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P3D v3 P-51D Mystery Gauge

BaiterOne

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I downloaded a freeware P-51 (for FSX) recently which only had a 3D cockpit panel. I usually fly a Stearman but I decided to take on the task (in my spare non-flying time) of trying to make a 2D cockpit for the Mustang.

I have completed most of the project in XML at this stage - mostly all dials rotate or move in some way, most switches flick on/off, most levers move up and down, and most of the aircraft functions are controlled by the switches and levers, with some on the joystick buttons. The graphics are somewhat dreadful as I suck at designing them - I have to download similar gauges from the internet and adapt them, but only for personal use.

My problem for which I seek help here concerns one gauge on the main centre panel for which I cannot find its use, pictured below. It appears to be a 2.25" gauge. Anyone know what it used to do? The gauge doesn't appear in the A2A or the DCS P-51's - I downloaded their manuals for some hints.

Anyway I still cannot fly the beast with any degree of certainty - everything happens so quickly, and the view out over the cowling in so restricted!!!


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Thanks, Walter
 
It looks like a wind drift gauge? I can’t find a reference online for you at the moment but recall seeing something similar in a museum. Some of the fighters were used ahead of the bombers to get some target info for ‘precision’ strikes.
 
WarpD, how the heck did you know that!!!

From the above information, the IFF gauge is obviously a relic of a bygone age, unusable in modern times, so I might just obliterate it from the panel altogether and put something more modern in its place. It would be reasonably easy I think to replicate its functions in XML if it had a real use in the aircraft. Since I have thrown out all the old Mustang radio gear already and use a Trig TY91 Radio and a Trig TT21 Transponder, the IFF Contactor Timer would be a little out of place.

I certainly won't be flying the aircraft as a WWII aircraft, more of a modern restoration and in my case showing people how to crash ignominiously into the ground at 400mph!

Thanks for putting me on the right track,

Walter
 
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