Instrument requests
Please post your instrument requests here, so that other people can more easily track what's going on, hopefully avoiding duplicate efforts.
Creating new instruments or updating and improving existing ones is another good way to get started contributing to FlightGear, for an introduction please see Creating instruments for FG.
Currently work in progress
The Televel Fuel Gauge
AndersG created the Televel fuel contents gauge as used in the Short S.23 "Empire flying boat" and Short S.25 Sunderland. This gauge is used for fuel level reading. The aircraft using this fine piece of instrumentation is WiP (work in progress) and is available in FlightGear/git.
Open instrument requests
P-51D - PM hvengel
- Fuel gages for P-51D (wing tanks and fuselage tank)
- Oxygen gage
- Hydraulic pressure gage
- Oxygen flow blinker
- ammeter
Ideas
FLARM (TCAS for gliders)
This would actually seem like a VERY interesting project for a new Nasal based instrument (a FLARM is basically TCAS for gliders):
A "FLARM" is basically a very simple TCAS-like device for glider pilots. It permanently recomputes 3D trajectories to provide situational awareness for pilots. This could be easily done for both, AI traffic as well as multiplayer traffic using Nasal scripting.
Such a project would comprise a fair amount of physics and maths, and it would be about creating a new instrument. Still, it should be possible to implement this entirely within the base package, without touching any core C++ code.
This should be quite possible to implement using Nasal and static textures, one would just need to continuously process the ai/multiplayer properties to recompute the traffic situation and animate the display accordingly.