Maybe Reality XP could do something like this as they did with their EFIS.I'm looking for really fluids analog gauges (payware or freeware) like for example, an HSI with fluid needle movements, an ADF indicator, a fluid artificial horizontal/attitude indicator, an OBS with a fluid CDI needle and glideslope needle.I bought one of the recently released GA aircraft (my first payware GA airplane) to practice instrument flying hoping to find fluid gauges but unfortunately I didn't find what I was looking for, it has a fluid VSI, a semi-fluid altimeter and a fluid speed indicator but the rest aren't as fluids and therefore makes it a little more difficult to be accurate while doing instrument procedures (eventhough FPS are good, solid 20). To illustrate a little what I

I have been waiting for this for a long time-along with a much bigger assortment of instrumentation that matches real world instruments. Fs2000 when it first came out did have fluid instruments. So many people complained about the "stutters" out the 3d view window however, that ms made a patch which reduced the out the window stutters at the expense of having jerky gauges. This made most happy-but I liked it the other way myself.Since then, I feel the smoothness of the out the view window has taken precedence over instrumentation smoothness-unfortunately. In any case-yes smoother instruments, and more like their real counterparts!http://mywebpages.comcast.net/geofa/pages/Animation1.gif

Carlos,for practicing VFR or IFR flights, with the Reality XP razor sharp precision, smooth VOR/ILS needles, complex systems yet easily managed, and the most versatile robust navigator, aka GNS530 Garmin, there is only one: The Piper Meridian:http://www.reality-xp.com/products/meridian/index.htmAnd as an additional note: the FS2004 version is not longer impaired in terms of performance like the FS2002 version: it is completely redesigned with the latest Reality XP technologies and research & development for speed and accuracy.You certainly won't regret it!As for smooth analog gauges, make sure to voice your request to the Reality XP forum as well!Hope this helps!

Well Geofa, I'll suggest this on the Reality XP forum, let's hope they think there is a market for it (I think there is a big market).It would be great if we can have a Line like the ones they are offering now, something like Analog GA Line from Reality XP that includes all the instruments we find on a non-EFIS airplane and we can place them in any panel, just the same way we can do with their current products.Let

I've heard so many great thing about the Meridian that I can't take it anymore...I'm ready to buy it, but first I would like to know if I can use the GNS530 in any airplane I have? (I would manually install it on the panels of course)Carlos.

Hi Carlos,Yes, you can use the GNS530 in any airplane. In fact it comes with a utility called 'EZ Config' for adding it automatically! You can also add it manually by opening up the 'panel.cfg' of the aircraft in question and then adding a window for it like so(just an example)...Window06=Reality XP 530 GPS...further down the file...{Window06}BACKGROUND_COLOR=2,2,2size_mm=500,360window_size_ratio=1.0position=2visible=0ident=GPS_PANELgauge00=RealityXP_FL530XP!GNS530,0,0,500,360Cheers,Jim

Thanks Jim, that's all I need to know to go and buy the Meridian. It's amazing isn't it, $29.95 for the Meridian and includes a product that alone it cost $29.95 :-hah...I thought it was too good to be true *:-* Btw Jim, are you interested in the Analog gauges thing? Just wondering how many people would be interested.:-outta Running to get the Meridian.Carlos.

Well, I'm glad we have these forums around. Browsing over the Flight 1 forum I found several question about the Meridian's Garmin and the possibility of use it in other airplanes, the answer is no. I guess it was too good to be true uh? :-lol But anyway, the funny thing is that I'm still gonna buy it. I really need those smooth gauges anyway.Carlos.

NO! You cant use the RealityXP GNS530 that comes with the Meridian in other airplanes! Its bound to the Meridian.That doesn't mean, that the Meridian isn't worth the money you pay for it, it's a superb airplane!To use the GNS in an other plane of your choice, you must buy the standalone GNS530 (which i did). This one has the EZ-config utility.Hope this helps.Cheers,Michael

>window stutters at the expense of having jerky gauges. I am not sure I see a technical reason for such a trade-off. No stutter scenery updates was result of decoupling aircraft movement from scenery updates and it was the right thing to do. No big commercial simulator ties aircraft movement to scenery updates. And why all of a sudden gauges became more jerky - I am afraid it has nothing to do with the 'smooth' scenery but some other software idiosyncracy.Michael J.

Jean-Luc, thanks for the recommendation...I bought the Meridian and I'm amazed, I'm really impressed -and I'm hard to impress-. I have only felt this two times before with an airplane in FS, first with Fanda's Dash 8 then with PMDG's 737.The Meridian IS PERFECT, just like that, no other words to describe it but PERFECT. I regret I didn't buy it before, I feel I've wasted my time not flying this bird :-lol . It runs so smooth, I can easily use it for training purposes.There is only one draw back, I've had the opportunity to fly the best airplanes around (in my opinion those two mentioned above plus the Meridian), and they are so great that my perception of "quality" on an add-on airplane has risen to levels so high that are hard to reach even harder to exceed. I mean, now I see other airplanes like just an attempt to do something good but that's it, now I rated them as OK or even less.I'm speechless...thanks again.Carlos.

I agree. After tasting such a "perfection" it is hard to go back ...Michael J.

Hey Carlos,Oh man. I'm sorry about my reply earlier. For some dumb reason I thought you were speaking of the standaone GNS 530. Anyway, I'm really glad you like your new Meridian. That's an aircraft I don't have but maybe I'll buy it sometime in the future.Once Again.. Sorry!Jim

I'm very glad you like it a lot and my advise was worth it! It may be not obvious at first, especially given the number of "praise for xxx aircraft" floating around here from time to time, and little for the Meridian...but once you taste it, you REALLY know, as you putted so elequently, there ARE outstanding simulations, and there are attempts to.You certainly will like to watch out for this upcoming release:http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_post...p?TID=6261&PN=1(looks like from the pictures as one of the greatest add-on for the Meridian! and of course can be retrofitted in any of your favorite aircraft!)Now, maybe it is time to add in you sig one of the following: http://www.reality-xp.com/community/users.htm:-)

That radar looks great!Wow!http://mywebpages.comcast.net/geofa/pages/Animation1.gif