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Best freeware or payware a/c featuring backlit gauges?

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I am looking for an a/c that features a full complement of backlit gauges - can anybody please advise?Thanks Barry

>I am looking for an a/c that features a full complement of>backlit gauges - can anybody please advise?Real Air Siai Marchetti SF260!Marco

"Society has become so fake that the truth actually bothers people".

>>I am looking for an a/c that features a full complement of>>backlit gauges - can anybody please advise?>>Real Air Siai Marchetti SF260!>I just took this one last evening --- SF260edited for reduced pic

Ah-HA!! That was what I was looking for! So much better than the default style panel lighting. Any others?Barry

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>Ah-HA!! That was what I was looking for! So much better than>the default style panel lighting. Any others?Well, the Socata TB20GT has been in the AVSIM Library for nearly two years now, and actually pioneered VC Gauge Backlighting use for freeware releases. Now that the method(s) have been published, any freeware developer has the option to include them, should they wish... ;)

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FSD aircraft have great gauge backlighting, both 2D and VC. They were among the first to implement this on their Cheyenne, and it still is one of the best backlit gauges panels IMO.Dreamfleet panels are very good in this respect too.Best,Martijn

>>Well, the Socata TB20GT has been in the AVSIM Library for>nearly two years now, and actually pioneered VC Gauge>Backlighting use for freeware releases. Now that the>method(s) have been published, any freeware developer has the>option to include them, should they wish... ;)Well Bill, some of us were able to learn the method from you and 'cuz I can only speak for one - at least one is very grateful for what you did for the community in this 'department' :)tom

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Thanks, Tom. You are most welcome. Others have taken the method(s) I exposed to freeware developers and have improved upon them, and for that I am grateful! It's such a joy to have properly illuminated gauges in the VC! :)

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