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I'm trying to find a download of a boeing 777 that has a full cockpit for FSX, everyone I download the cockpit instruments are blackened out.

Thanks

rmb823 wrote:I'm trying to find a download of a boeing 777 that has a full cockpit for FSX, everyone I download the cockpit instruments are blackened out.

Thanks

The problem you are having is that the panels are being aliased to a aircraft that you do not have. The way you can spot this is to open the Panel folder of the aircraft you should see a file called panel.cfg. When you open that you will see a line that looks like this
[fltsim]
alias=Airbus_A321\panel
In this case the aircraft is using the panel from the Airbus_A321
If you do not have this aircraft the panel will be blank
Your choices are to either look for a panel for the aircraft or change the Alias= line to a aircraft that you have
This is a common problem with freeware people do not know how to make a proper panel fro the aircraft they have uploaded so the use a panel from another aircraft.

Sounds more like you are missing a gauge. (alias will not have a VC and I know of no recent 777 with an aliased panel)

Can you give an example of a specific 777 with the problem you refer to?

I regularly check out some of the MANY of examples of 777 with VC and have found no problem with them.


FSX Boeing 777


One I just checked out -- FSX/P3D Boeing 777-232/LR Etihad Airways

Sounds more like you are missing a gauge. (alias will not have a VC and I know of no recent 777 with an aliased panel)

Hi pete, I downloaded the 777 plane from your link and it looks great except I have the same problem as rmb823; the glass panels are blank. I couldn’t find any “alias” reference in the panel config file and there was no separate “gauges” file in the download package. Could it be something to do with the “posky777_glassgauge” file in the panel folder? I would love to get this working as it seems to be a good model. How did you install the mod?

Regards,

Sinnkrate

Sounds very much like your missing a gauge file - though a quick look and they do seem to be there and I installed this 777 in a fresh copy of FSX Acceleration (Due to a recent HDD fry up & reinstall of new HDD & all software - still ongoing) It's my only 777 so far installed and I just installed it - there is only one way to install with folders.


So I didn't already have the gauge in my gauges folder (FSX - if gauges are in the panel folder that's OK)


Have you got FSX Acceleration? If not -- SP1 & 2 installed?

Have you got FSX Acceleration? If not -- SP1 & 2 installed?

I don’t have FSX acceleration but I have sp1 & 2. Would it be worth getting acceleration? It seems to be a bit expensive for 3 extra aircraft (which I don’t need) and a few missions. I only have Win XP and DX9c at the moment so perhaps that is causing problems with some mods.

I have a new computer on order which will be running Win10. The first thing I’ll do is install FSX and try it out. I suspect my current problems will pale into insignificance when I do that!

Has anyone else tried Win 10 yet?

W10 --- I run a laptop with W8 --

Lessons in life: 1 Major software new releases == == there WILL be fixes and updates.

So I will wait -- maybe 3-6 months -- updates/fixes/patches -- W10 now is still in 'late beta' -- that's how all software works -- late beta is '1st public release'


Meanwhile I'll be watching this -- because you won't be the only guys with this problem. Be great to crack it.

I've just installed it on my new comp with win 10 and a fresh install of FSX. Works a treat.

I love the 777; don't understand why it wasn't a default plane. This model is beutiful though.

Thanks to all for your replies,

Sink

rmb823 wrote:I'm trying to find a download of a boeing 777 that has a full cockpit for FSX, everyone I download the cockpit instruments are blackened out.

Thanks

Check this and see if this is what you might have missed doing when you installed the plane.
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=172186&p=1272802#p1272802


Rick

This is what my Polskys 777 look like.
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=172186&p=1272765#p1272765

pete wrote:One I just checked out -- FSX/P3D Boeing 777-232/LR Etihad Airways

That looks like the default VC from FS9.

Sinkrate wrote:I love the 777; don't understand why it wasn't a default plane.

The first time I flew the MSFS default 777 was in my uncle's copy of FS2000. I absolutely fell in love with it as well. I have no idea why they removed it after FS2004. Perhaps they just needed to make room somewhere. FSX, after all, is quite a big game in terms of required memory.