My intention is to have two smaller monitors below my main one. I have downloaded the necessary instruments etc I need for a Cessna 172 but I would like to also take on the Cessna 208 Grand Caravan. My problem is where do I get the large PFD and MFD downloads from? I am willing to buy them if available.
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You can “pop out” the glass avionics displays by holding down the right Alt key (labeled “Alt-Gr” on keyboards in some countries) and clicking. This should open a window with a copy of the display, which you can move to your additional monitor.
Thankyou for your reply. Although I haven’t tried that, I think I understand the process. I am assuming every I close down, I loose the display. I was thinking more along the lines of a permanent copy of the displays that I can call up as and when needed like you can do with Air Manager.
Check out MSFS Popout Manager.
You can save profiles and have it automatically pop out and place as you launch.
Within Air Manager the bezels for the G1000 are freely available.
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Caravan panels can be found here along with many others. Cessna 208B Grand Caravan G1000 Panel Set
I recently started using PopOut Manager with Spacedesk (both free.)
I installed POPM and Spacedesk servers on the PC, and Spacedesk client on two iPads under my primary monitor.
POPM supports touchscreen, but I haven’t been able to get that to work with the iPads yet. I suspect it’s something I haven’t set up in Windows yet.
Spacedesk basically turns the iPads into additional Windows monitors, and I probably need to tell Windows they’re touchscreens, and calibrate them.
I went this route because I’ve read that using the sim’s popout tool hits FPS hard.
Doesn’t seem to be the case with POPM and SD, since they use their own servers on the PC.
Thank you all for replying. I think I have a couple of busy days ahead of me. Thank you once again.
POPM doesn’t change the performance. It’s just a really nice tool to automate the popping out, placement and sizing with the added features of touch and returning focus to the sim. The pop out performance thing affects some users setups more than others. Sounds like you are similar to me and are not affected that much.
I do the same (just with Android tablets) and its simple, effective, awesome and free.
From what I understand, the touchscreen function currently has an issue because Popout Manager has basically become faster than spacedesk can handle. I read that in a post somewhere here on the forum but cant find where that was, sorry.
I read that as well. There’s a setting they advise you to play around with that adds delays in 10ms steps. Haven’t had success with that yet.
@Flackie927 If it’s not already obvious from the context, you’ll need to use a combination of an Air Manager bezel (like those from Simstrumentation) and a sim pop-out (managed by POPM) to achieve the full experience if you want a touchable bezel (and have touchscreens available). If you just want the content of the glass display because, say, you have G1000 hardware, you just need POPM for that.
I see others mentioning Spacedesk. It’s a fine tool if you have iPads and you want to use them, but it takes up a ton of bandwidth on your network, and since 99 times out of 100 on iPad / Android tablet you’ll be connecting over WiFi, that adds latency too. You’ll usually end up running the virtual Spacedesk monitor at a lower resolution than the iPad itself and scaling, because at high res the screen update gets noticeably slow (like, cursor-skidding-across-the-screen slow) and that’s before you consider the touch latency mentioned above.
Having tried it, I would personally go for actual touchscreens attached to your PC every time. But that’s just my experience.
Oh, I must have missed that.