Aircraft using custom Luas rather than standard FSX variables

Hi - I'm new here. I only just discovered your software. I currently use Panel Builder but I watched the video and read the information on making your own gauges and that looks a really useful tool to get closer to the variety of aircraft I fly. To help me decide whether to buy your software I wondered if it is possible to create gauges that will read the appropriate lua in non default aircraft? For example when I got the A2A C172 I had to adjust Panel Builder so it read the A2A Lua for rpm (L:Eng1_RPM) rather than the default FSX RPM. I did that using a short lua program as follows:

while 1 do

-- READING LOCAL VAR
 Eng_RPM = ipc.readLvar("L:Eng1_RPM")

-- WRITING OFFSET
 ipc.writeDBL(0X66CA, Eng_RPM)

-- DELAY
 ipc.sleep(100)

end

Is it possible to do something similar with your software. Thanks

Rich Cooke

Hi Rich,

Air Manager right now can connect to FSX using SimConnect.

LVars would make a nice addition, since allot of data can only be fetched using LVars.

I time, we will surely implement this, although I cannot say anything sensible (yet) on when that will be. Sorry :) Our first focus right now is finishing up AM 2.1, and creating an iPad application.

When I know more, I will surely post something on this forum.

Kind regards,

Corjan

Many thanks for the reply Corjan. I'll keep an eye on your site as having access to Lvars and the ability to design gauges would be cockpit heaven for me!

Thanks again, Rich