Panel for Cadets

[PaulC]

Morning All,

As this is the area for all the clever, magical folk, I wonder if anyone could do me a favour?

My cadet Squadron has recently taken delivery of a very good PC to run our simulator and courtesy of Flight Store in Mirfield, we have a ton of peripherals at a very reasonable price.

We have a multi-screen set up and projector and by moving the Monitors about and sliding windows here and there we can have multi-crew operations.

What I'd like, but can't find anywhere on the web is a Navigators Station panel. i.e. 2 VOR receivers, 2 ADFs, an analogue clock, Nav and NDB frequency panels, ASI, Altimeter, wind gauge, Whiskey Compass, that kind of thing that will fill a screen and can be added to various aircraft so we can teach navigation and crew co-operation

Does anyone have or know where such a panel is?

If I could make my own panels I would. My level of experience only allows me to edit what gague is shown on existing panels.

Thanks,

Paul

[Chris Sykes]

Hi Paul,

If you get no where with the panel you could try Flight Sim Commander, http://www.fscommander.com/features.htm quite simple and can be run locally or via a networked PC (FSUIPC and WideFS required)

[PaulC]

Hello Chris,

Thanks for that. It's a 2D panel that has the instruments a navigator would use I'm after so they can sit at a tab leith charts and also indulge in a little radio Nav.

[PaulC]

Any body able to throw some advice my way or point me in the right direction?

Like I said, a nice 2D panel with Nav instruments on is all I'm after with a straight, plain background. Nothing fancy, just functional.

Thanks,

Paul

[Chris Sykes]

Hi Paul, are you talking about a in sim panel like the pop up GPS style of things?

[PaulC]

Hi Chris,

Yes, like the autopilot panel, or fuel management panel, or radio stack, but one that represents a navigators station.

[Chris Sykes]

Sounds like you(or someone here willing in the know how), may need to create one, i had a quick google search and only found a few things that wouldnt surfice as a Nav panel...

[TSR2]

Hi Paul,

Let me see if I can dig out my copy of panel studio tonight. It sounds reasonably straightforward but im not much of an artist, so it might be a case of dropping the gauges onto a standard grey background. Which aircraft would you want to add the panel to?

[PaulC]

Hello Ben.

That sounds fantastic

A plain background would be absolutely fine! It just needs to be generic really so I can drop it in to whichever panel folder we're flying its. I'm fine with editing which gauge is displayed, i.e. changing one HSI for another, but the initial sizing and background is beyond me.
Paul

[TSR2]

Hi Paul,

Sorry its been so slow. I've had a play with panel studio and I can knock something together. Could you let me know which model (ideally freeware) that you'd like me to use the gauges from and if you could email me through a rough layout that you'd like I'll put it together. My email addy is ben AT CBFSIM DOT ORG