Modifications Ms FSX, Lockheed Martin Prepar3D stock Mooney Bravo _________________________________________________________________ I did create some small enhancements for this rather old but still nice aircraft. Modifications are done without replacing original gauges in order to maintain the character of this Mooney M20M Bravo. Only small additions have been applied to make flying even more easier. See below about the details of the modifications, made and tested for Prepar3D v4. Origins of this aircraft model date back to Ms FS2004. It was converted to native FSX format for Ms FSX by the Microsoft Aces studio, and became by this also a stock aircraft in FSX. Later then Lockheed Martin made some changes to it and also converted it for 64-bits FS use as well, so it became a stock aircraft for Prepar3D. GENERAL: - Added extra liveries: Eagle, Mango, Red These liveries from internet has been made by several authors and I've slightly adapted *1). - Created an extra livery: Aces_FSX This livery is based on the aircraft paintings as in the Mooney picture in the file FSX Mooney Bravo.pdf - Created another extra livery: G-OKMA derived from the 'Aces FSX' livery but now in blueish color wth golden stripes. - Changed texture part of step strip on the right wing for all Mooney Bravo aircraft. - Expanded the text in the mooney_bravo_ref.htm file. *2) - Tried to re-arrange Bendix King Radio set in VC in order to get AP section higher for easier access during flights but this seems not to be done without issues because underneath the Bendix King radio set there are unused knobs (FS9 relics ?) who will stick out of the Radio sections when re-arranging Bendix King Radio set parts. So I've left the Bendix King Radio set order as original. - Added better Landing and Taxi lights. - Added real Pilot Operating Handbook in the Docs folder: Mooney M20M POH.pdf - Added real info about the Bravo in the Docs folder: Mooney M20__WIKI.pdf AIRCRAFT.CFG - Adjusted slightly VC Cameras for better views. - Added an extra VC camera called 'Instruments' showing the main gauges. - Changed eyepoint values in [Views] section. - Added extra Landing lights - Added extra Taxi lights - Slightly adjusted position of the Beacon light. PANEL.CFG CLASSIC: - Added automatic Anti-Skid gauge for preventing wheel blocking during brake actions. - Added CockpitSounds. - Made HSI gauge expandable with mouse, as it has no Tooltip text with gauge value. - Made VSI gauge expandable with mouse, as it has no Tooltip text with gauge value. - Made Airspeed gauge expandable with mouse, as it has no Tooltip text with gauge value. - Resized 2D Radios stack panel and added toggle button on it (Top Right side). - Added invisible toggle popup button for Bendix King Radio stack in VC on Audio segment (Top Right side). - Added invisible gauge over Annunciator gauge to expand Annunciator panel in 2D mode. - Resized GPS panel and added at the top right location a toggle button for the GPS panel.. - Added HDG Hold window gauge on Bendix King AP for 2D panel and VC instance. This gauge displays the AP Heading value and with this gauge you can also adjust the target Heading value. - Added AP Wing Level switch on Bendix King AP for 2D panel and VC instance. - Removed 2D panels: MAIN_PANEL *3), Overhead Panel, and Mini Panel. - Made Altimeter gauge expandable with mouse, as it has no Tooltip text with gauge value. - Made ADF gauge expandable with mouse. - Made Tachometer gauge expandable with mouse. - Tried to add Bendix_King_Radio!Bendix-King Radio AP in G1000 VC with no luck. (For that I guess model must be modified). PANEL.CFG G1000: - Added automatic Anti-Skid gauge for preventing wheel blocking during brake actions. - Added CockpitSounds. - Made Airspeed gauge expandable with mouse, as it has no Tooltip text with gauge value. - Made Altimeter gauge expandable with mouse, as it has no Tooltip text with gauge value. - Added invisible gauge over Annunciator gauge to expand Annunciator panel in 2D mode. - Added invisible gauge over G1000!PFD gauge to expand PFD panel in 2D mode (Left lower frame part). - Added invisible gauge over G1000!MFD gauge to expand MFD panel in 2D mode (Left lower frame part). - Added invisible toggle popup button for Bendix King Radio AP in VC on Audio segment (Red button Middle side VC). - Added HDG Hold window gauge on Bendix King AP for 2D panel and VC instance. This gauge displays the AP Heading value and with this gauge you can also adjust the target Heading value. - Added AP Wing Level switch on Bendix King AP for 2D panel and VC instance. - Removed 2D panels: MAIN_PANEL *3), Landing Panel, Backup Gauges, Overhead Panel, ECU, and Mini Panel. *1 The stock painting part of the wing step on the right wing is IMHO not so nice and can look like as if it has a tarmac texturing. I found it more visual attractive to paint that part with a dark gray color. So I did repaint that part for all the liveries in this archive including the stock liveries. For the 'Red' livery (Jason Steinke ) I did change a part so that the node is indeed red in VC view. For the 'Mango'livery I added a grey rectangle on the belly part of the fudelage in order to remove the color from the belly on the window frames. See for more info on painting the Bravo see file Liveries.txt in the Docs folder. *2 A backup of the original mooney_bravo_ref.htm file is located in the archive mooney_bravo_ref__ORIG.zip, which you can find in the Docs\Backup folder. *3 MAIN_PANEL is now empty when pressing F10 but can be used as a Mini Panel when uncommenting the gauges in the [Window00] section of the panel.cfg file (remove the // characters)/ If you want to fly the Mooney Bravo with a 2D cockpit then you have to do as follows: 0. As always make a backup of the configuration file(s). 1. Rename the Panel.cfg file. 2. Rename the Panel__FULL.cfg file to Panel.cfg. REVERT BACK TO THE ORIGINAL CONFIGURATION Panel.cfg: If you want the original Panel.cfg file then you have to do as follows: 0. As always make a backup of the configuration file(s). 1. Rename the Panel.cfg file. 2. Rename the PANEL__ORIG.cfg file to Panel.cfg. Aircraft.cfg: 0. As always make a backup of the configuration file(s). 1. In folder Docs\Backup there is the original Aircraft.cfg file in an archive with name: aircraft__ORIG.zip 2. Extract the file aircraft__ORIG.cfg and rename it to aircraft.cfg and then copy the file to the root of the aircraft folder. Flanker256, November 2022.