OK Sling… maybe in the last 2 years you are right.
All I know is that since I started using AirManager (maybe just over a year ago) the same 10 Premium panels have been available and the same 24 community panels. Although there are 1092 community Instruments, there are none at all for a huge number of planes… so yes… we need to make them ourselves.
However, making instruments in AirManager is not easy.
We need a software program that allows drag and drop, and automatic coding for functions… in a similar way to building a website.
As for getting “permission” to share instruments we have modified from the community folder… well OK… but in that case I think l will not bother sharing at all and keep my work for myself.
Who writes totally original code anyway?
Everything we write is something someone else has written before.
Many of the instruments I have modified have already been modified by someone else… and they have added their name as modifying the original Author’s work. I thought all I would have to do is leave the credits there and add my own name with a note about the modifications… See as I have done in the script for the Digital Fuel Gauge by Sim Innovations… which by the way, had some errors in the code that I fixed.
In regard to my Fuel Flow Gauge… 95% of that is mine. It is nothing like the original Dual Fuel Flow by William Hayes… although I used his Gauge to construct mine.
As I recall, William did not even have his name in the script (I would have to go back and check the original)
Anyway… I have not just “shared” these instruments with the community.
From reading you, I thought you might be the best person for me to run these instrument by so you could do whatever was best.
But like I say, if it is going to be a hassle, I will keep my mouth shut and just enjoy my own SIM.
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So finally, here are a couple pictures of the PNG transparencies I created today for the Pop Out digital instruments in the Diamond DA 40 TDI.
Not perfect close up, but they look fine from the seat position.
