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Hi.

Is there any way to view an in game clock in the Piper Cub please?

Hello, no clock in a J-3 so you will just have to use a wristwatch or phone

thanks,
Lewis

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Or you could use engine hours, if you just need a rough estimate of time spent flying....as part of the tachometer gauge, I think.

Wristwatch or phone is no use as it won't take account of pausing or time acceleration.

The Cub's low tech equipment makes it perfect for practicing manual cross country navigation, and it even comes with a map, but without any way of tracking in game time, tis all for nought

Would you consider adding one?

Is it possible to add a third-party one to the virtual cockpit display?

Neutrino the cub did not have a battery and was flown by line of sight and feel.

If you insist on time compression then you have no chance of using a watch.I suggest you use real time,as you would have to in REAL life.

Use your watch and do the job properly.

Cheers chris

Yes Speedy I know the Cub did not have a built in clock. But obviously no pilot would be stupid enough to take to the air without at least having a decent watch instead. Equally obviously a real life watch isn't much use for navigating in game since it won't sync with pausing the game or time compression, so that's not a particularly helpful suggestion.

Since no one else here seems to know how to do this, here is how you do it.

Download a third-party FSX clock gauge. The one I'm using is here.
http://simviation.com/1/download-file?f ... leId=42772

Unzip the download and drop the CAB file into your "...\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Gauges" directory.

Open "...\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\A2A_PiperJ3\panel\panel.cfg" in a text editor. You now need to add a new panel definition, or replace an existing one. In my stock panel.cfg the panel called Window01 wasn't used for anything so I replaced that.

In the 'Window Titles' section I commented out the none1 entry and replaced it with one called 'Clock'.

//Window01=none1
Window01=Clock


I then commented out the corresponding panel definition and replaced it with one that loads the third-party clock gauge.

//[Window01]
//Background_color=0,0,0
//size_mm=1,1
//position=0
//nomenu=1
//visible=0
//ident=20
//sizable=0

[Window01]
BACKGROUND_COLOR=0,0,0
size_mm=75,100
position=8
visible=1
ident=MISC_POPUP_1
gauge00=FP9_Clock_analog!Breitling_B, 0, 0, 75, 100


https://www.dropbox.com/s/cfrh82w7borip ... k.png?dl=0

Details of the panel definition files can be found here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc526956.aspx

Check the readme file that comes with the gauge you install for specific details.

Happy navigating.

Necessity is the mother of....research? ! Happy to see you got it sorted, Neutrino!

Fantastic thank you for this.

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It isn't that we don't know how to do it. -- it is we don't want to do it --- I like the j3 as is, but great for you that you have found a solution and thanks for sharing for others that might.


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I certainly want to put the clock on.

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OK, I know this is an old topic, but someone else might be looking for the same information.

The stock FSX (and P3D) Piper Cub has a "pocketwatch" that's perfectly acceptable for use in the Cub.

In panel.cfg you can replace the unused "dbg" panel entry with the following:



... and near the top of the file replace:
Window08=dbg
with
Window08=Clock

Be sure to save a copy of the original panel.cfg file in case you mess something up or need to revert.

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