RE: Align Plane II V1.2 Link
You can get it from Orbiter Hangar, I posted a link to it in my first post on this thread.
Title: RE: Align Plane II V1.2 Link
To: Graham2001
Thank you for your response and help in this matter. I have been away on business and had to re-open this thread due to the fact that in Orbiter 2006 P1 and now in Orbiter 2010 P1, we still do not have a working MFD that gives one of the most basic and elementary tools of spaceflight for pilots/astronauts since the Mercury Program: A working ADI (Attitude Director Indicator) or an FDAI (Flight Director Attitude Indicator) gimbal.
Some developers from this forum have been working on a more advanced Lunar Lander with a working ADI for their lunar lander from scratch project located here:
Animation Drift. Ball not returning to center
...but it is still being developed and will no doubt be an instrument only found in the lander and not an MFD that can be used for any craft much to my dismay.
Hence, I am continuing my pursuit of the code for the original Align Plane II MFD.
I have found only 2 downloadable versions of Align Plane II on the two most widely used Orbiter MFD source sites: AVSIM and Orbit Hangar Mods. From what I have gathered, Align Plane II was created by Yves Ruggeri, and was made available on
AVSIM.com ,
Located here:
Align Plane II
Direct download
LINK
Here are the details:
Author: Y. Ruggeri
Added on: 14th November 2003, 19:41:01
size: 1404kb
Filename: alignplaneii.zip
File Description: This is a refinement of the default Align Orbital Plane of Orbiter. It contains a fully functional FDAI which enables the positionning of the spacecraft before the maneuver. Both Inclinaison and LAN can be precisely targeted.
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Also, on Orbit Hangar Mods, there is a version 1.2 downloadable MFD located here: [ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3242"]Align Plane II V1.2[/ame]
Its details are as such:
Align Plane II V1.2
Orbiter Version: 031217
Author:
http://www.orbithangar.com/searchauth.php?search=graham2001
File: AlignPlaneIIv1.2.zip
Date Added: 08/02/08
Add-on Description: Align Plan II V1.2 is an alternate to the Align Plane MFD supplied with Orbiter. It offers the ability to change plane in a single burn.
Created by Yves Ruggeri, an earlier version was made available through AVSIM.com
I am uploading it here to make it available to the wider Orbiter community.
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In my short day's research on the subject I have found that Align Plane II v1.0 ("alignplaneii.zip") from AVSIM.com is the release that DOES NOT give the "This MFD only works in cockpit mode Press F8" Error Message. And that pressing F8 does not allow the MFD FDAI gimbal to work either.
It is only the version 1.2 Align Plane II ("AlignPlaneIIv1.2.zip") that gives this error. However version 1.0's FDAI is on several different test machines with various processors and newer and older video cards as well as the legacy and up to date drivers for those cards all yielded a very dark gimbal that made it impossible to see the image of the FDAI ball.
I have contacted the original author and plan to contact the distributor of the second version released to see if we can get the source code from either of them. If I do then I will post it here.
Thank you all for your input and help.