Anybody care to post a screen shot of where they have placed the ADV display window on the PIC panel?I'm having trouble finding a place to dock the window where it's sized properly to see all the options yet doesn't cover any of my instruments.Thanks!

Greetings Murfster :)Here does for me -http://www.dmcity.com/uploads/pic_advdisp.jpg

Thanks Dean!One of the places I hadn't tried. :-)

Hi,I do it like this. I don't use the RMI VOR/ADF indicator normally, so I choose to integrate the gage with the panel. The Minicp panel works well in place of the data plate.John

John, this may be a dumb question, but here goes anyway. When you say "integrate the gauge with the panel" is there a way to perminately install the adv and minicp on a panel so that you don't have to move the adv around all the time when it disappears. This happens quite frequently even when it is docked and saved. I use FSPanel studio.Thanks,Don Whitfieldhttp://ftp.avsim.com/dcforum/User_files/3df969a06a98783d.gif

Hi Don,What I actually meant by integrated is, looks like it belongs amongst the other gauges. ie-color,text,location,etc. As far as the adv display moving around after losing it or changing panels, I have not experienced that. Once docked and saved as you mentioned, it remains correctly positioned on various panels as per the adv display insructions. Not sure why yours would not stay in place. I thought a saw a post where someone included the adv display as part of a gauge file they created, which enabled them to call the display up as required. This would certainly lock it more firmly to a panel and it could be hid when not in use. As far as the minicp, It is an .exe that remembers it's position on the display, so it needs repositioned for each different panel if trying to place it in a specific position on each of the panels. If I use the same panel on successive flights, minicp remains in the correct position as long as the screen resolution remains the same. There is probably a way to make it a gauge, but I am not familiar with a process to accomplish that.John

Thanks, John,FS2002 normally starts with the ADV display docked where I have saved it in the plane I am flying. Unless I am flying a previously saved flight plan, I go through the process of creating a flight plan with FSN, saving it to FS2002, loading the plan, loading the minicp, loading FSMeteo, and then Radar Contact, back to FS2002. Sometimes all I have to do is click on FS002 on the bar and it will restore. Most of the time I have to right click on it and hit restore to bring it back up. This happens quite frequently and when it does the adv display is gone. When shutting down, I close out FS2002 and then try to shut down RC. Almost every time, I have to right click to close it. I then get the perverbial message to "send the message to Microsoft". Have no problem closing out FSMeteo without having to right click on it to do so. I am using Windows XP Pro if that has anything to do with it. I have tried loading the programs in different sequences to see if it will cure the problem. The simulator flys ok, but this problem is very annoying and the event log is full of the incidences of having to shut down in this manner. What am I doing incorrectly? Sure need some help on this!!!Thanks,Don http://ftp.avsim.com/dcforum/User_files/3df969a06a98783d.gif

Hi John,Found the answer to my problem in Peter Dowson's FSUIPC Doc's for the new 2.95 version. (Didn't look at the earlier version's, it may be there also). Used Jose Oliveira's Run Options edit file - new dated November 2002 thinking I might use the close option. However, all I had to do is edit the FSUIPC.ini file and add the following lines under [Programs]. I believe you can run as many as eight external programs. It opens FS2002 and then opens the others and puts them on the task bar. You can toggle back and forth very easily. When you shut FS2002 down, it automatically shuts down the other programs. Have tried it on several planes. Now my adv stays in place and I don't have any problems as I described to you before!!Thanks for your interest in helping me. Maybe someone else with the same problem will read this thread.[JoystickCalibration]FlapsSetControl=0ReverserControl=66292AileronTrimControl=0RudderTrimControl=0[Programs]runIf1=READY,KILL,C:Program FilesFS_Meteofs_meteo.exerunIf2=READY,KILL,C:Program Filesrcv30rcv3.exerun3=C:Program FilesMicrosoft GamesFS2002MODULESMiniCPMiniCP.exeDon Whitfieldhttp://ftp.avsim.com/dcforum/User_files/3df969a06a98783d.gif

I omitted this, but the run strings go under the header Programs after the last entry on the above message.Donhttp://ftp.avsim.com/dcforum/User_files/3df969a06a98783d.gif

glad you figured it out. looking around other add-ons is always a good first step in troubleshooting.whenever someone else reports the problem you were having, will you help them with the solution. i'm afraid this one will not make it to my long term memory ;-)

And about A320 from PSS??Tks

It works with all aircraft and external add-ons! Don Whitfieldhttp://ftp.avsim.com/dcforum/User_files/3df969a06a98783d.gif

JD, It will be my pleasure!Don Whitfieldhttp://ftp.avsim.com/dcforum/User_files/3df969a06a98783d.gif

No Don, Thank you for discovering the auto start/shutdown feature of FSUIPC. This I was not aware of, and works great. Always was a pain opening evrything separately and then closing.Thanks again, Merry ChristmasJohn