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ErnieAlston · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2008 6:14 am

A little tease to wet your appettite for the next full ISG update.

They'll be at least 4 new gauges.

Trimble 2101 GPS (also called CUGR GPS), something that was about 75% completed, intended originally for ver 1.0, but was never finished. Will be completed for the 1.5 Update.

DU 1000 style EHSI Unit, modeled after the version used on the A300,A310, F70, and F100.

Honeywell MD11/B717 style Navigation Display.

Sperry FMS , they'll be two Sperry FMS versions, one for use with the DU 1000, and the other for use with the MD11/B717 style ND. The two FMS versions are very similar in functionality.

More to come on these modules, as the 1.5 project progresses.

This is still a ways away however, the next update will be ver 1.4.5, which will address most of the issues that have come up for ver 1.4.

Regards.
Ernie.

graemeb · **Joined:** Sun Dec 24, 2006 10:51 pm **Posts:** 26

That looks fantastic! I can't wait to get my hands on the MD11/B717 Nav display

Thanks for your support and development of these great products!

kremin · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:34 am

Sounds great Ernie, and thanks for a superb product coupled with virtually immediate support.....don't you ever sleep ?

best regards

Rick Canham
Kangaroo Island
South Australia

Brian_ · **Joined:** Sun Jan 06, 2008 6:51 pm **Posts:** 186

Awesome Ernie!

Btw, I can't see the pics. :cry:

ErnieAlston · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2008 6:54 pm

kremin wrote:

Sounds great Ernie, and thanks for a superb product coupled with virtually
immediate support.....don't you ever sleep ?

I try hard not to, but I just can't seem to avoid it sometimes

Brian_ wrote:

...
Btw, I can't see the pics. :cry:

They seem to be there, I see em, but here are the direct links to the images.

http://www.isgsim.com/dl/isg_cugr_gps1.jpg
http://www.isgsim.com/dl/isg_du_ehsi1.jpg
http://www.isgsim.com/dl/isg_mdll_nd1.jpg
http://www.isgsim.com/dl/isg_sperry_fms1.jpg

Regards.
Ernie.

Brian_ · **Joined:** Sun Jan 06, 2008 6:51 pm **Posts:** 186

Got 'em now, Thanx Ernie. :wink:

Syff · **Posted:** Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:18 am

Thanks Ernie,

simply the best Service !

Jaggo · **Joined:** Sat Feb 09, 2008 8:34 am **Posts:** 9

Great! Lookin forward to it! Especially the Honeywell MD11/B717 style Navigation Display looks great! and b.t.w: Is there any chance to improve readability of the gauges in the VC, if zoom and view distance to the gauges is higher?

BAS · **Posted:** Sat Feb 09, 2008 1:52 pm

Hi Ernie !

Brilliant !

Are you doing all this work alone ?

Thank´s a 1000 times !

Regards

BAS

Bjarne Horsbøl

ErnieAlston · **Posted:** Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:13 pm

Jaggo wrote:

Great! Lookin forward to it! Especially the Honeywell MD11/B717 style Navigation Display looks great!

Thanks, lets hope the final result turns out as well.

Quote:

and b.t.w: Is there any chance to improve readability of the gauges in the VC, if zoom and view distance to the gauges is higher?

Try increase the pixel_size= parameter in the panel.cfg, it may have an effect in some cases.

But there will be a cost to this, it may require you to resize and reposition the other VC gauges to compensate for the new pixel size, as all the VC gauges will be affected by this change, and you may also have a reduction in frame rates.

The examples below is from the default FS9 737-400 VC, where I increased the pixel_size from 512,512 to 1024,1024.

[Vcockpit01]
Background_color=0,0,0
size_mm=512,512
visible=1
pixel_size=512,512
texture=$737_1

[Vcockpit01]
Background_color=0,0,0
size_mm=512,512
visible=1
pixel_size=1024,1024
texture=$737_1

Notice the improvement in clarity on both the ISG ND, and the default 737 RMI.

But also notice the drop in the frame rate.

Regards.
Ernie.

ErnieAlston · **Posted:** Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:28 pm

BAS wrote:

Hi Ernie !

Brilliant !

Are you doing all this work alone ?

Thank´s a 1000 times !

Regards

BAS

Bjarne Horsbøl

Thanks,
Yes, I do pretty much everything except the TCAS, and the bitmap artwork.

A guy named Marco Doelling does all the background artwork for us, the TCAS in ISG1 is a licensed version of Lee Hetherington's freeware TCAS.

Regards.
Ernie.

Neil-VAFSMP · **Joined:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:16 pm **Posts:** 14

Those new gauges will make me sooooo happy!!

Great job Ernie..

I will have to test out the pixel size change.. That looks nifty..

ErnieAlston · **Posted:** Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:27 pm

Neil-VAFSMP wrote:

Those new gauges will make me sooooo happy!!

Great job Ernie..

I will have to test out the pixel size change.. That looks nifty..

Thanks neil,

I tried it on several VC panels this past weekend. Some it worked and some it did not. I think it may have something to do with the bitmap resolution used in the VC model itself as to how much effect this will have.

Regards.
Ernie.

Jaggo · **Joined:** Sat Feb 09, 2008 8:34 am **Posts:** 9

Yeah the pixel resize trick didn't work on my Eaglesoft CJ1 VC, but I still have to popop window option

Haven't tried it on any other aircraft jet, but I will do some further test this weekend with other aircraft. At the end it isn't the main factor, if using the gauges, but indeed an inprovement.

Robert Kurtz · **Posted:** Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:51 am

Looks great, I can't wait! I've got a plane/panel just begging for me to drop some of these into.

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