PANEL GUIDE


Panel for F86-F Sabre Jet by Mike Eustace


This is a set of Panels for the F-86F Sabre Jet using the A-4 Gunsight. Now that I have a monster PC myself, it is designed to be used at 1024x768 resolution, and in CFS2 only.
The main reference for the design is the F-86 Sabre Jet Flight Manual by Boomerang Publishers, ISBN 1-891570-04-8; and Walk Around F-86 Sabre, Squadron/Signal Publications no 21, ISBN 0-89747-409-0. I have slightly modified the Panel from an accurate copy of the original to accomodate the most useful combat-flight gauges on the top panel, rather than the authentic engine-management gauges. 

The Cockpit is split into several separate panel elements in order to maximise the available colours.

These Panel elements can be individually accessible providing you have set up your keyboard assignments in the CFS2 SETTINGS/ CONTROLLER ASSIGNMENTS screen to control the appropriate commands.
I have completely configured my own keys, and my recommended settings are set out below. You may assign whatever keys you wish.


DISPLAY/HIDE PANEL WINDOW 1   assign 1
DISPLAY/HIDE ECU   	      assign 2
DISPLAY/HIDE PANEL WINDOW 3   assign 3
DISPLAY/HIDE PANEL WINDOW 4   assign 4
DISPLAY/HIDE PANEL WINDOW 5   assign 5
DISPLAY/HIDE PANEL WINDOW 6   assign 6


Keys 1-6 normally control engine power settings, but who flies without a proper throttle these days?



The Panel windows for the Sabre, and their initial status are as follows:

1. Canopy and Crisp-o-vision gauges - ON
2. Top Panel - ON
3. Gunsight - ON
4. Full Screen Instruments - OFF
5. GPS Korea - OFF




Panels 1 to 3 are permanently on and create the Main Cockpit view. 
Panel 4 is a full screen lookdown view of the Instrument Panel. You can't see out the front with this on, so if you intend to fly any length of time with this, then I recommend you open a second view window. 

Panel 5 is the AIRFIELD DIRECTION FINDER - ADF - based on Chuck Dome's GPS 100, and programmed by me to show Korean airfields and Carrier tracks only for the purposes of our Korean war Project. Use Shift+5 to open it, and click on the switch to activate. Then click on the back and forward arrows to cycle through the available airfields to obtain distance and direction.
With Carrier tracks, we have set a start and end co-ordinate. To find the Carrier, fly the needle to the nearest co-ordinate, then switch to the furthest co-ordinate. Now fly the needle towards this co-ordinate, and somewhere along the line you will find the Carrier.
Hopefully you won't be doing any Carrier take-offs and landings with the Sabre, but you may be tasked with escorting Navy Jets or intercepting incoming bandits, so it's there if you need it.


If you wish to remove the Cockpit Panels during Combat in order to maximise your view, it is recommended that you use the key combination Shift + [ (Instrument Panels On/Off).

Alternatively, you may wish to use the Panel cycle key "W" which removes the panels in favour of the M$ HUD

This Panel set has been designed to accompany the F-86E Sabre Jet Aircraft created by Hayden Scott-Williams, specifically for the CFS2 Korean war project by FOX FOUR. Hayden has also created the beautiful Virtual Cockpit, because I don't understand any of that stuff. It has been tested for use at 1024 x 768 resolution in CFS2 only. 


Mike Eustace
IndioBlack@aol.com