Lear 45 Panel Completed and Insrtalled

[Kris Stow]

Well got them finished up. there just temporary until the Innovative releases the Lear backlit panels.

What do you think?? 100% fully functional using FDS interface. Also got the warning lights to work as it does in FSX.:wink:

Regards,

[Efe Cem Elci]

Nice! Good work!

[Per Alm]

Nice work!
Looking forward to see more pics. Is your homepage updated lately??

/ Per

[XOrionFE]

Very nice Kris.

So you just printed the panels on vinyl then stuck them on correct? Was it just clear vinyl with white print? The gray matches the rest of the panel so nice I assume you used clear and not gray correct?

[Kennair]

Nice work Kris. Are you using the default FSX Lear panels?

Ken.

[XOrionFE]

Nice work Kris. Are you using the default FSX Lear panels?

Ken.

Ken,

Not to steal Kris's thread but from your site it appears you are doing your instrumentation and visuals the same way I am trying to. I have two video cards, a 7900 GS and an 8800 GS. The 8800 has a Matrox TripleHead connected to one out put which drives my outside views on 3 22" LCDs. I am attempting now to take the second output along with the 2 outputs on my 7900 to drive 3 lcds in my MIP. I am using FP Learjet along with Panel Studio to make panels for the MIP screens.

Two questions,

1. How does your simulator do performance wise with all 6 monitors going on your system? Are you having to dial back a lot of settings? Mine seems ok on full detail but a little stuttery depending on what I am flying over.
2. This is probably covered elsewhere but once you place your panels how do you get them to stay between boots? Do you somehow tell panel studio which monitor a panel window is going to be on or do you just place them in FSX and save the flight. I tried the later but it doesnt seem to work to well.

Thanks,

Scott

PS - Thank you for your Yoke Design - You can see my single version of yours in the photo gallery. Works like a charm.

[Kennair]

Funny you should respond Scott, I was just perusing your sim when I got this message. Must be nice flying the F16?

I only have 5 panels running as far as the PC/sim is concerned as there are the 3 screens running off the TH2GO, a Pilot panel which is split via a powered VGA splitter to the Co-Pilot screen and the centre instrument screen. In FSX I have performance sliders at about 75% overall with Frames locked at 25. I get good performance overall but it does ramp back to mid teens in high scenery areas, but still flyable. Sydney airport (I'm using FTX scenery here) is fairly intensive, but I'm getting 12-18's mostly. Once in the air though it quickly raises to 20's.

As for the panels, just make them up to your requirements using FS Panel Studio then open a flight, arrange your panels to the screens you want then save the flight with an appropriate name. Each time you load FS, load the saved flight and all panels will populate with the appropriate panel including the outside view. Too easy!

If you have FSUIPC4 (highly recommended) you can enable its SAVE option and you'll have an associated FSSAVE file along with the saved flights. Drag a shortcut of this to the desktop and clicking on this file will load the sim directly to your aircraft complete with arranged panels etc. without going through the main menu.

Glad you could make sense of the yoke instructions too .

Ken.

[Michael Carter]

Nice work! The second photo I could barely tell from real.

[XOrionFE]

Funny you should respond Scott, I was just perusing your sim when I got this message. Must be nice flying the F16?

I only have 5 panels running as far as the PC/sim is concerned as there are the 3 screens running off the TH2GO, a Pilot panel which is split via a powered VGA splitter to the Co-Pilot screen and the centre instrument screen. In FSX I have performance sliders at about 75% overall with Frames locked at 25. I get good performance overall but it does ramp back to mid teens in high scenery areas, but still flyable. Sydney airport (I'm using FTX scenery here) is fairly intensive, but I'm getting 12-18's mostly. Once in the air though it quickly raises to 20's.

As for the panels, just make them up to your requirements using FS Panel Studio then open a flight, arrange your panels to the screens you want then save the flight with an appropriate name. Each time you load FS, load the saved flight and all panels will populate with the appropriate panel including the outside view. Too easy!

If you have FSUIPC4 (highly recommended) you can enable its SAVE option and you'll have an associated FSSAVE file along with the saved flights. Drag a shortcut of this to the desktop and clicking on this file will load the sim directly to your aircraft complete with arranged panels etc. without going through the main menu.

Glad you could make sense of the yoke instructions too .

Ken.


Yes, I have FSUIPC4 but I didnt know it could do that....perfect! I will give that a shot. I did the saved flight scenario last night and it did work except the screens were way off. As soon as I grabbed and slightly move the title bar of a window and then release the window properly snaps to its correct position. I have to figure that part out because it would certainly be a PITA to do every time. However, your success gives me confidence I am on the right track. I am trying to avoid going the PMRJ route and save those dollars for other things.

Thanks!

[Kennair]

Actually Scott on reflection I think the FSSAVE is an FSX option. I'll check it out some more, but I know I have it enabled and works a treat.

If your panels are not coming up as expected check that your saving the flight in windowed mode. Always save the flight in windowed mode and make sure you close in windowed. You can run non-windowed mode once the flight has loaded if you want and all panels will remain intact. The one exception with FSX is your outside view on the TH2GO. Unlike FS9 it will not save the screen in it's full widescreen mode. It always seems to minimise down to a smaller panel view. You will have to expand this screen each time you load the flight. There is an addon solution I remember reading somewhere here but it does take some extra programming or software.

And honestly with programs such as Key2Mouse and FSUIPC's mouse emulation, I wouldn't bother with PMRJ at the moment. It seems to be so buggy for the cost and you can emulate every single switch and knob using the above and just use the default FS panels. Go all out and purchase an addon for a massive $39.95 if you wish :)

[Adino]

Wow! nice work man:cool:

[Matt Olieman]

Well got them finished up. there just temporary until the Innovative releases the Lear backlit panels.

What do you think?? 100% fully functional using FDS interface. Also got the warning lights to work as it does in FSX.:wink:

Regards,

FANTASTIC Kris, looks great!!!! Nice work :) :) :)

Congratulations :)

Matt Olieman

[ronjonrollo]

This looks good! So good your not in a rush for panels now! Ha HA HA:lol:
Talk to you soon Kris,

Ron Rollo
Jacksonville Florida USA

[Kris Stow]

Nice work!
Looking forward to see more pics. Is your homepage updated lately??

/ Per

I have slowly been adding updates. Its been really hard after hurricane IKE. We are still without internet, thankfully we got power yesterday and can charge my phone so I can link up to my laptop and still surf on MC.


Very nice Kris.

So you just printed the panels on vinyl then stuck them on correct? Was it just clear vinyl with white print? The gray matches the rest of the panel so nice I assume you used clear and not gray correct?

This is correct, had painted the panels when we built them, went to Kinko's and printed off some clear vinyl with white print. you can pick up the Adobe Illustrator file from my site "downloads" and take to kinko's. Make sure you have them correctly sized. The file is not a 1:1 scale.


Nice work Kris. Are you using the default FSX Lear panels?

Ken.

I am using the PMRJ version 91 along with Friendly panels for there V and L Nav through the FMS.


This looks good! So good your not in a rush for panels now! Ha HA HA:lol:
Talk to you soon Kris,

Ron Rollo
Jacksonville Florida USA

Well I wouldn't say were not all in a rush. ;) HAHA but sometimes to keep my project going I like to add my own touches. Thankfully there are people like yourself and Eric going for the 1:1 scale and that keeps me on track!!

Crossing fingers for the day there backlit!!:-P