panel installation

[kevsp4072]

hello,simviation forum,would some please help me installed panels,i am having problems installing these panels,can some one please explain to me step by step how you do this,i try to unzipping the the panel,and dragging it into the aircraft folder,can someone please help me please.

[Travis]

Well, the usual method is to just unzip, then drag to the appropriate aircraft folder.  If there are gauges included, they go in the main FS gauges folder.  That's about all.

What specific problem are you having?

[hiflyphil]

Hi

Panels usually come with detailed instruction's in the "readme" notepad.

The safest way to intall panels is:
a) unzip the panel you downloaded to a neutral area, such as your desktop.
b) backup your original panel.cfg file or rename e.g. panel2.cfg
c)copy the contents of the unzipped file to the aircraft panel directory.
d) if there are gauges, copy these to the gauges file.

Sometimes when you unzip the file, you get two new zip files, just unzip the panel.zip to the panel directory of the aircraft you want it for, and unzip the gauges.zip to the gauges folder.

I don't think I've encountered any panel problems so far, so if your having problems pu in another posting.

Regards
Phil

[Hagar]

Sometimes when you unzip the file, you get two new zip files, just unzip the panel.zip to the panel directory of the aircraft you want it for, and unzip the gauges.zip to the gauges folder.

Phil. I would strongly advise you or anyone else not to extract zipfiles direct to the sim. This is particularly important with 3rd party gauges. Your original tip was best. Do this with all zipfiles.

The safest way to intall panels is:
a) unzip the panel you downloaded to a neutral area, such as your desktop.

The destination can be any location on your HD & does not have to be the desktop. If you use the right-click WinZip options a single click will automatically extract the files/folders to a new folder in your download folder alongside the zipfile. This is the method I use for extracting all zipfiles.

PS. To install 3rd party gauges, open the folder containing the new gauge files, select all the files/folders & paste them into the GAUGES directory of the sim - in this case FS9\GAUGES. Do NOT overwrite files/folders if prompted.