The goal of the Flightdeck-UI project is to apply ideas from aircraft instrumentation design to general purpose user interfaces. The project homepage is at "http://www.openlight.com/fdui/". Flightdeck-UI is open source. It is written in Python and requires Tkinter. A whitepaper and the initial code release are available at the project website. The library modules in the current release include two virtual instruments (altimeter-style and VSI-style gauges) and a demonstration program. The demonstration program ("cmdwatch.py") will monitor the output of a Unix command of your choice (you also enter a regex filter and a numerical expression, so that the final result is a number), displaying the quantity and rate of change using two gauges on the screen. A "SHRINK" button puts up a small window with two scaled-down gauges, and hides everything else -- so you can keep it running in a corner of your screen. As a quick experiment, you can run several instances of "cmdwatch.py" to monitor multiple variables. A more comprehensive application -- the Multi-Variable Monitor "mvm.py" is being planned. Some good places to use Flightdeck-UI are operations centers that perform monitoring (typically 24x7), as well as tools for System Administrators who need to keep an eye on multiple machines while concentrating on other work. Questions can be emailed to originating address of this message. Have fun! George