VFW 614
PANEL USAGE
This panel is based upon original photographs published on the excellent websites http://www.generalaviation.de/aircrafts/vfw614/
http://www.ewetel.net/~andreas.poppe/ of the aircraft itself,
as well as http://www.edwm.de/index.htm?vfw614.htm , http://www.bredow-web.de/ILA_2002/Transportflugzeuge/Attas_VFW_614/attas_vfw_614.html ,
and several other web sources.
On the G7 type it actually looked as follows:
We have tried to adapt this and other pictures into a bitmap suitable for FS9.
The copyright for this bitmap resides with Fred Holst ; it is declared freeware. Together with the resulting panel it is released as freeware, nobody being permitted to make money with this design; anybody wishing to use it for other aircraft may feel free to do so as long as the above mentioned authors are given due reference.
The gauges used have been published on the internet viz. flightsim.com, avsim.com, ewetel.net/~andreas.poppe/ , Classic Airliners etc. With the exception of some xml-gauges contained in FHTOGGLES.CAB made by us, all gauges are copyright of their resp. authors, not named one by one and whose work we highly appreciate and acknowledge. A couple of them are explained further down.
In the following you find screenshots taken during work with http://www.fspanelstudio.com Build:15988 which in their majority are self-explaining.
1. the basic panel, to be more or less adequate to the time when the aircraft were built:
2. The toggle switches are explained as follows:
3. the GPS subpanel opens in the right half of the main panel:
4. the navcomm radios open in an overlay:
and contain Nav1, Nav2, Comm2, ADF and DME1 and DME2.
5. The HUD is very handy when using the free cockpit view, especially for landing; we think that the minipanel used by MS often blocks the view and prefer a different kind of head-up display:
6. the Throttle bases on the Lear45 instruments:
7. The navigation instruments, for those who still love flying according to manual ifr rules, pop up as follows:
8. the MAP VIEW, CHECK LIST and ATC toggles are those of MS FS itself and not specified here.
9. As often it is more comfortable to use modern instrumentation, you may open an overlaying modern Captain's panel as follows:
10. another overlay is a complete IFR panel, only allowing a small window view:
All significant instruments are on one panel; it permits a valuable training for IFR flying even at full visibility day time.
11. Another subpanel refers to the electric system, not shown here, and a fuel control panel hereunder:
12. The last but one subpanel is the Pedestal, based on an actual photograph:
13. We have got a final subpanel called FID with a special gauge, the explanation of which is given in the author's own words:
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Flight Information Display Version 3
This is my third (and I think last) version of a Flight Information Display - FID. If should give you some useful informations about your plane and your flight.
What has changed since version 2:
- Sorry - I forgot all the pilots outside Europe while programming the TATL-part of the gauge, the TL was limited to 10000 feet. Now it can be set up to 20000 feet.
- I put in another conversion for the fuel amount, now it has "kg", too.
- The biggest change is the addition of a COM/NAV-Page: Now you can set all your Com's and Nav's from my gauge, even ADF and transponder!
- As some planes tend to "hopp" on the runway while taking off, the start and end time of the flight were completely spoiled (Kittyhawk 737-800 and others ...), therefore I had to change the algorithm for that part. Now the start time will be set, when you reach a certain altitude (Cockpit 25 feet above ground) and the end time will be set when you get below that altitude.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I spent quite a time understanding the format and tags, writing the source and painting the background BMP - and you get it for free (not matter if it is usable to you or not ;-) ) and therefore PLEASE KEEP IT free! It may be distributed and even altered (if you know how to do that, you probably will have no use for it, either :D ) but noone should get money for it - at least not until I get more than 50% of it!
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Usage:
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There are 6 Pages and the information about Top of Climb (TOC) and Bottom of Descent (BOD).
The latter can be toggled be clicking on the "Toggle TOC/BOD" and shows, how many miles you will have to fly and how long it will take to climb/descent to the altitude you set in the autopilot.
Page 1: Fuel
The informations given are pretty straight:
* Remaining fuel in all fuel tanks
*already used fuel (starts counting, after you pressed the "CLR" button on the right)
* UTC Time, when you started to count the fuel (this should be almost the time, when you get your clearance from ATC and therefore should represent the start time of your flight (some VA's want that time from their pilots)
* estimated time to "zero fuel"
* estimated range to "zero fuel"
* press the "CONV" button to see the fuel in other units like lbs and kg
Page2: Time and Temperature
* current UTC time
* Start Time: Will be set, when you are leaving ground
* Flight time: Will start counting, when you are leaving ground and will stop, when you hit it again (no matter how hard ;-) )
* End Time: Will be set, when you touch ground
* You can clear the three last values by clicking the "Clear Times" on the right.
* Outer Air Temperature in Celsius and Farenheit
Page 3: Speed
* Indicated Airspeed
* Maximum Speed
* Current mach number
* Stall speeds without and with flaps
Page 4: Wind
* Wind speed
* Wind direction
* Rose showing the angle of attack of the wind against the plane (if the wind comes from behind, the needle will show from "six o'clock" to the centre)
Page 5: Transition Altitude - Transition Level
The use is quite simple:
a) You have three buttons on the right. The top button (LCL) sets the local altitude setting to the TATL-Gauge and to your altimeter (the same as using the "B"-key). The second button toggles the altitude displays (TA and TL) between feet and meters and the lowest button toggles the altimeter display betweeen mbar and inchHG.
b) On ground press the LCL-button to set your altimeter and the altimeter of the gauge to local setting. Change the TA and TL values by pressing on them to the values made public by ATC. While climbing through the TA altitude, you can watch your altimeter switching to standard setting. When you are approaching your destination airport (when you tune to the appropriate CTR), you should switch TL and the altimeter setting of the gauge to the local altimeter(by changing the value by clicking on it - not by pressing the LCL-button!!!). While descending through the TL altitude, your altimeter setting will be set to the one of the gauge.
c) As a little visual help you can see "TL" or "TA" written in green or white, depending on your altitude (above TL, the TL is green and below TA, TA is green).
Page 6: Com and Nav
You can see the active and standby frequencies of COM1, COM2, NAV1 andNAV2 and also ADF and Transponder.
You can change the standby frequencies by clicking on the - click on the upper part of the frequency and the value will be incremented, click on the lower part and it will be decremented. In the same way you can change the ADF frequency and the transponder code. To swap the active and the standby frequency, click on the red doublesided arrow between the frequencies.
If you have questions, sugestions or want to thank me (or send me money ;-) ), write a mail to
Georg.Aubele@gmx.de
Have fun,
Georg
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14. RWYINFO gauge:
The author has explained the usage himself as follows:
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Runway Selection Gauge Ver 1 (Build # 5) (By Ernie Alston).
This gauge is very simple, though very usefull.
Have you ever been approaching an airport and wished you could quickly get
a list of ILS frequencies for that airport so you could tune the one you want ?
Sure there are charts, but it could take a while to find your runway, and not everyone
has the charts. This gauge will allow you to quickly find your runway and set the correct
frequencies for the approach.
It should be very helpfull when flying online ATC with SATCO or IVAO and the
Controller tells you the runway to expect. Now you don't have to start
frantically fliiping through your charts to find the frequency/obs setting
info.
Just click on this gauge, enter the ICAO information, and your all set.
Enjoy
Ernie.
NOTES: Build #3 makes a distinction between Localizer type approaches (ILS,LOC,BC, LDA, SDF)
ILS ILS approach (Localizer and Glideslope)
LOC Localizer only (No Glideslope)
BC Localizer Backcourse approach
LDA Localizer type directional aid (May or may not have a Glideslope, Usually is offset from the runway heading).
SDF Similar to an Localizer only approach but is less precise.
A description of these different approach types can be found here... http://www.faa.gov/ATPubs/AIM/Chap1/aim0101.html
USAGE INSTRUCTIONS:
1) Click on the hot area of the gauge, and a Dialog box is displayed.
2) Select type (Airports or Navaids)
3) Type in the ICAO code you wish to recive runway information for.
4) A list of runways for that airport are displayed
5) DoubleClick on the runway line to have the Nav1 Freq/VOR1 OBS set
for the runway selected in FS2000.
When you DoubleClick on a runway the Dialog box will close and the
Nav1 Freq/OBS will be set for the runway you selected.
Theres a ComboBox on the top Center, that will display the Airport Name
if one is found that matches the characters you enter into the ICAO box.
Partial matches will be displayed in a list in the ComboBox. Click on the
down arrow to see the entire matching list.
Example: If you type the letter 'K' all the Airports who's code 'begins'
with the letter 'K' will be displayed.
If you wanted to select from all the UK Airports, you can enter
'EG' and all the Airports who's code begin with 'EG' will be displayed
in the ComboBox.
If you select an Airport name from the ComboBox list, then the runway
information for that airport is displayed in the ListBox below.
When an exact match is found, the runway information will be displayed
for that airport.
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For using the autopilot setting features.
1) Enter the value in the boxes below, or select the item off the pulldown menu.
2) Click 'Exit', when exit is clicked whatever values that are currently in the boxes
will be set on exit if the box is not empty.
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More details can be found at the website below.
Gauge website http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/alstoer1/rwygauge.htm
Acknowledgements:
This gauge was created with information contained in the gauge creation tutorial
'FS2000/CFS Gauge Creation Tutorial Rev. 3 (sd2gau04.zip)' by Dai Griffiths.
The file is available at FlightSim.com.
Contact:
Ernie Alston alstoer1@compuserve.com , ernie.alston@pharma.novartis.com
FSBuild Website http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/alstoer1/fsbuild.htm
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The appertaining files are included in this package, properly marked, to be moved to your FS9 root directory. Please do not tamper with them unless you know what you are doing!
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This completes the actual panel and its functions.
In case of doubts you may contact Fred Holst ( fredholst2003 at yahoo.co.uk) .
Disclaimer: nothing contained herein guarantees that the computer system of the user can handle bitmaps, gauges or functions employed by this panel; we do not assume any liability for functionality; we refuse any liability for damages to the computer system on the user's side directly or indirectly caused by using this panel, aircraft, sounds or other components. All parts of this program module have been thoroughly tested on PCs and laptops using Windows XP SP2, 1 GB RAM and 3 GHz speed without any problems.
Nothing contained herein is intended to claim or violate copyrights of third parties; the usage of copyrighted material is done on the understanding that this material has been released as freeware to the flight simming community; people who feel their rights violated are invited to contact the undersigned for adequate action.
UK, April 2005
Fred Holst