[Release] Simple Flight Remote 4.1: Your cockpit on a phone or tablet, now with a First Officer

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Hi everyone,

I’m the developer of Simple Flight Planner, and I’d like to share another app from the Simple Flight Suite: Simple Flight Remote.

Remote puts a moving map, cockpit controls, instruments, a full ATC radio and a first officer on your phone or tablet. You run it on your sim PC, open the address it shows in your tablet’s browser, and you’re connected over your home Wi-Fi. It works with MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024. There’s no account, no subscription and no FSUIPC, and everything runs on your own PC.

:world_map: Moving map

  • Your aircraft live on the map, north-up or track-up.
  • Load your flight plan and the route appears with every waypoint named, the active leg highlighted, and the distance and time to the next waypoint.
  • Layers for AI traffic, VORs, NDBs, localizers and enroute fixes, all taken from the sim’s own navigation database, so the map always matches your aircraft.
  • A nearby list of navaids and fixes with frequencies, bearings and distances, handy when you need to pick a diversion quickly.

:control_knobs: Cockpit controls

  • Autopilot: AP, HDG, ALT, V/S, NAV and APR, with the heading bug, altitude and vertical speed.
  • COM1 and COM2 tuning with standby swap.

:compass: Instruments and glass

  • A full set of instruments drawn from live sim data, with an engine strip that adapts to piston, twin, turboprop or jet.
  • Your aircraft’s own G1000 on a tablet, with working softkeys and knobs.
  • The G3000 touch controller, working on the tablet.
  • Aircraft checklists on your tablet.

:radio: A full ATC radio, offline

  • ATIS and AWOS built from the weather your sim is actually running.
  • CTAF calls at uncontrolled fields, with AI aircraft announcing their positions in their own voices.
  • Towered service from start to finish: an IFR clearance read against your plan, then ground, tower, departure, approach and back in.
  • Taxi instructions taxiway by taxiway, from a controller who notices if you wander off the route.

:man_pilot: New in 4.1: a first officer

  • Reads your checklists aloud, does its own items, and checks your answers against the aircraft.
  • Makes the takeoff and approach callouts: V1, rotate, positive rate, minimums and more.
  • Push-to-talk voice commands: “flaps one”, “before takeoff checklist”, “gear up”.
  • Can work the radio for you: readbacks, frequency changes, and self-announcing at uncontrolled fields.
  • Can learn custom switches on add-on aircraft.
  • Imports your existing rsFirstOfficer checklists.

:mobile_phone: Better on phones
4.1 also improves the phone layout. The map buttons now fold away under a MENU button, so you get more map and nothing runs off the edge of the screen.

Where to get it
Simple Flight Remote is a thank-you gift for supporting my work on the Simple Flight suite of products with a donation, at simpleflightsuite.com.

Feedback
Many of these features started as suggestions from people here, so I’d love to hear what you think:

Happy flying!
Mike

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