FSX / P3D panel / gauge

FSX PBY Catalina Panel

PBY Catalina pilots get a refreshed virtual cockpit experience in FSX with improved panel bitmaps featuring head-over throttles and an authentic Catalina yoke, plus five internal, three external, and dedicated cockpit camera views. It also enables a configured smoke system using weapon effects and requires the Virtavia freeware Catalina download.

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Images & Screenshots

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A glass-enclosed aircraft nose section features two mounted machine guns and a view of water and shoreline through segmented windows.

A classic aircraft cockpit with analog gauges and overhead levers faces a landscape of lakes, hills, and scattered clouds under blue sky.

A machine gun is mounted inside a glass-domed tail section, overlooking the ocean and clouds with part of the aircraft visible.

A view looking down into an aircraft’s open bomb bay reveals structural details, bomb racks, and labeled canvas storage bags.

Panel bitmaps, cameras and weapon effects for the PBY Catalina from Alphasim, now Virtavia freeware. Requires direct download from Virtavia.com. The panel bitmap is improved by headover throttles and a typical Catalina yoke. There are five internal and three external aircraft view cameras plus one cockpit view. The smoke system is configured with weapon effects. Configuration by Erwin Welker.

Screenshot of Catalina panel.

Download and install one or both Catalina versions from Virtavia.com. There is a button above for the freeware site.

Copy and overwrite my panel.cfg and the Yoke.bmp into the panels. Attention: There ar 2 versions!

Due to the copyrights I did not include the original panel-bitmap from Alphasim. Please copy my Throttle-bitmap into the upper right corner of the panel-butmaps.

Copy all the lines from the file "cameras&smokesystem.cfg" somewhere into the aircraft.cfg; remove the original Smokesystem entries.

Copy the Effects into the main directory of FSX; overwrite YES.

That's all!

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File information

Filename

catalina-improvements.zip

File size

765.68 KB

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Access

Freeware

Content rating

Everyone

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How to install this mod

FSX / P3D panel / gauge

Extract the downloaded archive

Use 7-Zip (free) or WinRAR to extract the ZIP to a temporary folder. Don't install while still zipped — the simulator can't read inside ZIP files.
Place panel files

Panel files go inside FSX\SimObjects\Airplanes\{aircraft}\panel\. Back up the existing panel folder first.
Always read the included readme

Every mod ships with a readme.txt or README file. It tells you exactly where files go, what dependencies are needed, and any quirks specific to this add-on.

What’s inside this archive

The archive catalina-improvements.zip has 18 files and directories contained within it.

File Contents

This list displays the first 500 files in the package. If the package has more, you will need to download it to view them.

Filename/Directory	File Date	File Size
Cameras&smokesystem.cfg	10.28.12	4.51 kB
Effects	10.28.12	0 B
FSX_Wing_Guns.fx	10.28.12	10.48 kB
fx_ShellHit.fx	10.28.12	4.93 kB
File_ID.diz	10.28.12	391 B
for panel-PBY_Pnl	10.28.12	0 B
panel.cfg	10.28.12	6.76 kB
for panel-PBY_Pnl_early	10.28.12	0 B
panel.cfg	10.28.12	6.76 kB
Internal cameras (1).jpg	10.28.12	128.14 kB
Internal cameras (2).jpg	10.28.12	147.88 kB
Internal cameras (3).jpg	10.28.12	128.63 kB
PBY_Pnl_early.jpg	10.28.12	130.20 kB
Please insert bitmap Throttle into panel.bmp.bmp	10.28.12	334.19 kB
Readme.txt	10.28.12	1.90 kB
Yoke.bmp	10.28.12	1017.05 kB
flyawaysimulation.txt	10.29.13	959 B
Go to Fly Away Simulation.url	01.22.16	52 B