Jim Wilson wrote: > Can anyone ID the left two instruments in the top row and the left > most in the bottom row?
The top left is exhaust temperature (in fahrenheit, I think). To its right is airspeed in knots. The weird one at the bottom left is probably a gear indicator; it might plausibly be a stores indicator as well -- early model A-4's had only three pylons. There's something at the top of that gauge that could be a flap position indicator. This panel isn't quite right, though. The center attitude indicator isn't a flat card, but is in fact a rotating globe. There are some good shots from A-4M's here (the top level site is http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com): http://209.133.73.63/AWA/AWA_001-100/AWA_021-030/walk26_A-4M/part2/walk026B.htm I also don't see an AoA gauge (the indexers are there to the left of the front window, but there's also a rotary gauge), which is pretty important. There's also no engine tachometer, which is really critical. Note also the accelerometer just above the EGT gauge. I have backgrounds for some of these that I did a while back, but never integrated. Take a look at http://www.plausible.org/andy/gauges/all.png for the stuff that I have ready. These were all generated by a little perl (and postscript, and ImageMagick) code that I wrote to draw ticks and labels on backgrounds, with proper antialiasing and alpha. They look pretty good, but I lost interest before finishing the harrier cockpit. Bug me if you want to see the (very ugly) code. Andy -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
