How to create your
cockpit panel layouts
In FsClient, you can select your
panels from a list. By default, there are a few present. By pressing
the New acft button, you can select a panel from the library, give it
an aircraft name and open it from the list. Using the setup button,
you can create the layout you want. More details are in the Howto section.
From the second list you can select the subpanel you want to display on
this particular PC. This list contains different configurations, like
basic flight instruments, engines, radio etc.
Please note that you will
have to do the
same in FsXpand, or FsXpand will not be able to make FsClients load
the appropriate panel. FsXPand
will send your selection to the clients
so they know which panel to display (you may not want to load a panel for every FsClient you have
running).
Although FsXPand has no panel of its own, it will need the extra
aircraft added for this purpose (and for the assignments of stick axes
and buttons you may
have connected to
your main PC as well as and
sound edits).
Whenever you edit your panel, the result is saved. If you want to
return to the original, just create a new one from the library
templates as just described.
So, FsXPand panels consist of a set
of selected gauges, positioned and sized at will. But while the PFD and
ND displays seem to be panels, they actually are just a gauge (be it a
complex one). That is why you can use a PFD and an ND on one panel.
Typical panel layouts
These are no longer available
for download, but they are included. Click
on the
image to enlarge.
737NG Primary Flight Display and Navigational Display
737NG EICAS configuration
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747 EICAS configuration
The surrounding frame can be switched off on all
panels, this is an example. Use your own frame bitmap if this is not
what you want.
Fokker 100 EICAS configuration
The surrounding frame can be switched off on all panels,
this is an example. Use your own frame bitmap if this is not what you
want.
Classic 2-engine piston
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Modern 2-engine piston
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Classic 2-engine jet
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1-Engine piston
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Screenshots
These pictures show some of the possibilities with FsClient. Set
appearance of gauges, panel background color etc.
You may want pine....
or beech....
or redwood......
care
for a square?
crack a nut....
some like
their engines this way.