skyscraper

I had a St. Bernard as a kid. When I was eight my little sister was born and Barney had to go He had a little too much energy, hair and slobber to be in the same room with an infant. My parents gave him to the town butcher so I'm sure he had a quite a happy life. He must have felt like he died and went to dog bone heaven. I cried for quite a while when the butcher came to take my pal away, but my Dad who was an electrical engineer at IBM converted his pretty large dog house into a space capsule, complete with a panel full of flashing lights, dials and switches that actual could fire retro rockets and everything. At least in my mind.. Well, to go along with my new baby sister (who was supposed to be my kid brother but that's another story of 8 yr old woe) I already had two older sisters. So my capsule became a place where I could just shut the hatch, light the fire and get away from it all. Just me and all the space I could imagine. I don't know Bill being an only child or an eight year old in the 60's with three sisters. I think it would have been a toss up... But, many hours in my dogs house, I mean Fireball XL-5 (thanks Dad). In a five gallon ice cream container helmet and foil spacesuit (thanks Mom). During the age of Gemini. My life with three sisters was bearable.

... and oh what a place that would be indeed Fr. Bill. I can a l m o s t "imagine" that until I read on the front page of the morning paper that some folks couldn't. I've been to the blue yonder for countless hours upon days in a consequence of your and many others imaginations "flying" that Cessna, Beech or Boeing with less than nary a care except perhaps a stutter, OOM or CTD from replacing my overclocked imagination with a few too many sliders to the right Imagination has been essential both as a kid playing cops and robbers and in my post-childhood, making family and making buildings. I can't imagine life without imagination and the simplicity of this ad tickled mine like not many others. Thanks for everyones thoughts on this I have enjoyed the 'conversation".

My wife and I just moved from the US northeast to the southwest. Let's just call it a "pre-retirement, empty nest, time to live where we really want - move".. After numerous yard sales, donations, give-aways to family, friends and the Salvation Army not to mention trips to the "recycling" center we still had over ten tons of "stuff" to put on the conestoga wagons. A large majority of that (since most of our NE furniture simply couldn't "work" in the desert SW) were book-books, professional journals, CD's and record albums. We did recycle a ridiculous weight in magazines. I think we recycled another ten tons of stuff. So yes, from personal experience, moving the e-version of the "library" is much easier on the 'ol sacroiliac.. ...but that being said, there is nearly nothing like a good book-book in front of a mesquite fire here in the high desert. Don't even get me started on the mp3's our kids listen to on their phones vs. the sound from a nice thick slab of vinyl... Skyscraper

A clever piece of marketing in the hyper-digital age: B) http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/ikea-pokes-fun-at-apple-in-ad-for-latest-catalog/

Thanks Bert Of course those worked perfectly. :Doh: I would have sworn I looked for the gauge bitmaps in that directory while I was dimming down the panel night lighting but didn't see them, so the 10 min. fix took a few hours. The good news is the gauges are now dimmed down as well.

Hi Bert, In the spirit of "teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" I attempted to edit the nav/comm gauge bitmap myself using >Gauge >Edit selected Gauge >Edit Bitmap in FS Panel Studio. I edited the bitmap in Photoshop and saved. The modified bitmap shows nicely in the Bitmap Preview and the VCockpit01 window in Panel Studio which is saved and closed. Loading up the Skymaster in FSX their is no change to the gauge. This gauge appears to be embedded in RadioC337.dll. The FS Panel Studio Help does not shed any other light on this. What did I miss? I have some other gauges I would like to "clean up" if I can get this working. Thanks for all your help here.

Would love to know what the real thing sounds like. I wouldn't be surprised if there was more than one accurate voice over the years. Maybe what we have is how it sounds in the plane that Carenado modeled? Sound like the speaker is blown. I have the Flight Video Productions video of a King Air 350 (recommended) and the voice for the "500" is female. Not the same voice as the F1 Mustang though. Here is another video of a 90GT with EGPWS that has the male "caution terrain caution terrain terrain terrain pull up" at about 1:05 into the video. The GPWS was apparently upgraded in the newer model.

Bill Womack put together the definitive tutorial on Carenado repaints. I messed with it some but realized quickly i have neither the skill or the patience for repaints. http://forum.avsim.n...nting-tutorial/

Oops, my apologies for the typo. :sorry:

Hi Wycliff, Good point. To be on the safe side I inquired with Carenado to make sure prior to posting this texture mod and to be clear their is no hacking of code involved, this is a minor bitmap adjustment with all due credit to Carenado. As stated in their copyright that came with the product, they have no problem with with uploading modified textures. They do have a problem with uploading unmodified t extures. As I wanted to be sure that their copyright applied to interior textures and not just exterior repaints I sent them a support ticket and they responded immediately. I'm not sure this is true of all third party developers though so it is always prudent to get permission. Here is their response: Skyscraper, Apr 18 20:19 (CLT): We have been having a discussion on your forum at AVSIM regarding the lighting levels in the night VC in the King Air. I have tweaked CNA_int_1_night.bmp to dim the brightness of the highlights of that texture. Is it acceptable to share this modified texture with others? Your copyright clearly allows this for exterior repaints, but I wanted to be sure that cockpit textures could be shared as well. Otherwise, great work on the King Air. Carenado Support, Apr 18 20:26 (CLT): Yes no problem uploading any modified texture. What it is no allowed is uploading any original texture without modifications.

Happy it was useful for you. :good: Tweaking the "office" the way I like it is part of the hobby for me. I encourage the folks at Carenado go the last few miles to clean up the remaining issues. This would make a great flagship for them. They do seem to be listening... Brett

My pleasure. Thanks for the tip on the function of the third knob. I'll check that again. A simple diagram of what the functioning instruments and controls do (as provide with their earlier work) and more importantly which ones are INOP would save some frustration. :Idea: Not a deal breaker though as the info is usually available from folks here who have time in type or elsewhere online. Just part of the hobby for me...

Thanks for adding the finishing "touches"

Fixed the typos - Thanks ... and your welcome Brett

Here is a download link for the modified night VC panel texture seen in my earlier post. http://www.mediafire...ij99wb987pytn2l The file basically "dims" the lighting on the night VC panel with a modified texture. I use it with the mod in the OP by stckx. The overhead dome light can still be switched on an off if more light is needed. To install: Make a copy of CNA_int_1_night.bmp located in your ...\SimObjects\Airplanes\Carenado C90 King Air\Texture.Common folder and put it somewhere you can find it if you want to go back. Copy the file in this zip to the Texture.Common folder and over write as prompted. (you did make a copy, didn't you?) If you don't like the results just copy back the original file. If you have a copy of DXTBmp (free download from Softpedia) you can compare the modified file with the original Might be a bit too dark based on what I have seen on the web. But, I have never been in the real thing and the original seems to be too light. You can take the original file through DXTBmp into your favorite bitmap editor and season to your own taste.