Knots ASI Conversion for A2A Comanche 250 for Microsoft Flight Simulator

This is a quick little texture mod I made for the A2A Comanche that changes the ASI and cockpit decals to be in knots instead of miles per hour. Supports the tablet customizations that change Vne and Va (Tip tanks and stabilator tips). I don't think it's realistic to have this in a real Comanche, however I personally prefer it. So I figured I would share it in case other people wish to use it as well.

To install, just drag and drop "a2a-comanche-asi-conversion" into your community folder.

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This add-on is related to A2A Comanche.

Recent Changelog for 1.2.3

Minor update
-Adjusted font color on ASI to be a very very light shade of gray, like the other gauges on the panel.
-Exported better mipmaps. Potentially better readability. Let me know if its better/worse than previous versions. (Looks better to me, though)
-Improved position of ASI texture resulting in better accuracy. It now reads within +/- 1 knot of what the tooltip says. (It was sitting a few pixels too high previously, causing it to read about 2-3 kts higher than it should on the sides of the gauge)

635 Downloads 11 August 2023

Very clever. 👍

3 months ago

Gabe777

Hi,
this is great idea but I have problem. I installed mod but it only changed cockpit decals but ASI stays the same.
Don't know what could be a problem.

4 months ago

Sounds like a mod conflict, likely a livery or something is supplying its own copy of the gauge texture file. If you empty your community folder and just put the A2A comanche and my mod, does it work then?

thegamerguy

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Branimir21

Thank you very much for this update. As real world pilot I fly only the planes with airspeed indicator based on knots. I was a bit afraid destroying my feeling of airspeed when using mph scale in the sim.

steku

Thanks for making this! Regarding your comment "I don't think it's realistic to have this in a real Comanche" - IDK I mean if you own the plane, you can customize how you like and I think making the airspeed indicator show knots instead of mph seems like something that probably happens more often than "knot" in the real world 😊

I agree with that. But on the other hand, I didn't really model the ASI off any real world gauges that are in KTS. I just sorta freehanded it and tried to keep in the same style as the original Comanche one. I guess you could call it a DIY aftermarket gauge :P

CaptEEEE

Been looking for some clever person to make this 😊
Once the mod is installed I get some weird stuff happening with the reflections.
Some of text also becomes unclear fx. the text on the VSI.

I noticed odd reflections on my flight today as well. It seems to only happen when the sky is clear. When I made it overcast, everything looked fine which would explain why I didn't spot it yesterday in my testing (it was cloudy with real-world weather). I'm gonna have a look and see if I can pinpoint the cause. It's probably something really dumb, like I forgot to set the proper bit-depth when exporting from Photoshop or something. I personally don't see any issues with text readability, but I'll keep a close eye out for it when testing the reflections later. EDIT: yea i see what you mean with the text. Gonna work on that too. EDIT 2: found the problem. Yours truly exported the normal maps in DXT1, which is a no-no apparently. They should be DXT5. Also I forgot to export the main texture with mipmaps, so that's why they have bad readability. Pushing an update soon : )

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Stoy

Thanks you !

Tony73

Great, thanks!
It was so hard to read the KTS in the original ASI.

or you could jsut hover over the dial with tooltips one. I do it for the barometer

TomVachon

KDieter

Finalllllyyy!!! Thank you veeery many!!!

Bartul

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