Time to officially announce the c172s SkyHawk SP or c172p retrofit.
Work on this project has come a long way since its conception and is at a point we could really use some vigorous testing to flush out any needed tuning or missing elements.
The other request I am putting out there is to entice one of our expert modelers to make us a brand new detailed c172sp exterior and cabin model which I can place all this interior work in. If we could achieve that we would have a state-of-the-art, modern glass cockpit aircraft to add to the FlightGear flagship.
While I am quite happy with what we have done here, it would be huge step forward to have a new c172s model containing this work. Even though the interior panel is laid out really close to the c172sp variant, it is still really just a c172p retrofit with panel change that includes a FG1000. I'm in the process of creating fuel injection system logic to replace the carb logic of the c172p. Because we already had a 180 engine and that is what the c172s comes with standard and we recently added a 68 gal integral fuel tank option, we will have everything needed to make this a true 172s except the exterior and interior cabin modeling.
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