Making notes prior to game to display in-flight

[CrackD0wn]

Hi all,

Still new to MSFS, but loving it so far. Is there a way to make notes, say prior to a flight, so that you can bring it up mid-flight? I’m thinking of things like VOR frequencies and such. At the moment, when in VR, I’m having to active pause, then take the headset off and alt-tab out the game to look at things like LIttleNavMap etc. It would be great if you could access this all within the headset, or at least make notes that can be pulled down from the in-flight menu.

Thanks

[Beginner314]

In oculus home you can pin desktop windows (even the whole destop) into your vr-space.

Don’t know if and how this works with other headsets.

[ffrank]

I’m not sure of anything in-game you can use, but there’s an app called OVR Toolkit that allows you to pull up any of your desktop windows into VR. They can be resized and put anywhere.

Desktop+ is a new (to Steam) app that basically does the same thing but it’s free. It’s got a bit more of a learning curve, but it’s got good reviews and if all you need are notes it will probably work fine for you.

[rob12770]

@ffrank

Desktop+ is a new (to Steam) app that basically does the same thing but it’s free.

that might work for VATsim …hmm

[MarkRWatney]

I have been hesitant to release my software, but here is a screen print below.

It allows you to create a checklist that is editable “and” it also uses voice speech too. You can set the number of seconds that are paused between each spoken line of text. It uses the Windows standard speech feature that says each line of text. It allows you to set the volume on playback in Options. The bottom window is just for editing the text and is normally not there. The top window is resizeable.

I want to make one more tweak to it before I release it. I want to create a way that looks good, but it allows the user to pause a line to a different length of time, for any line. But the technique has alluded me so far on how I want to do it.

Notice the last line of text? These are the simple TBM steps I use on each take-off at the runway. I have multi-player turned off.

We shall see. I have been using it for the last 230 flights so I think it is bug-free.