Tupolev Tu-154 Panel Version 2.0 for Microsoft Flight Simulator 98

by Matthias Lieberecht

Lieberecht@cw-net.de



August 15, 1999



Thank you for download this panel. This update has nothing from my

first Tu-154 Panel. I have completely reworked the Panel-Bitmap, which

is much clearer now and add a lot of new Gauges. Now all Gauges are

placed and work like in the real Tu-154. Don't wonder about the many

Altimeters because this is realistic. The Tu-154 contents a lot of

them. Together with the Navigator Panel and Flight Engineers Panel

I've counted more than 10 Altimeters in this Aircraft. Vertical Speed,

Altimeter, Radioalt and Airspeed are metric Gauges but you will

recognise that there are also two western style altimeters below the

Radioalt. The original Tu-154 has them too.

The Flight Engineers Panel is an exact copy of the real one. All

Gauges you will find there are placed like in the Tu-154. The right

Panel is placed right beside the Panel you can see in the main window.

Nearly all switches and warning lights on the main panel have working

functions. To know what which Gauge is placed for, take a look at the

file Instructions.jpg and read the Instructions below.

At the moment I've just designed the panel with Latin letters. But

I'm going to create a separate Version in Cyrillic letters, which 

will be an update for this panel.





Note:



I couldn't test the panel with the monster 3D-card. So I don't know

if it works correct with it. Sorry :-(





Installation:



You need to have installed Flight Simulator FS98 Converter.

Unzip the gauges.zip to your Flightsim main Gauges directory. If

you already have some of the gauges you don't need to delete them.

They should be the same.

Unzip the Panel.zip and replace the panel.cfg file to the panel

folder of your favourite aircraft. For more reality use a Tupolev

Tu-154.

Unzip click.wav into the sound directory of FS98 (not into the sound

directory of your aircraft!).



Some of the required gauge files are shipped with FS98. If you renamed

or deleted one of these original files you could send me an Email with

a short description, which instrument not correct work. I will send you

another config and gauge file.





Instructions:



Most of the Info you need could be found in the Jpeg File

Instructions.jpg. When you shut down the engines with the fuel pumps

below the N2 Gauges, you will recognise that the Engine Status lights

goes out and the Oil Warning lights turned on. These are the warning

lights left beside the Airspeed. To start the engine it is important

to switch on the fuel pumps before using the ignition switches. If

you have switched on the pumps (the lights turns off) the Oil lights

turn off and then the Engine Status lights turn on. Do not start

before these lights are on otherwise the engines have not enough power

for take off.

Another important thing is the Auto-arm/Auto-deploy Spoiler. This Gauge

will automatically deploy the spoilers when the aircraft touches down.

Don't arm the spoilers when on ground. You can see the status of your

spoiler when take a look at the Spoiler Light left beside the Yaw

switch. You could not take off, when the spoilers are armed or set.

Use the # key to put in the spoilers.

Now it's time that you take a look at the Instructions.jpg!





Credits:



I would like to thank:

Andrei Pechenkin for the Tu-154 photo's.

Vadim Serebrenikoff for the Tu-154 photo's.

Max Roodveldt for some of the metric Gauges.

Oscar Nava and Max Roodveldt for his Airspeed Gauge.

David Durst and HGHB for the Fuel Temp Gauge.

Alex (Backfire) Bashkatov for the AOA Gauge.

The HGHB Team for some of the used Gauges.

Stefan Geissler who designed a lot of the Gauges.

Christian Koegler and John Hirsch for the Overspeed and Stall Warnings.

Glenn Copeland for his Parkbrake Button.

Dai Griffiths for a lot of the Warning lights and the Spoiler Gauge.

Paul Golding and the FPDA Team for some of the used Gauges.

Toni di Blassio for his Reverse Warnings.

Richard Probst for his Autopilot.





My other Russian Panels:



- An2-pnl.zip           Panel for the Antonov AN-2

- Mlan12pn.zip          Panel for the Antonov An-12

- An124pnl.zip          Panel for the Antonov AN-124

- AN14_PNL:ZIP          Panel for the Antonov AN-14 and Berijew Be-12

- An24pnl.zip           Panel for the Antonov AN-24

- Il114pnl.zip          Panel for the Ilyushin IL-114

- IL62pnv2.zip          Panel for the Ilyushin IL-62

- Il76-pnl.zip          Panel for the Ilyushin IL-76 TD/MF

- Mlil96pn.zip          Panel for the Ilyushin IL-96M/T

- Tu204pnl.zip          Panel for the Tupolev Tu-204

- Yak42pnl.zip          Panel for the Yakovlev Yak-42

- Mlyakpnl.zip          Panel for the Yakovlev Yak-40



Feel free to send feedback or comments. I'm looking forward to

your Mails to know in which part of the world this panel is used.



Matthias Lieberecht

Lieberecht@cw-net.de