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Airacobra Instrument Panel
Hello All,
The Virtual Cockpit and SCASM edits were done not long after the prior post.
I had not realised that I didn't post any screenshots.
The first attached image show what an actual cockpit view from the Airacobra looks like.
To maintain the aspect ratio of the CFS panel, the last two rows of gauges could not be included.
The second image is a screenshot of my new Airacobra Panel background with gauges.
Note that the arrangement of gauges in the CFS panel is only meant to give an impression of the actual instrument panel.
In the actual aircraft, the instrument panel is very narrow but very high and there are controls tucked into various corners of the cockpit. (The Starter is a pedal on the cockpit floor.) There are also instruments that have no equivalent. (Gauges for the propeller reduction gear, etc.)
The center panel is mostly correct with the exception that the compass is replaced by a clock. There is no point in having both a Compass and a Directional Gyro in CFS.
The right panel contains engine gauges as on the actual aircraft.
The left panel is an assortment of gauges that have no other place.
Improved versions of some gauges are already in the works and I can see quite a few places where the background can be improved.
- Ivan.