With regard to the gauges, they're all there (there is no way they can be missing, as they are modeled into the aircraft). As pfflyers explains, you just have to move your viewpoint around in the cockpit to see them, just as you have to do with the real aircraft. We didn't make any concessions - unlike other Mustang products, ours was actually modeled for visual accuracy/authenticity, and more often than not, directly from the original engineering blueprints. The gauges are located just as they are in the real aircraft (if you find them located in any other way on another flight sim Mustang, I'm sorry, it was done wrong).
The switches for the drop tanks are different in different variants of the P-51D/K, as per original. On early P-51D's/K's, the drop tank/bomb switches are located on the lower left side of the instrument panel. On late P-51D's/K's, the drop tank/bomb switches are located on the center panel below the instrument panel. This change happened half-way through the P-51D-20-NA production block, when the zero-rail rocket system with control panel was built into the aircraft from the factory. I'm sorry, but there is no manipulable oxygen controls and the supercharger always remains on automatic - the product is not advertised as anything else. We did later add more functionality to the supercharger system and 3-position switch on the Mustang Tales models, but which unfortunately isn't present on the earlier products.
Part of the early P-51D/K cockpit configuration - engine controls on center panel, drop tank/bomb controls on instrument panel:
Part of the late P-51D/K cockpit configuration - engine controls on instrument panel, drop tank/bomb controls on center panel.
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