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Generic Military 2 Engine Panel

Two-engine jet fighter panel by Bob Chicilo uses the background from the F-35 panel by Chuck Dome. Most gauges are standard defaults, with a single exception, aligning with a general-use design for a versatile two-engine jet fighter.

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Colored Smoke System

Five color configurations arise from distinct light-function positions, including recognition, cabin, logo, wing, and cockpit, generating colored smoke trails from the gauge’s output. Parameter settings target the PC-7Astra variant, while the system remains installable on any aircraft; these smoke effects rely on aircraft light sources to drive visuals.

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Douglas DC-6 Panel

Jens B. Kristensen supplies a photorealistic panel for the Douglas DC-6, distributed as DC6_V10.ZIP, and the configuration for the virtual panel aligns with the model. Erwin Welker crafts the panel configuration, and ten camera definitions cover external, cockpit, and cabin views.

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ISDT Beech King Air B200 Virtual Cockpit

An enhancement for the Beechcraft Super King Air B200 by ISDT, credited to Joao 'Muas' Martins, adds a fully functional virtual cockpit with clickable instruments and animated switches. It shows matching wing views, gauges and sounds align to the King Air 350 default.

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Virtavia F-4 Pack 2 Panel

By Don Bodenstedt, this cockpit augmentation for Phantom II adds revised afterburners and a red VC light effect that aids night flying, with a basic HUD and a wide range of readouts. Automatic afterburner controls engage at 90% throttle, and about 100 gauges are provided for Phantoms and other era aircraft.

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Primary Flight Display (PFD) Updates

Three different aircraft types receive a correction to the radalt readings, and those readings become easily readable rather than obscured. By Dimitris Moschos, the change targets precision improvements for altitude indications on cockpit displays across the affected models.

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Camera Positions For POSKY Boeing 777-300

Three new positions appear for the B777-300 on each side, including wing view, engine, and wing positions. There is no wingview option in the Project Open Sky 777 family, leaving other angles as the focus, by Kaan Aktas.

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Added Views For The Bombardier Dash 8 Q400

The regional turboprop Q400 gains six exterior viewpoints and five cockpit perspectives via camera definitions created by Marc Renaud for Premier Aircraft Design, with angles located near the wings, engine nacelles, and tail. A new [Views] section is added to aircraft.cfg, drawing content from camera definitions.txt.

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F-4 Phantom 2D Panel

An F-4 Phantom cockpit panel presents a photo-based layout with over 40 custom gauges and night lighting, plus afterburner effects and a tailored Lights section in aircraft.cfg for updated Phantoms. It offers two installation options by renaming the F4Beta folder to panel or setting panel=F4Beta, and allows moving F4Gauges.cab to the gauges folder.

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Beech King Air 350 Doublescreen Panel

A two-monitor horizontal span panel provides an extra-wide cockpit view and uses a single instrument window to boost framerates. Created by Rob van Dijk as an extension for the Beechcraft King Air 350, it renames the original configuration to aircraft_org.cfg for the DoubleScreen variant.

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Citation Excel 560XL 2D Panel

The 560XL two-dimensional panel, based on the Aryus model, by Pierre Fasseaux, integrates modified and newly created XML gauges. It uses a panel.FP payload and provides time controls for GMT, Local Time, Flight Time, and Elapsed Time.

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Lockheed C-5 Galaxy Driveable Payload

From Alphasim, now Virtavia, this adds a driveable payload for the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, featuring five vehicles: Abrams, Leopard, Humvee, an old US truck, and a modern German fuel truck, with sounds and cargo-bay movement through front or rear ramps alongside added cameras for cockpit and external views.

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Boeing 747-400 New View

Two camera definitions by Victor H.M. Soriano create upper-deck left and right wing views for the 747-400, with InitialZoom set to 0.40 and InitialXyz coordinates -3.5, 3.25, 13.0 and 3.5, 3.25, 13.0, reflecting a concise virtual cockpit perspective.

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Panel For Modern Twin-Engine Turboprop

A generic cockpit panel targets contemporary twin-engine turboprops and relies solely on original gauges, credited to Enrique Medal. It requires five specific gauge files in the gauges folder, including Bombardier_CRJ_700.cab, fs9gps.cab, KingAir.dll, n_number_plaque.cab, and SimIcons1024.cab.

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VTOL/Hover Gauge For Wilco Tiltrotor

Version 4.0 introduces V(S)TOL and hover capability for a tiltrotor, with a gauge-coded FDE that overrides standard flight dynamics when nacelles rotate from the normal position. All ten nacelle positions, except the fully forward setting, fall under gauge control, adds a down-camera for Vertical Landings, and includes rotorwash dust.

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SMS Overland Airbus A330/A340 Gauge Upgrade Fix

Dimitrios Moschos presents a gauge upgrade fix for the A330/A340 cockpit, substituting the A340 2D panel with a fixed version. The file SMS_A330_A340_GAUGE_UPGRADE_V2.ZIP houses a more realistically sized auto brakes buttons and tunes the brakes selector gauge for this configuration.

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CS Weapon VC 3dHUD For Acceleration F/A-18

An integration places the 3dHUD cockpit overlay from CS Weapon into the F/A-18, by adjusting the eyepoint to -17.0, 0.0, 3.38 in the Aircraft.CFG. The package includes CSWeapon.XML under the FA-18 folder at 0.0,14.40,3.38,0.310 for swap-in, and updates the panel gauge to CSWeapon!hud3d at 569.8, 523, 462, 500 with 4 NOSCANLINES.

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Virtavia F-4 Phantom Package 1 Panel Fix

Don Bodenstedt delivers a VC panel fix for the Virtavia F-4 Phantom II first edition, adding a panel.DCBVx folder to replace the cockpit. Users modify aircraft.cfg to panel=DCBVx and copy the cab from the third edition’s panel folder; it does not work with the second edition and is unnecessary for the third.

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Sikorsky MH-53 Pavelow Panel

A panel with glass cockpit gauges for the Marines’ MH-53 Pavelow helicopter replaces the Dirty Dunken panel bitmap with round gauges, aligning with the Pavelow’s modern cockpit. The 16:9 widescreen bitmap is not tested for 4:3, and the mh53pavelow.zip by Erwin Welker requires MH-53J.cab gauges to function with other helicopters.

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F-86 Sabre Panel

This update revises a cockpit panel that originally accompanied an F-86 Sabre and is usable on any single-engine jet lacking a functioning panel. Sabres from older variants do not appear or show flaws such as missing canopy glass, so a complete aircraft cannot be supplied; image reference panelf86_3.JPG, by Bob Chicilo.

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