A new panel for the A380 2D cockpit

[ACSoft]

Dear members of this Community !

Maybe some of you will remember me, as I am a former FS98 to FS2004 panel developer.

Is is a long time I was looking, from time to time, for a nice Airbus A380. Normal, I am a "heavie's lover !!! Some of you may remember my popular freeware creation: my MD-11 panel & tunings. I think I found it now !!! It is the wonderful A380 from Project Airbus.

What has seduced me also a lot with this realisation, it is the integration of the incredible avionic system vasFMC. When you have stepped up, to fly Aircraft simulation like the PMDG aircrafts, you cannot anymore come back to the more simple "standard MSFS avionic". Even my own old lady MD-11, I did not fly her anymore !!!

I had only one regret, when discovering the marvellous work of Project Airbus team, it is that the version with the virtual cockpit, didn't also had a 2D cockpit. So, it wasn't very long before I started to investigate and see what I can do, even if I have stopped to develop for FS since the time of the FSX publication. But when you got the virus, you don't need much "push" to restart again !!! LOL !!!

I started first with the meaning to add a 2D cockpit to the Virtual Cockpit version, so I can fly this hudge "monster",
like I am accustomized with my PMDG MD-11 (all intense work in 2D cockpit, only going into the VC, during cruise, just for the pleasure to look around). But, while doing this, I hit big problems and came to the conclusion that IT IS,
PROBABLY NOT POSSIBLE TO BUILD SUCH A VERSION WHICH WILL RUN WELL AND HAVE GOOD PERFORMANCES. Almost not on my actual PC.

This is why, finally, I started to build this panel for the version without VC (also call wingview version), but which
include the great vasFMC Airbus like avionic system. To fly this pure jewel with the default MSFS 747_400 panel, would be just a crime !!! LOL !!!



You can download this additional panel from my site page:

http://www.acsoft.ch/Flight_Simulator/A ... panel.html

Hope that this first step in this modest development might be useful for some of you !

Any comments & remarks are welcome !

Alain Capt
ACSoft Productions

[jensi76pa380]

Dear Alain Capt,
thank you for presenting & providing your 2D panel.
Since I love PA's VC (in conjunction with the gauge version of vasFMC) also during takeoff / landing, I just inserted your EICAS and door gauge into my A380 aircraft.
Once again, thanks a lot for your EICAS and door gauges!
I have one wish:
Can you please tell me the difference between TAT and SAT?
How are these variables exactly calculated (from which physical values do they depend)?
Why are these variables relevant / how do I use them?
Thanks a lot for explaining me the background.
Kind regards
jensi76pa380

[ACSoft]

Hi Jensi,

SAT is the "Static Air Temperature", which is the true temperature of the air around an aircraft.

TAT is the "Total Air Temperature", which is what is measured by the aircraft sensor.

When air hits a temperature sensor, kinetic energy produced is turned into heat. Therefore, at rest (no kinetic energy), TAT and SAT are just the same, but at speed, TAT is always greater than SAT.

This relationship is a function of Mach number and the characteristics of the probe being used, therefore you can calculate SAT if you know the speed of the aircraft and the probe factor (sometimes known as the recovery factor).

Here you can found the mathematical formula which I applied in the gauge:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_air_temperature

Now, why are these variables relevant and how do you use them, this is something I cannot answer, being myself just a modest virtual pilot !!! Maybe someone else will answer to this question !

Alain Capt

[777beats340]

Nice work!