This will be all aircraft of a specific type without their own MINIPANEL entries.

Note there are 3 basic categories under the following headers:
[MiniPanel00]
[MiniPanel01]
[MiniPanel02]

Each one can be edited as you wish. The [MiniPanel00] entry in my example appears to be the standard set used by prop aircraft. [MiniPanel01] is for jets & [MiniPanel02] for primitive aircraft like the Piper Cub.

I've never messed around with this before & it might be possible to add more categories. As always, take a backup copy of the CFG before editing it.

Hello

Do you know where is the mini-panel in FSX?
There's no "default" folder in the Airplanes folder

Thanks

Hello

Do you know where is the mini-panel in FSX?
There's no "default" folder in the Airplanes folder

Thanks

I have very few "add-on" aircraft for FSX and all of them have their own mini-panel entries in their panel.cfg file.

The "Default" folder in FS2004 was only used if the aircraft in question did not have a mini-panel section specified in it's panel.cfg.

I am just guessing, but perhaps true FSX aircraft all have such a section.

I underlined the word true as many aircraft which are said to be FSX planes are really FS2004 aircraft which have been tweaked to work in FSX - rather than being totally designed, following all of the MS guidelines, as FSX aircraft. There is a difference.

This is true, original FSX have their own mini-panel window inside each aircraft panel.cfg.
I have several aircraft from FS9 that are flying in FSX with no problems.
On such aircrafts (without specific mini-panel), when I cycle on the W key,  the first window shows the "traditional" mini-panel, which I couldn't find out where it came from!
I moved to a wide screen monitor and I was trying to have back round gauges!

FSX-the generic minipanel is now 'MiniPanel.cfg' in the main ..\Gauges\ folder.

Dave

Right on - never thought to look there.  THKS!

Thanks a lot folks

It's really there. Funny thing is I knew there was a minipanel.cab in the same place ...
Like we say here, if it was a snake I should be bitten by now..

Luiz