I submitted 3 patches via Melchior today.
pa28-161 update
Last year after I "completed" the pa24, David Megginson sent me all the
detail pictures he had taken of his Piper Warrior II and indicated that
I should "finish" up the details on the pa28-161 in FlightGear. I spent
the last three weeks, evenings and weekends (other than 4 days at
Oshkosh) finally doing just that. Since the next release will still be
in plib, I did hot spots with panels (arg!). Many hot spots also have
"picks" in osg. This update took the pa28 past the level of detail in
the pa24, so I made several updates to the pa24 so they are at the same
level now.
You will notice that the aircraft now starts with all switches off and
the fuel selector on "off". As in the pa24, the clicking on "help" and
then "aircraft help" will give you the "keyboard" keys for all the
switches as well as a start sequence.
There are now "hot spots" for all the switches, etc., including the flap
lever, the rudder trim, and the elevator trim. The panel lights now are
on a dimmer switch. Did the same for the pa24 via rotation of the nav
light switch (as in the real pa24).
Added nasal electrical system, the kt70 transponder, an AMP meter,
magneto switch and key, flight com (texture only), vacuum gage, hobbs
meter (texture only), carb heat, primer, and nasal simulated egt and
stall warning that recognizes accelerated stall conditions, throttle and
mixture on the power quadrant, rudder pedals with brakes, hand brake,
yokes,and fuel valve and appropriate animations. Used several parts from
Torsten Dreyer's fine SenecaII.
2. pa24-250 updates - added the kt70 transponder and dimming instrument
lights as well as elevator trim hot spots on the overhead console.
Changes to 3D instruments
There are several changes to 3D instruments that might be noticed by
other AC.
1. Rescaled the radio_stack slightly to match the real dimensions of
the radios. Adding the kt70 made this dimension error obvious.
2. Shortened the RadioStack.ac rectangle so the extra space below the
kap140 is gone. Without this change, it would have over lapped the pa28
switch panel.
3. Added a "select" animation to the kt70.xml file to only display the
id_code (digit1 thru digit4) when the transponder has power. This
should not negatively impact any other users as all the other features
don't work without transponder power.
4. Changes to other 3D instruments:
a. shortened the asi.ac needle so it stays within the instrument.
b. added material animation to the pa28-fuel-oil.xml controlled
by the panel light dimmer.
c. added "click" groups and resized the pick rectangles to just
slightly larger than the knobs they control in osg for alt.ac, hi.ac,
and vor.ac. This was an attempt to make the pick rectangles less
intrusive in plib.
Let me know if any of these changes have a negative impact on any other
AC.
Enjoy a night approach in the Warrior II!
Dave
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