• The C-5B panel (2D) •

The working place of a C-5B captain. Take your seat and fly!

View of the panel

This new panel is significantly improved in detail and the the artwork, in particular concerning the OH-panel including the ati-icing systems. Austin has fulfilled my request for an ice-detection system, which is now installed. Instruments which are mounted in the C-5B as well as in the C-141 have now been assigned the same functionality. Both aircraft are now on the same level of qualtity.

The Engine Fire Extinguishers are operative now. Do not expect an engine to work again after using the fire extinguisher!

I regret, but the designated night panel had to be temporarily omitted for XP 8, since I am not happy with new XP technology in this aspect, which makes it unavoidable to manually doublicate and rename almost 1.400 files for the LIT instruments, apart from repainting them.

The panel is based on an artwork composed of several high quality real life photographs. Although a flight simulator panel is always a compromise between realism and unavoidable consessions to functionality, this panel is extremely close to the real thing.

A legend is available on the rear view and certainly in the POH. A table of speed limits, AOA and flap settings is visible on the right-rear-view.

Like any military plane, the C-5B has some special systems either being classified or at least not being supported by x-plane. It is equipped with an aural and visual ground proxsimity warning, Electro-opticals sensors to scan 360° of the horizon for enemy threats, flare to desoriantate heat seeking missiles, and decades before the first GPS satellites were built, the Galaxy was widely independant from terrestric navigational aids. The aircraft is equipped with a triple Inertial Navigation System (INS), originally a miniaturized derivate of what nuclear powered submarines already had many years earlier. It works precise enough, even after crossing an ocean, to lead the pilot to final approach of any airport within the aircraft's range until aquiring the ILS signal of the respective runway. Nevertheless the inertial position can be updated in-flight by aquiring a TACAN signal, as long as the elevation angle is less than 30 degrees. VOR is used for this purpose and for ILS approach, but I could not detect an ADF on the panel. - Since x-plane does not have INS, I installed a FMS on the center control, which in fact does not look much different. INS will be replaced by 2 Honewell Embedded Global Positioning Systems during

RERP modernization.The actual XP limit of 300 objects per panel restricts the placement of additional items.