Hide cockpit panel and/or aircraft

[Waterman7031]

Not only for those that want a home cockpit but for the rest of us as well, if the cockpit can also have its own separate window. That was possible in previous versions of FS and sorely lacking since the event of 2020. In FS2004 I would have my “out the front” view on my larger upper monitor, and then add as many 2D views as I wanted for various instruments in a smaller monitor directly below. These were fully functional windows ie. all the buttons and knobs in those 2D windows worked normally. Unlike the case in 2020/2024.

I suggested this improvement here, after the first time I used FS2020 - an obvious missing capability but FS 2020/2024 has a different philosophy that everything must be 3D and in the same window - OK maybe if you have VR but not so good for the rest of us.

So now we are stuck to pressing keys to switch, sometimes almost frantically, between different cockpit views that are readable and stable enough to operate the mouse on the controls, then quickly switching back to a less magnified view to see out the front and resume control of the plane. All in the name of progress.

[Sling380]

If 2D instruments is what you desire you should go the Air Manager route. The cockpits these days are 3D and so the useable 2D panels have to be created separately which is where AM comes into play. I have panels for all my favourite aircraft and wouldn’t fly without them.

Just a few of the ones I fly.

[Sal1800]

I think I understand what people want. When you have a physical cockpit, you have some interior structure and gauges so you don’t need the sim to add those. Some people want to retain the interior structure but some don’t.
It’s almost possible to do this today by modifying the attached_objects.cfg in the 2024 modular aircraft. But if you just remove the panel model, you would not be able to access any instruments or controls. So what you need is a way to hide the models but still retain all the behavior code. I don’t know if the sim can split the visual model from the code that way.
Theoretically you could but developers would have to think in very different ways.