Simple Conversion?

[Saratoga]

Can someone tell me if this is possible? The flight school I belong too recently bought a brand new C-172SP with an incredible panel. The HSI (not a heading indicator anymore ) looks perfectly identical to the King Air VSI. At the bottom, on the left is a heading adjust knob and on the right is a course adjust knob. Would it be possible to convert the King Air VSI into a HSI with the two knobs? I am not a gauge person and would be interested in seeing if anyone could accomplish this as it is the one thing I lack for making a perfect recreation of this aircraft. Thanks for any help you can provide.

EDIT: I guess I should add that the indicator looks visually similar to the default 737 HSI without all the indications of VOR, ADF, course, etc around the edges. Just the gauge. A simple white course pointer and a pink heading indicator with the main gauge being in white.

[garymbuska]

There are a couple of programs out there that will allow you to design and build gauges, and you you can also to this with XML.  If you can find a gauge allready made that fits your description than it would be quite easy to subsutite it for the other gauge. It is just a matter of putting the gauge in the gauge folder than editing the panel cfg file for the plane you want to edit and swap the new gauge for the default one. But I would not delete the actual gauge from the gauge folder as other planes might use it.

[Saratoga]

I've been designing panels for quite some time now so that is the easy part. I am just not much of a gauge designer. Could you reccommend a good gauge-design program?

[garymbuska]

SARATOGA
Sorry I do not know of one I have read post of people using one but do not rember what they use.
I have the payware program from FS PANEL DESIGN STUIDO. It says you can add new gauges but not sure if it will make a gauge from scratch. I will check it out tonight & let you know if it does. I have not tried this feature yet. I mainley use it to edit and add windows to existing aircraft but so far the added gauges I have added I have in my gauge folder.

[Saratoga]

Ok. Thank you very much!


Out of curiosity...should I distribute it (if I so choose to do so) with a VC for the default 172 (I have been testing it using one version of the plane and putting the panel in it's old folder which this plane uses) or should I pack up some photos of the real plane's interior and distribute it like so?