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Hello Klein,

It seems I might need to implement the same type of starter if I ever finish the Albatros D.Va that sits gathering dust in my workshop. It can be seen in its current state in the...

Hello Klein,

If you don't mind, I would like to take the design of the P-38 Fuel Selector to the "Gauges for Combat Flight Simulator" Thread so I can record the ideas for the design process and...

Hello Klein,

Don't misunderstand me. I haven't given up on working on a Fuel Selector combination for the P-38.
What I wanted to tell you was that the original idea of selecting an engine...

Hello Klein,

After consulting some fairly knowledgeable developers, the general conclusion is that selecting tanks for a particular engine simply is not possible.

My intention is to mimic the...

Hello Marty,

There are probably about a half dozen records in the AIR file that affect the Stall characteristics one way or another. To tune them PROPERLY is not a trivial or a quick task. Many...

Glad you got things working and found the problem.
If you want to narrow it down further and believe it is a Gauge, you can make a backup copy of the PANEL.CFG of one of the CTD aircraft and start...

When the Tigercat was uploaded a while back, I noticed a few issues with the release.
Since this isn't my project, I didn't do more than just note the issues in the process as described in the...

Two more Gauges are now finished for the Lavochkin fighters.
As expected, the Manifold Pressure Gauge was pretty trivial.
Other than the markings, it doesn't differ much from other Manifold...

I suggest you find an aircraft that does NOT CTD and copy its PANEL folder over to the aircraft that will not load.
It is possible that a common Gauge that all of the CTD aircraft use has been...

After a couple weeks of workigg mostly on Gauges, I now have the following additions:
Dual Pointer 4500 RPM Tachometer
A set of Cylinder Head Temperature Gauges based on a modified stock P47D...

Hello Klein,

My first try at the P-38 Fuel Selectors did not work.
There were multiple failures along with a minor logic problem.

- Ivan.

Hello Arfyhun,

Glad to see you again!
There actually was a lot more going on with this project than I am describing in this thread.
I have never actually described what the experiment was that I...

Hello Klein,

I do see what you mean about the different effect with a Dial Gauge and a non-linearity table.
Perhaps I will try that at some point.

You give me way too much credit for the...

By the way, there are a bunch of strange things.
The formatting is this way because this started as a modified SDK example.
Sometimes they put multiple parameters on a single line and sometimes...

Hello Klein,

The arrangement of Left-Main, Right-Main, and Center1 makes the Fuel Selector with the settings you described quite easy.
There is only one tank that needs to be selected...

Hello Klein,

If the tanks on the CFS2 Lightning are arranged the way they are on the actual aircraft, I am not sure the single Fuel Selector would be that easy to program.

The P-38 (Unmodified)...

Hello Klein,

I haven't started working on it yet, but I was wondering: You work with CFS2 and the P-38 Lightning is a stock aircraft in that simulator.

How do THEY handle fuel switching for the...

Just saw it again a couple minutes ago.

This Gauge was finished and tested last night.

The attached screenshot shows the new Gauge (on the Left) as compared to the stock P51D Three Way Engine Gauge.
As can be seen, the readings seem to...

The Bitmaps for this Gauge set were pretty typical and took a couple days to create.
The programming for the gauges took well over a week which is pretty unusual for a set of fuel gauges.
There...

This is a comparison of the appearance of the cockpit area before and after adding the armour plate behind the pilot.
The modifications to the shape of the headrest to fit entirely behind the armour...

The loaded / Take-Off weight I will be using to calculate the "Zero Fuel Weight" for the FW 190D-9 will be 4293 Kg.
Some sources list the loaded weight as only 4270 Kg but this is apparently for...

I went back through the Engine Tuning Tutorial and realized that I had actually substituted the Propeller Tables, 511 and 512 from the stock Me109G so that was done last night.

The first...

I have always stated that there were many shape problems with this particular 3D model and that I only intend to fix the worst of them.

One of the very noticeable things about this series of...

Hello All,

This post will be a bit long and possibly a little off-topic but hopefully some here will find it interesting and perhaps a few programming types may even find it useful.

First a...