Panel for PD Shackleton

[hobby]

Would any member care to recommend a suitable panel, preferably with a working 4 engine throttle, mixture, prop pitch control system?

[DaveB]

Eeee Hobby.. you get me rather late in the day for any (can't remember the word I was going to use) good (that'll have to do) suggestion but there are only 2 (nay) 3 Shacks out there. The PD Shack is a Mk2 if I'm not mistaken and the only other one I know of was the old ALPHA (Just Flight.. The Associates) model which pre-dates Christianity and didn't have the bits you require. As you can't feather each individual prop (only the associated props to one engine).. hows about trying the Freeware Lancastrian panel/gauges by Paul Edwards as a substitute?? Not ideal I know but the best I can come up with at this time of night ;-) The best Shack panel is undoubtedly the one on the payware Shack MkIII but you should be able to cobble something workable together out of the old Alpha model (or the PD panel for that matter) and the freeware Lancastrian ;-)

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[Paule]

Morning Hobby

The very first FDe release I ever did was Paul Fosters Shack 2's. I think I used Des Brabans Lancaster panel. As DaveB says our Lancastrian panel might be better. Problem is you can't easily work all four throttles with the mouse. The rpm/throttle gauge was done by Lars Fors and I remember him trying for ages to get a mouseable version to work; in the end we gave up. Now, I could be wrong, but on most RR supercharged engines mixture was controlled automatically by the boost setting so a mixture gauge would not be required.

Paul