Gauges for Combat Flight Simulator
One of the things that has bothered me for years is not having stock gauges either in CFS or FS98 to do the things I want.
Some of the issues have been for Fuel Selectors for unusual Fuel Tank Arrangements and Multi-engine gauges that will work properly.
A few days ago, I was trying to explain to my son why I was trying to program my own Tachometer (easy first project I hope) and wanted to show him that the FS98 Cessna Tachometer simply did not work.
Strangely enough, the Cessna gauges worked perfectly as did the Extra's Digital Tachometer.
I was surprised. I KNOW they didn't work earlier which is why I wanted to program my own.
Last night, I was looking back on my test aircraft's panel and noticed that the Cessna Tachometer had stopped working again; Its needle was pegged at somewhere near 4000 RPM while the P-51D Tach and Extra's Tach both were reading near the correct 2600 RPM value.
Have any of you seen this before? Do FS98 or perhaps FS2000 gauges work in CFS? I know that CFS2 gauges do not work in CFS..
- Ivan.
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Tachometer Version 2 Testing
Hello All,
I have actually had some success with programming a Tachometer for CFS.
The test subject is a B-25 Mitchell, and unfortunately I have had to hard code the 2600 RPM Maximum.
In theory, it should be self calculating but I have not figured out how to do that yet.
Here is what it looks like.
The hole in the center of the pointer is so that I can tweak the alignment of the indicatory on the gauge face.
I am finding that the values which SHOULD center the gauges alignment is very close but is not precise.
- Ivan.
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Success? Maybe Not So Fast.
Here is a screenshot with a few different Tachometers while using the P-51D AIR File.
Only two gauges agree with each other. I need to make some serious adjustments.
- Ivan.
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Success? We shall see soon.
Hello All,
The new Gauge is on the top row, second from the right.
From appearances, it seems to match the
Extra 300 Digital Gauge,
P-51D Tachometer,
and Jerry Beckwith's Test Panel
quite closely.
A lot more testing needs to be done to verify the results,
If the testing is successful, there will need to be some major repackaging to be done.....
....But it is a good sign after all this time.
It isn't the entire solution to my twin engine projects but it is a major part.
- Ivan.