DB2 is a simple dashboard utility for MSFS with a few readouts and functions. I wrote it for the way I fly MSFS and thought I'd share it with the FS community. This is the second dashboard I made for my sim. (Thus the ‘2’ in the name.)
Readouts
- Ground elevation
- Height Above Ground Level
- Ground Speed
- Latitude and Longitude
- Indicated Altitude
- Vertical Speed
- Autopilot target altitude
- Flaps angle
- Left and Right Brake
- Wind direction and speed
- Outside air temperature
- g-‘force’
- Sim Rate
Optional Extra Readouts
- Piston Engine #1 output power
- Piston Engine #2 output power
- Propeller #1 beta Applicable to constant-speed (variable pitch) props.
- Propeller #2 beta
- Angle of Attack
- Fuel Flow, or consumption rate
- Fuel Range Estimate
- Fuel Duration Estimate
- Download speed [Experimental]
Indicator Lights
- Autopilot
- Parking brake
- Gear
- Auto Throttle (and accompanying ON/OFF tones)
- Reverse Thrust
- Stall (see documentation for details)
- Taxi Light
- Landing Light
Functions
- Copy Latitude and Longitude into clipboard (to paste into google maps or whatever)
- Simple TOC/TOD estimation, using current vertical speed and target altitude or user-provided
NOTICE: AAU1 broke the the A/T (Autothrottle indicator) when flying the updated Cessna Longitude. It seems the updated Longitude doesn't set the SimConnect variable that indicates the autothrottle is on anymore, so there's not a lot I can do to fix it.
---> System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: '.', hexidezimaler Wert 0x00, ist ein ungültiges Zeichen. Zeile 10, Position 1. (C:\Users\----\AppData\Local\DB2\DB2.exe_Url_oju4fb1gy3wd5ig05hmajgqo0c1cdceg\3.0.0.0\user.config line 10) ---> System.Xml.XmlException: '.', hexidezimaler Wert 0x00, ist ein ungültiges Zeichen. Zeile 10, Position 1.
hope this can be helpful.
6 months ago
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hnas99
7 months ago
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hnas99
A very good and simpel progam. I use it every flight in MSFS
1 years ago
RC034
Thank you!
1 years ago
Vizipok
Please could you tell me how you got a black back to the sign to the airport? I find it very difficult to make them out? Thank you.
2 years ago
Tobybton
A request.
Would it be possible to have this tool with metric and American measures? Most of us have forgotten what a foot looks like (except perhaps the one on the end of each of our legs), and a know is something used by boy scouts to hold two sticks together to use as their bed.
Seriously, there would almost certainly be many more users of this tool with the inclusion of metric measures (feet/meters.gallons/liters,Fahrenheit/Celsius, miles/kilometers.
Thank you in advance.
JohnG
2 years ago
thanks for the feedback. It certainly would not be hard to add those. There is an option for Celsius in version 2. I will consider adding feet / meters (for altitude), US gallons / liters (for fuel), and nautical miles / kilometers (for distance,) as options for the next version. I have also fixed a few bugs and added a few new things since ver 2 release, so maybe after SU10 is out I may do a minor update.
2 years ago
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JohnG
great tool but some resizing is needed where the ils glideslope is showing.. some of it is cut off.. need so be wider
2 years ago
thanks for the feedback. Interesting ... I haven't experienced that. Does it cut off the text or the graphic? Wonder if it's a difference in screen resolutions. I'd be interested to see a screen shot.
2 years ago
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Caspy1Uk
It is a nice product but when I use the A/T it is irritating that at the moment the A/T is moving a sound is heard constantly. That it is that I will not use the product because you can't stop the sound. That is the only disadvantage of the product.
3 years ago
Sorry you experienced problems with the A/T on-off tones. It's not to supposed to sound continuously like that. It is supposed to only make the sound at the moment you engage or disengage A/T. Thanks for the feedback.
3 years ago
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slyfox
Would it be possible to add an AoA indicator, preferably numerical? Great tool, my landings are a lot better thanks to this addon
3 years ago
Yes actually -- I found myself wanting something to help me know when I'm approaching stall as well, so I've added something like that (among other things) in what may become the next release. No idea when it'll be done.
Glad to see others find this tool useful.
3 years ago
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Breytac
Thank you so much! I had missed using my AGL aid used in XP-11
3 years ago
w5amt
Can you add the joke position (pitch and roll)????
3 years ago
Are you joking ?
😉
3 years ago
PILOTscientist
Toninomex
3 years ago
dualznz
3 years ago
MSFLYER5856
3 years ago
Jorma1962
3 years ago
ThePilot871