Flight Instrument Panel
The fine-tuning works for the Standalone C172 Gauges have finally been completed. All instruments are now centered on the FIP and take up the whole area (320 x 240) without leaving any spaces on the left hand side for the displaying of any button commands.
In addition, none of the extra features found on the previous Integrated Series are added to these gauges, so that they could resemble and function as realistic as possible to the instruments in the real cockpit.
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Here are the preview images of the standalone C172 Gauges. Although they are, in theory, the extractions from the current Integrated Gauge Series, 
many of the artworks and layouts are newly drawn. So do some programming for optimization.
At present, all these standalone gauges are taking up the full footprint (320 x 240) of the Flight Instrument Panel (FIP). All knobs and buttons work as they should be.
Two things are yet to be decided: Continue reading
My C172 Integrated Gauge Series combine 14 instruments plus many other functions found on the C172 cockpit. The project was started a year ago since I only had seven FIPs at that time. And it was not economical (still true) to put some of the simple instruments each onto standalone FIPs.
However, never stop receiving inquires from friends asking for their standalone versions. So, before moving forward onto twin engines, I will spend some times working on these standalone gauges first. They include: Continue reading
Here comes the brown color variations of the Attitude Indicator as promised months ago. Notification and download links for this update have been sent to all users. 
Unlike the previous updater, Continue reading
Yes, you saw it right. Besides the usual gauge instruments, you can now put the GPS onto the FIP !
Last November, Alexey Podrezov’s FIP Customizer gave us the ability to freely replace the FIP’s default product image as well as to easily disable the serial number from showing up on the FIP.
This summer, Alexey further enhances his utility by adding a number of great features to it. The new utility is called the FIP Toolkit.
In addition to the already mentioned “GPS Display” function, the utility can also project Continue reading
The Attitude Indicator has just been updated to include the OMI Markers. They will 
light up accordingly when beacons are encountered around any airport that provides these signals.
Notification of this update patch has been sent to all existing users.
This update patch (so will be the future ones) is included with an automatic updater to make installation and update of my gauges as simple as possible.
The brown-color version of this gauge shown on the right is coming soon. Improvement doesn’t stop at what we are. Continue reading
The AirSpeed Indicator and Turn Coordinator of my C172 Integrated Gauge project have just been completed. Both are equipped with the Automatic Installer.
Features on the gauges are straight-forward and their operations have been demonstrated in the videos shown in Post 283.
Two things worth mentioning are: Continue reading
Some friends are curious about how my C172 Integrated Gauges all together look in real simulator. Here are four quick videos showing how they perform from Engine Startup, Taxi, Take-off to Maneuver. Background airport is Bowerman KHQM in the United States. Simulator is Prepar3D v25 with the free Bowerman airport addon from Orbx.
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Was originally planning to add the Automatic Installer to all my existing paid-gauges after the release of the coming AirSpeed Indicator and Turn Coordinator later this month. Due to receiving some immediate requests, revisions has been put upfront.
With this Automatic Installer, all user needs now just to unzip the package, and then click and run the utility. That’s it.
The installer will add the new gauge to the END of the existing gauge list and modify the SaiFlightSimX.xml under DirectOutput folder automatically. Original SaiFlightSimX.xml will be backup automatically too.
DO NOTE THAT Continue reading
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