I just recently installed Mike's great C-130 and Ken's detailed panel for that aircraft and am coming up with a couple of wee problems.For the aircraft, fuel and payload data is as follows:Empty Weight = 83,000 lbsMax. Gross Weight = 155,000The default downloaded payload is 5,630 lbs.From what I can locate on the internet, the maximum spec payload is 45,000 lbs for the C-130.If I reduce my fuel load to 40% and try to use a payload of anything over somewhere between 20,000 and 25,000 lbs the aircraft CG is way out of whack and rotates on its tail. I am still well below MTOW. I have tried distributing the payload between "station one" and "payload" and that doesn't seem to make any difference either. The second question deals with the engine gauges in Ken's panel. The torque and Prop RPM gauges are reversed. (Increased prop pitch primarily reduces torque while RPM remains about where it was, and Increased throttle has a primary effect on RPM, not torque).I don't have another four engine turboprop plane with similar gauges, but I did replace the number one and two engines with the gauges from the PSS Dash 8. They responded correctly while the number 3 and 4 engines still reacted in reverse.I am posting this on Mike's forum as well, but I do not get any results for Ken as an author on the forum's I have searched so far.Has anybody else already gone down this road and found a solution?Thanks:RTH

On the off chance that someone else might be interested, after kind replies and/or emails from Mike and Ken, I believe the following conclusions are worth consideration for this fine bird and panel.Mike informed me that his primary loading for the C-130 is done in "Station 1". I loaded 40,000 lbs in this station with 5,000 lbs in "payload" and a 170 lb passenger in "front passenger". I then filled her up with 44.5% fuel for MTOW and she taxied, took off, and flew beautifully (Just like Mike said she would). I by mistake had excess loading in "Payload" in my previous tries which messed up the CG.On the gauges, Ken said that the panel was one of his first and was done long enough ago that he really did not still have it on his computer, but not remembering where he acquired the gauges, there was a possiblility something was suspect.I believe the torque gauges are for a ram jet, not turbojet application if that makes any difference (I am not an A&P). At any rate the defaults respond to prop control more than they do to the throttle which I am sure is backwards.With my tail between my legs, old blind Tom finally realized that the RPM gauges were for the turbines, not the props. I don't think there is anything wrong there and I left them as is.My solution was as follows:Mike Stone's torque gauges for the C-130 were a composite four gauge unit which did not fit well in Ken's panel, so I replaced them with Mike's C-133 gauges. They work great, although readings may be slightly low. I think they were with the defaults too however, and I am not sharp enough on panel design to know how to increase this reading without messing something else up.Being that the RKG fuelstat/speed gauge was included in the throttle window for Ken's panel which is somewhat redundant, I replaced the main panel fuel flow gauges with Mike's Prop RPM gauges out of the C-133 so that prop control could be implemented. They read a bit low, so I adjusted the gear ratio slightly to my own preference in the aircraft.cfg file. I am sure those well into panel and dynamic design know a better way to do this, but it seems to work in a satisfactory manner for this dummy.Also, for what it is worth, I replaced the combination RKG fuelstat/speed gauge with the RKG indepentent gauges. I prefer the small combination GS/TAS unit personally as indicated speed is on the panel gauge.If this interests anybody, I would be happy to give you the gauge names and installation perimiter data. The easiest thing would be simply to give you a copy of the the config files. My address is [email protected] flying:RTH