Those TC-10's look pretty interesting as free-standing display units. The displays on the Pilatus look like either Garmin G-1000 (with custom options) or Honeywell Primus EPIC displays, the G1000 displays are exactly 10" diagonal. You might have to fiddle a bit with the Line Select Keys along the edges.
The enormous variety in current glass flight decks means we really need to think of a new way of defining glass cockpit layouts. Currently, most instrumentation is hard-coded and the binary only provides full displays (like in Project Magenta or OpenGC). You may be able to move the displays around, but not the individual elements (widgets) inside the displays. Why not make either an XML-based or a byte code based layout definition (like ARINC661) which allows more flexibility in the creation of GC displays, as the layout is defined in data, not program code, and can be changed run-time. Especially with modern aircraft this might end up being very useful. Phil Panelli schreef: > Hi Bill, > > Not quite but ...... > > http://store.earthlcd.com/TC-10-TC10?sc=7&category=13 > > compared against > > http://www.pilatus-aircraft.com/applications/webgallery/webgallery/includes/images/800-600/Pilatus-PC-12-NG-26.jpg > > Let's say I have a few tc-10's left over from another project that is > dead .... > > I really like that pilatus layout but I also like to fly other aircraft. > > There just seems to be an uncanny similarity between the look of the > real thing and those units. > If you consider the fact that some of the simulated steam gauges can be > a much as half as one of these units. > The dual scan is not so great but a little contrast adjustment, lights > out , a few 22" lcd panels for the out the window view. > > It's got some possibilities... and Earth lcd had about 90,000 of them in > inventory last time I checked. I would not wish to limit the > development to just those units. > > I would put some time into this.... This time I think it should be a > flightgear sub project . > > I'm just having a hard time getting my hands around the state of things .... > > > Sorry for the rambling ..... Just thinking out loud . > > > Phil > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
