Loss of Aircraft Control When Mouse on Second Screen

`Brief description of the issue: if you put a vfr map to the 2nd screen then the joystick was froozen.
If you close the vfrmap then the stick is working well.
If you switch the vfrmap to the original screen bac, also stick is working well.

I can reproduce this mistake. I used cessna 172 skyhawk.

I think this is the same with other aircraft too.

win10 Prof and flightsimulator are at the latest softwarelevel.

Greetings
Ralph Missing

The mouse must be on the main window screen. Otherwise the simulator will not receive any input from the joystick.

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Hi @AusterLuchs6440 !
This has been an issue for a long time.

For now, you have to make sure the focus (mouse) goes back to the primary monitor to regain flight controls. I’m sure that when the developers get multi-monitor support done, hopefully this will also get corrected.

Sometimes I forget about it when flying VFR with no autopilot and see my plane going out of control. Same thing when I take screen capture - I end up capturing the 2 monitor rather than the primary one!

And it’s not just the VFR map, it’s anything you pull off from the primary onto a secondary monitor.

You can submit a zendesk on this as a Feature & Feedback at:
https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

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MODERATOR EDIT - ENGLISH ONLY
I find that the fact of deporting the EFIS like the G3X from the VL3 on another screen is great! But it’s frustrating to be able to interact with the flight controls when you manipulate the efi controls on the 2nd screen. Is there the possibility of seeing in order to be able to export the EFIS to other screens and manipulate them without losing the flight controls? I transfer my EFIS G3X from the VL3 to a second touch screen and when I manipulate the G3X and well I no longer control the aircraft, no commands respond.

Unless there are other solutions to have the G3X on another screen, I tried Air Manager, but the G3X is not supported. If anyone knows of any other software capable of doing this for the G3X I would like it !!

I think the explanation here is a bit unclear due to the OP obviously not having English as his primary language.

The ability to pop out instrument panels to another window is awesome and very much needed, particularly for home cockpit builders. Despite the current performance hit we take doing this, it’s still a great feature. Except for the problem described.

The issue:

If an instrument is popped out to another window / monitor, giving that window focus by moving the cursor to it (don’t even have to click it) will cause all controls for the plane to stop responding. That includes yoke / stick, throttle, pedals, etc. As long as the mouse cursor is in that instrument window, it’s impossible to control the plane.

For those simply breaking out the PFD and MFD to another monitor for better visibility, this isn’t much of a big deal. Those folks have no reason to be bringing their mouse over to these windows. They may not even notice that this is an issue.

The issue is more serious when it’s an instrument that has touch control. This includes the Garmin G3X or the touch screen display on the TBM or Longitude. These require the user to actively ā€œtouchā€ the screen, either with a mouse click, or with a tap on a touch screen. Doing so will move the mouse cursor to that window and give it focus, killing the ability to control the plane until focus is given back to the main sim window. This utterly defeats the purpose of breaking out the instruments in the first place if they can’t be interacted with properly.

This issue really needs to be fixed. There is no workaround to getting around this issue.

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thanks for going over my explanation, because that’s exactly the problem. sorry my english is not perfect because i am french.

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Yes, I realized that English probably wasn’t your primary language and the explanation of the issue wasn’t very clear. Although I recognized exactly what you were talking about.

Avec un peu de chance, peur-etre ils vont finalement repararer ce probleme stupide.

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a user in the community has begun to carry out a project to put the Glass cockpit in an external browser. And the test is conclusive. Still a lot of bug but it’s a good start.

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/develop-html-gauges-with-live-sim-data/361649/32

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Thanks for the heads up on this. Looks like a pretty convoluted 654 step process with instructions that are as clear as mud to get it working.

If this can be developed in a solution that’s as easy to use as popping out a window, this could be the answer to our problem.

I think it is only one-way for now. But I agree, much potential :smiley:

This has the potential to be amazing if it can be made to work without the user having a degree in computer science. Lol

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It is super easy actually.

The only ā€˜complex’ part is extracting the package from the windows store location if you dont have the steam version. But that is just a one time thing.

And I have the Steam version. I’ll have to look at the full thread in more detail. I’ve got the mod installed. Just have to figure out how to get it working now. If this works, this could be amazing.

All you do is start the bridgeclient.exe as admin, it will show you all the vcockpit panels which you can view (obviously within a loaded flight, not sure if it works in hangar).

It’s spitting out a bunch of path errors for me atm. Seems like I need to edit up the json file. I think I need some coffee before I do that. lol

Despite having the Steam version, it’s giving me errors when it hits the parts of the JSON looking for the MS Store version.

I have a feeling this is going to be a giant pain…

Thanks! You’re very welcome.

I have 3 screens up. Only using one for MSFS right now. If my mouse goes off the flight sim screen, I lose control of the sim and the plane. If the mouse is moved back to the MSFS screen, I regain control. Is there a way to keep this from happening?

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It’s a well known bug. Drives me crazy. It’s one thing taking mouse focus to another Window but to inhibit all the other peripherals as well, that’s just stupid.

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odd to me…I actively use another screen (e.g. for Simbrief or Google Maps) while flying and there’s no loss of control at all. Settings somewhere maybe??

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