Another option for 2D gauges

I looked into that awhile back while searching for a good moving map. Very impressive. Hard to beat physical knobs and buttons though. Scott

I agree. For now, I still use Panel Builder but only their EFIS along with a few engine gauges because I already have the monitor in place. I also use PlanG and can run VFR Maps/Sky Vector on the monitor if I want. When I was flying from a desk, I used the wife's iPad for FSWidgets (they don't offer gauges), and I liked it. The iPad/RemoteFlight is definitely a great alternative, an instrument panel lite!

Hey! That looks pretty good! Blends well.

I would still like to build some sort of "real" instrument panel. That is, actual gauges that can be manipulated by Almost Aviation style rotaries, switches, etc. Although, looking at two full instrument panels (physical and virtual) seems a bit busy to me, and removing the virtual cockpit has it's own problems with displays, Track IR, etc. (old discussion). I would like the gauges to be virtual and customizable. Panel Builder doesn't completely support A2A stuff it seems, and their instruments seem to lag with adjustment, at least when run through a network. I'm not sure what software would be best to attempt such a thing... should I ever become inspired enough to try.

That sim of yours looks damn good!! To me, all it really needs are side views of some sort (without track IR, or with only side-to-side maybe) and a few more gauges that can be controlled directly with rotaries. You're very, very close, in my opinion (I mean that in a good way). You already have the GPS, AP, Radios stack, etc. See, I would prefer a lighted radio stack too, even though what I have is better than none. I would streamline a lot of my useless controls/switches also.



Haha, "good authority"...  Air Manager, I need to watch your video again.  Also, PB has a FSUIPC interface that I've never tried, I've always used simconnect since it's familiar to me. I believe you can still adjust the ms in PB but doing so causes more latency on Gmap which is also networked. Everything is a compromise.



I've posted this link before as this guy has the right idea, although there is still the display limitation and virtual cockpit issue.  I must have overlooked the instrument software he's using. 

Anyway, Remote Flight is a very nice compromise.

Wow, I didn't realise PB could look at FSUIPC. I wonder if that's been there all along or if it was added after I looked at PB. I don't think Simconnect is an alternative if you want to get at Lvars - from a quick look, you have to write a Lua script that loops reading an Lvar and then writes the value into a public FSUIPC offset. Then you can edit a PB ini file and get it to link a particular gauge variable (RPM, say) to this offset instead of to the standard FSX value. Kind of fiddly but doable.

Just watched your latest video and saw the Remote Flight in action. Looks like it worked great! That's about as close as you can get to real aviation. In the case of the video, I guess a fuel gauge or two on you panel would have been handy.... or on another page of that iPad... but I'm being extremely picky!