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hey all i have a question about dynamic virtual cockpits.  basically, can you take the vc from one aircraft and add it to another.  more specifically, what i want to do is take the 737-800 vc and add it to the posky southwest addon.  i love swa but i cant stand flying with the 2d panel view.  i tried adding the texture but i forgot it was a -700 so it didn't work right.  does anyone have any ideas?  (I also tried the vc download from posky.com but it isn't dynamic)

No, you cant take the VC from one aircraft and put it on another. Unless you know how to re do the model in gmax. The VC of any aircraft cannot be used in another!

ok, thanks

You can do it, but dimensions and reference points become a problem. The fact that the interior and exterior models in FSX are seperate, and "linked" in the model.cfg file make it possible.

For example.. I took the default 737 interior model and plopped it in the AI MD-83 model folder and edited the model.cfg file to reckognize it (after making the MD-83 flyable and adding a 2-D panel, too).

When I loaded the plane to fly it, and went to VC view, I saw nothing. BUT... after panning around, I saw the interior model behind be, near about where the wings "would" be. Now.. you "can" edit the aircraft.cfg file to change view/eye-point so that when in VC mode, you're actually IN the VC... but you'd be flying from near the wings ( and odder yet, whatever wings you'd see out the window, would be the wings that were part of the interior model.. the wings seen from VC are NOT the wings from the exterior model).

Confused yet ?

The possibilities are good.. in that if you're a modeler, you can make your own VC for any plane. You can add a VC where ther is none, or replace one that you don't like.

(None of this applies to planes compiled for FS9 and then adapted for FSX)

Back to the original question..

thanks ill give that a try.  i understand what ur saying about they eyepoint, but im not a modeler, so i cant make my own.  is there some way i can add the pitch indicator and altitude etc to the existing cockpit?  the stock one doesnt have any lit flight displays, but it does have moving throttles