I downloaded this freeware panel a few weeks ago and finally got around to take a flight with it today. This panel has a fully working FMC for which I only have rudimentary skills and knowledge of operation. So on my flight today, I relied on the conventional autopilot to get me to my destination. However, along the way I ran into trouble using conventional wisdom to invoke both IAS and Heading settings. I intially set my target speed for 250 kts and heading of 205. I enabled the auto throttle and flight director. When I rose above 10k feet, I reset the speed setting to 320 kts. Nothing happened. Aircraft did not accelerate. I also changed to a new heading and clicked LNAV. Again, nothing happened. No change in direction. Other functions on the AP worked OK. I did use an IFR flight plan.

 

I'm wondering if the FMC, which I didn't program, would be causing these settings not to repsond to changed numbers. I went back to the panel folder in hopes of finding some instructions, but there were none. Now it is possible inadvertently deleted any instructions file after installing the panel, but I doubt it.

I don't know who created the panel so I can't ask for further assistance. No readme files in the panel folder. There are 5 different panel cfg files with this panel!

 

I've attached a screen shot in hopes that someone may identify it and lead me to some operational instructions.

 

Thanks

Edited October 30, 201213 yr by firehawk44
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According to the panel, nothing is running. Look at all the yellow items in the PFD. You are not going to go anywhere without those working. Plus it states your main battery has been discharged. You will need to reconnect the APU after being towed back to the gate....

 

Best regards,

Jim

Hightower,

 

This looks like Greg Wilson's JB777 panel. I believe the latest version's file name is jb777panel_rel_1_032.zip. It is an excellent freeware panel. I don't believe there are any other freeware panels for a 777 that have this good an FMC.

 

You can look at the files on Avsim here:

http://library.avsim...php?DLID=167467

and download the whole thing from Avsim here:

http://library.avsim...php?DLID=167467

 

It does come with extensive instructions and installation instructions. It is meant for Project Opensky/Skyspirit2012 777s in FSX. If you want the virtual cockpit, which does work with this panel, you need the older Opensky VC model rather than the Skyspirit2012 model.

 

It is possible that your autopilot was unresponsive because your FMC didn't have basic information such as gross weight, flap settings or takeoff V Speeds, your hydraulics weren't on or some similar issue. This panel is meant to be flown with the FMC and other systems activated. (That's what all the yellow EICAS messages are about.)

 

I suggest you download it again, read the installation and flying instructions carefully, and then give it a try. It comes with a step-by-step sample flight.

 

However you can't program flight plans from scratch. You need to use an FSX flightplan, loaded in the usual way through Flights>flightplanner. They will then show up in the FMC.

 

If you don't want to learn to use the FMC, I suggest that you find a simpler freeware 777 panel, of which there are quite a few.

 

Hope this helps,

Mike

If you want the virtual cockpit, which does work with this panel, you need the older Opensky VC model rather than the Skyspirit2012 model.

 

Mike, would that be the older FS9 native model or is there an FSX version with VC?

 

Thanks,

Jim

Jim,

 

I am pretty sure there are no FSX models or even updated FS9 models (Skyspirit2012) that have VCs. However the FS9 Project Opensky models work fine, except that you can't get the new cabin lighting or new fuel truck & fuel port opening & closing.

 

Here is a link for Skyspirit2012 models.

http://ssp.cyber-nin...77V2Update.html

 

I was about to say that you will need to find the older Opensky models on Avsim in full aircraft packages, as I don't know where else they can be found now. You can look in the zipdive for models that start with OS77... and have VC in them. If the model name starts with SSP77... it won't have a VC.

 

However I just found this link that appears to have the Opensky models for FS9 including VC.

http://poskyarchive.com/

 

Mike

Much appreciated Mike, I was not having much luck finding an FSX native model with the VC and I guess that explains why, lol. I had a go at getting one of the old FS9 777s working in FSX over the weekend without much luck, mainly the "glassdirt" effect was flickering so bad overtop of the gauges that it was unflyable. I was a hardcore 2D panel guy for years but I'm kind of a VC convert now. I can't live without the VC I'm afraid so I gave up and removed everything. I see this JB panel download contains a $vc_02.bmp which I think is the texture that was giving me the flickering problem so maybe I'll give it another try with the JB panel over the coming weekend. Hopefully the supplied .bmp is included to cure the flickering problem. Thanks again for your help.

 

Jim

According to the panel, nothing is running. Look at all the yellow items in the PFD. You are not going to go anywhere without those working. Plus it states your main battery has been discharged. You will need to reconnect the APU after being towed back to the gate....

 

Best regards,

Jim

 

Thanks Jim. The pic I took was with out engines started. I sent you a PM about this panel. Mike 777 I think hit it on the nose when he said the FMC needs to be programmed for other systems to function properly.

 

Thanks all for your feedback and now I at least know where I found it!

the "glassdirt" effect was flickering so bad overtop of the gauges that it was unflyable.

 

I just took a look at my FSX setup for both the basic Opensky panel and the JB panel, and in both of them the gauge "gauge00=Pky_glassdirt!Pky_glassdirt, 0,0,1024,1024" is commented out by putting "//" in front of it, like this:

"//gauge00=Pky_glassdirt!Pky_glassdirt, 0,0,1024,1024"

Or you can just delete the whole entry. I don't have the flickering problem and in one of the panels I have a note that this commenting out of the gauge eliminates flickering in FSX - perhaps I got that from the Opensky or Skyspirit people. The texture might be doing something else.

 

Just reactivated this gauge in the JB panel as an experiment, and all six glass cockpit displays are flashing like crazy!

 

Mike

The texture might be doing something else.

 

It is, the texture I was thinking of is actually $vc_03.bmp not $vc_02.bmp. I think the included $vc_02.bmp texture is modified in some way to use a different gauge or something, it's not the dirt overlay texture that I thought it was. I did try commenting out the glassdirt gauge last weekend but for some reason I still got the flickering. Not sure what's going on there as I have another 777 that uses yet another panel and I'm not seeing the flickering there either (I'm just not crazy about the panel is all). That panel also has the glassdirt gauge commented out. I don't get it, but oh well :smile: I downloaded the JB panel last evening, I'll give it a go over the weekend and let you know how I came out. Thanks again.

 

Jim