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	How to Add a GPS Modifying Panels - Lesson #1

Lesson #1, How to add a GPS to your aircraft

Lesson #2, Adding other things to your Panel

Lesson #3, Adding Nav Panels

Lesson #4, Add or change your Mini-Panel

For this example, we are going to add a GPS window to the Wright Flyer. Yes, this is a silly thing to do but it is just ment to show how it can be done.

You don't need to exit Flight Sim to make these changes.
Simply select the aircraft again to see the results.

Go to the panel folder of the aircraft that you wish to modify and make a backup copy of the panel.cfg file.

Open the panel.cfg file in a plain text editor such as NotePad.

This is what you will see.

// Panel Configuration file
// Wright Flyer
// Copyright (c) 2002 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

[Window Titles]
Window00=Main Panel
Window02=Mini Panel
window03=GPS

[Window00]
file=wright_flyer_background.bmp
size_mm=1024, 768
position=7
visible=1
ident=MAIN_PANEL

gauge00=Wright_Flyer!anemometer,    850, 260
gauge01=Wright_Flyer!clock,         886, 442
gauge02=Wright_Flyer!distance,      886, 552

[Window02]
position=7
size_mm=228,105
child_3d=1
background_color=0,0,0
ident=MINIPANEL

gauge01=Wright_Flyer!clock,           0, 1
gauge02=Wright_Flyer!distance,      123, 0

[Window03]
BACKGROUND_COLOR=0,0,0
size_mm= 456 , 378 
windowsize_ratio=0.7
position= 8 
visible=1
ident=GPS_PANEL

gauge00=fs9gps!gps_500, 0, 0

The RED is what we are adding.

If you prefer a GPS, AutoPilot or some other window that you have in another aircraft, simply copy the information from the panel.cfg file for that aircraft.
visible=1 will show the item when you load the aircraft. If you want it off when you start, set visible=0
Important! Remember to keep the window numbers organized. The Window##= must be the same as the [Window##] label and you can't have two windows defined with the same number.

This is what you should see

You can "right-click" on the GPS and "Un-Lock" it so you can move and resize it.

Adding other things to your Panel- Lesson #2