Installation instructions:

Superpit Version 1.7, F-16 block 50/52. June 2004

Cockpit in 1600 x 1200 resolution.

This version is intended for SP3/4 and beyond. So that means you have properly installed Falcon 4.0,
patched it with 1.08us, and patched it with SP3/4 prior to installing the superpit.

There are 2 different installations, with or without BMS2.0/FF3

  BMS 2.0/FF3:
Step 1 Run the F16_Superpit_v1.7.exe
Step 2 Point it to your Microprose/Falcon4/art/ckptart dir and click "install'
Step 3 Launch your Falcon 4.0 simulator 

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  SP3/4/FF2/BMS1.03:
Step 1 Run the F16_Superpit_v1.7.exe
Step 2 Point it to your Microprose/Falcon4/art/ckptart dir and click "install'
Step 3 Go to your Falcon4/art/ckptart folder, back up 16_ckpit.dat and rename SP4_16_ckpit.dat into 16_ckpit.dat
Step 4 Launch your Falcon 4.0 simulator 

 

  Autoscaling or running the 1600x1200 pit in 1280x960 or 1024x768 resolution
  You can run the F16 Superpit in autoscaled mode when using the BMS2/FF3/C1.exes
Step 1 Launch the FF/BMS config editor in your Falcon4 dir and apply autoscaling under 'Benchmarksettings', and apply
Step 2 If you plan to use 1024x768 resolution the original 1024 res pit needs to be disabled, rename 10_ckpit.dat and 10_plock.dat 
Step 3 If you have more F-16 type specific folders in art/ckptart rename these folders to load the default (F-16 Superpit) 

 

Extra's that are included:
1. Smart switching between normal view and wide view, night and day and bigger HUD for homepitbuilders
How to do day and nightswitching and switching to big HUD:

To do this you need to go to the reference view first, shift-1.
- pressing numkey 2 or panning down will bring you to the nightpit
- pressing numkey 6 or panning right will bring you to the big HUD, nightpit
- pressing numkey 8 or panning up will bring you to the daypit
- pressing numkey 4 or panning left will bring you to the big HUD, daypit

Only downside is that after padlock the 2D pit defaults to daypit, also at night. 
This has our attention and will possibly and hopefully be fixed in SP4 or later. 
Normal and wide switching via shift-2 works as normal.


2. Reference page (Shift-1) has a switching to more reference ability like formation flying. The MFD on the right has 'touchscreen' ability, so the MFD can be used while in the reference view.

3. Flood lighting is to be enabled in the downrightview, 16_03_dr.gif, at the floodlights panel, there is a turning knob, or select the turning knob on the portable lamp .

4. Backlit panels 

5. Refueling reference chart, right knee

6. Ghost view,  the socalled "ghost view", bigger MFD's but still being able to see what is going on outside

7. High resolution kneemap of Korea. Available at the cockpits.nl menu at Misc.downloads, install into campaign folder

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Special thanks go to:
- My wife and kids for letting me invest the time in this project.
- Keith"Fixitman" P. for great work on the datfile and installer
- Maik"Maestro"Jansen for betatesting
- Thomas"Av8r"Spann for betatesting
- Ivo"Widmak"Schaeperclaus for betatesting
- "Homer" and Tomas"Ataribaby"Hamarcak for making the new and old F4patch installer
- Julian"Codec"Onions, for his excellent cockpitediting utility.
- Mark"Onsight", for his great help with the datfile conversion to 1600 res and the resizing of the fonts.
- Olivier"Red Dog"Beaumont, for allowing the use of his reference data.
- Jerry "Mouse" Bielsma for being the pilot model.
- "Ripley" for making some good additional suggestions for the datfile


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