Readme

Readme file for the Boeing 737-600/700/800/900 Captain and FO panel for FS2002 Pro by Andy Karlstetter (www.ndk-panels.webwide.de)

(the screenshots in this readme file are from a previous version of that panel, so don’t worry, it doesn’t look as bad as on these pictures)

IF YOU WANT TO USE GAUGES OR IMAGES FROM THIS PANEL PLEASE ASK ME

Installation:

· To get all the gauges working you must have installed the FS2002 update which is available on the microsoft homepage or flightsim.com!

· Extract all the files into your FS2002 folder with "use folder names" option enabled in your WinZip (www.winzip.com).

· Place the panel2.cfg (you can find this file in your FS2000\aircraft\fsfsconv\ndk_b737-700 folder) in the panel directory of an aircraft of your choice and rename it to "panel.cfg" (if you're asked to overwrite the old panel.cfg select yes if you want to use my panel on that aircraft)

About this panel:

This is my 6th attempt to design a good 737-ng panel for FS, and now, I think it's quite good (hope you think so, too). Everything started when a good friend sent me some pictures of a continental 737-ng. A few weeks later the photos arrived and I scanned them into my computer but the resolution was too bad so I started to build another hand_drawn panel and that's what the panel looked like first:

When the main panel was finished I thought this panel would need a new overhead so I searched a good photo of a 737-ng overhead and found Colin Abbot's overhead of a Brittannia 737. One day later the overhead was repainted, too. When he answered my permission e-mail he asked me if I wanted to have the photo in a higher resolultion but at this time it was already too late because the overhead was already finished.

For this panel I started programing gauges. I haven’t done this before but the new XML format of the gauges made it possible for me to access the gauges and write them. A lot of the XML files in the gauges folder were especially designed for this panel.

I already had designed all the necessary gauges of the three displays (pfd, nd, eicas) when I found Chris Reed’s 737-700 with perfect gauges which were public domain and in *.xml which made them perfect for this panel . So I threw out my old gauges and inserted his gauges set instead.

How to use:

For this panel you should use a 1024x768 or higher resolution. I use it in 1280x960 and everything works fine even the Frame Rates are good .

This cockpit is not very difficult to use but without knowing the hidden switches it's perhaps not too much fun to use:

Here's the overhead (red areas don't work in FS, the green areas do):

Here are the toggle switches of the main panel:

the Autopilot, which was especially designed for this panel. It’s a remake of the default 747-400 A/P so it sometimes behaves strange like the one on the 747, that’s not my fault, sorry:

Everything should be clear but here’s the description:

1. Course selector (to change the course you have to click on the display not on the rotor below, I hope you don’t mind, all the other like HDG selector or speed selector work fine)

2. Flight Director switch

3. Autothrottle switch

4. Mach switch (if you click on it the A/P holds the selected mach number, you don’t have to click on the speed button below like in the real aircraft, it was too complicated for me to program this option, sorry)

5. Indicated Airspeed hold button

6. Heading hold button

7. Nav hold button, keeps you on the selected radial of a VOR station or the GPS path

8. Vor/Loc hold button

9. Approach hold button, it keeps you on the glideslope and localizer on an ILS approach

10. Altitude hold button (works like in FS 2002 not like in reality)

11. vertical speed hold button

12. Autopilot master switch

13. vertical speed selector (in reality Up and Down are swapped)

The Efis Control panel:

Red:

+ increases the Decision Height

- decreases DH

Green

+ / - changes the display options of the RMI in the Left MFD (APP/Vor1/AFD)

Blue

+ / - changes the display options of the Nav Display from (Approach / VOR DME / GPS Window)

Yellow

ARC / ROSE toggle switch of the ND

Magenta

+ increases barometric pressure

- decreases barometric pressure

The N1 / Speed Ref. Control panel:

RED with white point:

+ / - switches from the Auto (no N1 limit) to the Both engines options

Red:

+ / - de/increases the N1 limit

Green with white point

+ / - switches through the different kinds of speed bugs (VR, V1, Vref etc.)

Green:

De/increases the different speeds

The toggle on the right side of the standard FS2000 toggles is the landing view toggle. After the landing view has appeared you should hit SHIFT+1 to make the main panel disappear. When switching back into the main panel configuration you should hit SHIFT+1 again.

Here's the landing view:

(Scenery on this photo: German Airports 1 payware)

Known issues:

· the second-generation display mode is missing. I left it away because it was very small and hard to read. And I think no one would have used it anyway. Maybe there’ll be an update someday but don’t ask when and if.

· In the overhead you have a black square next to the Standby Power stuff when the yaw damper is disengaged (that's a problem I can't fix)

…well, but the rest should be ok ;-)

Thanks:

· Richard Probst for letting me repaint most of his 737 gauges (you can find his awesome panel on flightsim.com. I think the file is called "rp733pn2.zip")

· the whole FPDA, Paul Golding, Andi Jaros and all the other guys for their great gauges

· Peter Beddig for his gauges

· All the other gauge designers

· Chris Coduto, Colin Abbot (overhead photo) and www.airliners.net for their great photos

· Britt Brainard for spending an incredible amount of hours on testing the beta version

· Chris Reed for his perfect 737-ng gauges

· Bill Leaming for sending me the toggle switch for the landing view.

· And all the others who helped me to make this panel enjoyable

DO NOT MAKE ANY MONEY WITH THIS PANEL OR ANY OF THE GAUGES.

DO NOT USE ANY IMAGES FROM THIS PANEL OR FROM THE GAUGES WITHOUT MY WRITTEN PERMISSION

DO NOT UPLOAD THIS FILE TO ANY SERVER OR SITE THAT REQUIRES A FEE FOR ACCESS

DO NOT DISTRIBUTE THIS FILE ON ANY "FOR PROFIT" CD-ROMS.

DO NOT USE THE GAUGES IN THE PANEL WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION. IF YOU WISH TO USE ANY OF THE GAUGES, PLEASE CONTACT ME SO THAT I CAN DIRECT YOU TO THE AUTHOR.

THIS PANEL IS FREEWARE. NO MODIFICATION FOR DISTRIBUTION WITHOUT EXPRESS PERMISSION OF AUTHOR. DO NOT MAKE MONEY WITH THIS PANEL OR ANY OF ITS COMPONENTS! PLEASE ASK THE AUTHOR FOR PERMISSION IF YOU WANT TO USE ANY COMPONENTS OF THIS ZIP TO AVOID COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT!

NOTHING IN THESE FILES SHOULD HARM YOUR COMPUTER AND I ACCEPT NO LIABILITY.

Please read the entire file carefully before mailing with problems to:

andy@mucl.de

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