Default instruments after clicking 'W'

[olderndirt]

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

[Hagar]

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.

[Opa]

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

[Hagar]

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

[olderndirt]

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

[Hagar]

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.

[Led4blue]

Hello

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

Thanks

[Opa]

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.

[Led4blue]

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!

[dave3cu]

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

Dave

[Opa]

Right on - never thought to look there.  THKS!

[Led4blue]

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