The Carenado CT210M is one of my favorite aircraft and it actually was the first third-party aircraft I ever purchased for flight simulation many years ago. 
Nevertheless, I had felt something wrong about its cockpit instrument but I couldn’t figure out what it was until recently when I was asked to worked on the X-Plane version of the ASI Gauge for Logitech’s Flight Instrument Panels (FIPs).
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For those subscribers who already signed in for my earlier announced C172 Fuel Gauges, CONGRATULATIONS, you are not just getting one but a total of five C172 gauges on this 3rd Anniversary Day of FSX Times. The links by email should be arrived at your mailbox while you are reading this post now.
Except the new Integrated Fuel Gauges, the additional four gauges are revamped from the T210 counterparts but packed with more functions and facelifted to resemble the default C172 gauges as much as possible.
I used to only flightsim Cessna 172 before switching to the bigger T210. But even though the C172 is no longer my favorite, I’ve kept thinking of creating new FIP gauges for it.
The C172 gauge on the right, though looks simple, consists of four different gauges actually. And how to properly shink them within the small footprint of the FIP resolution requires many attentions too.
After working on and off over the last few weeks, the overall design and programming for it were basically done. It has now entered the testing and adjustment phase.
I am aiming to have it ready on the Third Anniversary Day coming in this month for friends who’s been supporting FSX Times.
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Many friends ask me where I find information about gauge building.
It’s a typical but a true answer – from the Internet.
Following is a good piece of background reading I often make reference to:
Truly they are not directly dealing with gauges for Saitek’s FIPs, but the basics and theories are more or less the same.
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