JELAIR Vspeed-gauge (with aural callouts) for FSX, 20130929)

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This software is FREEWARE and may not be included in any form of payware!
Freeware-addon designers can include it in their own freeware-addons if they like.
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This gauge has been successfully tested on the following type aircraft:

Boeing 737-200
Boeing 757-200
Boeing 747-123
Boeing 747-200

It should work with most standard commercial jetliners.

The auto-calculated Vspeeds depend on the aircraft's air-file, but are not really aircraft-specific as such. The Vspeed-values are average approximations for sim-use only, and are not necessarily true to the various individual real-life aircraft-specifications.

Using this gauge should give you good clean takeoff's at any weight and fuel-load setting.


The gauge is not for GA-aircraft, military or special-operation's aircraft. Only commercial jetliners (you are free to try it on any aircraft ofcourse, but don't expect it to work properly on others than those mentioned above, although it may.)

Enjoy!




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How to install this gauge into an FSX aircraft cockpit panel:

Look in the included SimObjects\Airplanes-folder for further info. There you will also find a modified panel for the default FSX Boeing-747 where the Vspeed gauge is included.



Make sure you copy the files to their right locations! You can do this in 2 ways:

#1: drag&drop the folders directly into you FSX folder

#2: copy the files manually. Here's where the files belong:

	"dsd_fsx_xml_sound.gau" belongs to the main gauges folder (where you probably have several thousand files located already)

The folder "JELAIR" (which is a sub-folder to the main gauges folder) can be copied, along with its contents, directly into the main gauges folder (it wont overwrite any of your own files).
2 files belong in this JELAIR sub-folder:
	"250x25_Vspeed_Background.bmp"
	"JEL-Vspeed.xml".


In the sound folder there is a sub-folder named: "JELAIR-sounds". Copy this folder, along with its contents, into your main sound-folder (none of your own files will be over-written)

6 files belong in this "JELAIR-sounds" sub-folder:
	"JELAIRsounds.cfg"
	"Vspeed_80knots.wav"
	"Vspeed_check.wav"
	"Vspeed_V1.wav"
	"Vspeed_V2.wav"
	"Vspeed_Vr.wav"

These are the aural callouts. If you want to, you can record you own voice and replace these files.

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How to operate the gauge when in the cockpit:


Open the window where the gauge is located (hold down the shift-key, and press 8 (if the gauge is located on window07), or shift and 5 if the gauge is located on window04, etc)

The gauge should become visible on the right side of the screen, at middle-height.


It should look something like this:

	V1 xxx / Vr xxx / V2 xxx

where 'xxx' is the calculated V-speed in knots.


The 3 values are automatically calculated depending on your aircraft weight, and its flap-setting. The heavier you are, or the more you retract the flaps, the higher the values will become.



V1: This is the 'go/no-go decision' velocity marker. When you reach this speed, during your takeoff-run, you _must_ continue with the takeoff even if you get an engine-failure.

Vr: This is the 'rotation' velocity marker. At this speed you should begin pitching the aircraft-nose up.

V2: This is the 'minimum safe takeoff-speed' velocity marker. At this speed the aircraft should produce enough lift to be able to climb at a safe pitch-attitude.




During your pre-flight checks you can move the mouse-cursor over the gauge and push on it with your left mouse-button to make sure the sound is on (the co-pilot will then say "Check")




When you are cleared for takeoff and begins rolling down the runway, the following should happen:

At 80 knots indicated airspeed the co-pilot will say "80", at which time you should cross-check that your IAS-dial also reads 80 knots.

At V1-speed the co-pilot will say "Vee one", at which time you can no longer abort the takeoff, but _must_ get airborne (even if an engine should fail)

Shortly after V1-speed the co-pilot will say "Rotate", at which time you pull the yoke-column back towards you to raise the nose of the aircraft.

At V2-speed the co-pilot makes the V2-speed call, and the VSI should show initial positive climb.



The co-pilot will call the V-speeds on every takeoff, and not just the first. However, the gauge must be opened atleast once before it becomes active. The gauge does not have to be visible for the aural callouts to work (at the pre-flight checks you can open it, then close it again, and that will be enough to make the co-pilot do the callouts during takeoff)




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Thanks for flying JELAIR :)

http://jelair.jelstudio.dk/

Jacob Larsen (JEL)
jelstudio@hotmail.com
