For Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

Your instruments, always in view.

Fly external, chase-cam, or zoomed way out — and keep your instruments. PanelSight pins a live panel on top of the sim, always readable, whatever the camera's doing. No panels to build, no pop-out windows to move around: it detects your aircraft and puts the right panel on screen for you.

Truly plug-and-play — nothing to configure, no extra hardware.

PanelSight overlay showing the live G1000 glass PFD and MFD mounted over the cockpit of a Cessna 172 Skyhawk in MSFS 2024

One overlay, every kind of panel

Six-pack steam gauges Garmin G1000 G3000 touchscreen G3X Touch GNS 530 Complex analog clusters Day & night
Why PanelSight

No panels to build. No pop-outs to wrangle. It just knows.

The usual way takes two tools and a lot of patience: for every plane you fly, you build and configure a panel, then carefully position the sim's pop-out displays by hand.

PanelSight does all of it automatically: it detects what you're flying, replicates the panel, and pops out and mounts the sim's own displays for you.

Detects your aircraft

Fly anything — PanelSight reads the avionics and airframe from the sim and switches to the matching panel on its own as you swap planes.

Zero configuration

Nothing to assemble, no gauges to drag into place, no files to edit. Launch it and the right panel is already there, live. This is the whole point.

Analog and live glass

Faithful steam gauges with correct arcs and redlines — plus real Garmin glass (G1000, G3000, G3X, GNS 530) brought straight from the sim's own displays.

Real-time SimConnect data

Every needle and number is driven live by the simulator — not a static skin. What the aircraft does, your overlay shows, instantly.

Faithful to the real gauge

Each dial is modeled on the actual MSFS instrument, built to be trusted at a glance — the right scale, the right colored arcs, the right redline.

Always in view

Zoom out, jump to an external view or pan around the cockpit — your instruments stay pinned on top and readable. Click-through, so they never steal a click or get in the way of flying.

Showcase

Real panels, real flights

Watch PanelSight detect the aircraft, pop out the sim's own glass displays and mount them on the overlay — no clicks, no dragging, ready in seconds. Below the video, scroll through the full supported hangar — every shot over live MSFS 2024.

Faithful by design

Gauges that match the real instrument

We model each dial on the actual MSFS panel, aiming for instruments you can trust at a glance: the right scale, the right colored arcs, the right redline. When the airspeed sits in the green, so does PanelSight.

  • Correct arc bands, redlines and Vne per aircraft
  • Attitude, altimeter, turn coordinator and DG done right
  • Radial-engine clusters: manifold, CHT, carb temp, multi-tank fuel
Close detail of PanelSight's analog engine and flight instrument cluster
Live glass, not screenshots

The sim's real displays, popped out and mounted for you

For glass aircraft, PanelSight automatically pops out the sim's own displays and mounts them on your overlay in a tidy bezel — no hunting through menus, no dragging windows to a corner, no pop-out manager. It's the aircraft's actual PFD and MFD: the map pans, synthetic vision moves, all in real time.

  • Auto-popped and auto-positioned — zero clicks from you
  • G1000, G3000, G3X Touch and GNS 530 supported
  • Mixed panels — analog six-pack beside a live glass map
  • Native display aspect, no stretch or pillarbox
Triple live G3000 glass displays framed by PanelSight in the Vision Jet
Hands on, when you want

Spin the rotary knobs with your scroll wheel

Tuning a radio or twisting the heading bug in the sim usually means hunting for a pixel-perfect spot on a tiny knob. PanelSight gives every rotary encoder a generous enhanced rotation area — just hover and scroll. Everything else stays click-through, so you only ever interact when you mean to.

  • Mouse-wheel control for heading, altitude, baro, COM/NAV and map range
  • A larger, forgiving hit area — no pixel-hunting the knob's edge
  • Click-through everywhere else — the overlay never steals a click
A Garmin G1000 panel in PanelSight with its bezel rotary knobs, driven by the mouse wheel
Out of your way in an instant

Double-tap Ctrl to show or hide it

Want a clean view for a moment — a screenshot, the scenery, a glance at the whole cockpit? Tap Ctrl twice and the overlay vanishes; tap twice again and it's back exactly where it was. No menus, no mouse, no breaking your flow.

  • One global hotkey — works anywhere mid-flight
  • Toggles the whole panel at once — nothing to reposition
  • Tucks away to the system tray when you want it fully gone
A clean MSFS cockpit view — the PanelSight overlay can be hidden instantly with a double-tap of Ctrl
Supported aircraft

Planes PanelSight already knows

28 aircraft supported today, with the library growing toward every Career-mode aircraft and beyond.

AeroElvira Optica Air Tractor AT-802 Beechcraft Bonanza G36 Beechcraft King Air 350i Canadair CL-415 Cessna 152 Cessna 172 SkyhawkFree Cessna 185F Skywagon Cessna 208B Grand Caravan EX Cirrus Vision Jet G2 CubCrafters NXCub CubCrafters XCub Curtiss JN-4 Jenny Daher TBM 930 De Havilland DHC-2 Beaver Diamond DA62 Douglas DC-3 Flight Design CTSL Icon A5 Magni Gyro M24 Orion North American P-51D Mustang North American T-6 Texan Patey Draco X Pilatus PC-12 NGX Robin CAP 10 Robin DR400 Zivko Edge 540 Zlin Savage Cub

The Cessna 172 Skyhawk overlay is free forever — no license needed; a one-time license unlocks every other plane. And the list keeps growing — more aircraft are added all the time.

How it works

Up and flying in under a minute

No config files, no second computer. Launch and go.

Start your flight

Load any aircraft in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 the way you always do.

Run PanelSight

It connects over SimConnect, detects your aircraft, replicates the matching panel — and pops out and mounts any glass displays, all on its own.

Just fly

The panel's already on screen and live. Needles move with the aircraft, clicks pass straight through to the sim. That's it.

Roadmap

Where PanelSight is headed

The focus right now is doing the automatic part flawlessly for the aircraft you fly most — then growing outward from there.

Supported

Career mode: the general aviation planes

General aviation means the small planes — everything from trainers and bush planes to turboprops and light jets. PanelSight supports them, analog and glass alike, so the overlay is ready as you progress.

Exploring

Career mode: airliners and helicopters

Whether these come next depends on demand: if enough pilots want the same automatic overlay in their airliners and helicopters, we'll build it. Tell us what you fly.

In development

Use your secondary screen(s)

PanelSight detects your extra monitors automatically and spreads the instruments across them — putting the screens you already own to work.

Exploring

Build & customize your own panels

Rearrange instruments, tweak the layout and save your own setups — for when you want to go beyond the panel PanelSight builds automatically.

FAQ

Good questions

Which simulator does it support? +
PanelSight is built for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and talks to it through the official SimConnect interface. It reads data the same way the sim's own tools do.
Do I need a second PC or special hardware? +
No. PanelSight runs on the same machine as the sim as a lightweight always-on-top overlay, right over your existing view — clicks pass straight through. Sending the panel to a second monitor is in development, but nothing extra is required today.
Will it hurt my frame rate? +
It's designed to be light — a single SimConnect connection feeding a simple vector-drawn overlay. It doesn't hook the renderer or inject into the sim; to your GPU it's just a normal window.
Do I still need a pop-out manager? +
No — that workflow is exactly what PanelSight replaces. For glass aircraft it pops out the sim's own displays and positions them on the overlay for you, automatically. No Alt-clicking screens, no dragging windows into place, no third-party pop-out tools.
Does it modify the sim? Is it safe to stream? +
PanelSight talks to MSFS through the official SimConnect interface — the same way the sim's own tools do — and runs as a regular always-on-top window. No code injection, no renderer hooks, no sim files touched. Since the overlay is part of your screen, it shows up in streams and recordings like anything else.
Which aircraft are supported? +
28 aircraft today, across analog and glass — from the C152, DC-3 and DHC-2 Beaver to the TBM 930, Vision Jet, King Air 350i, PC-12 and more — all recognized automatically. The library keeps expanding, and glass aircraft are driven straight from the sim's own displays.
Is any of it free? +
Yes. You get a free 7-day trial of the complete product — every aircraft and every feature, no payment details needed. After the trial, the Cessna 172 overlay stays free forever, with no license. Every other aircraft needs a one-time license, and new advanced features we add later (such as multi-monitor support) are part of that license too — so the free Cessna 172 is the instrument overlay on its own.
Do I have to set anything up? +
No — that's the whole idea. PanelSight detects your aircraft and replicates the panel automatically, with nothing to assemble or configure. Building and customizing your own panels is on the roadmap for when you want to go further.
How do I get it? +
Download PanelSight for Windows from the button above (or the download page) and install it. You get a free 7-day trial of everything; after that, the Cessna 172 overlay stays free, and a one-time license unlocks the rest.
Windows says it "protected your PC" — is that safe? +
Yes. Because PanelSight is new, Windows may show a blue "Windows protected your PC" message (Microsoft Defender SmartScreen) the first time you run the installer. It's a caution about unfamiliar software, not a sign that anything is wrong. Click More info, then Run anyway to continue. As more people install PanelSight, the message stops appearing on its own.
Where can I get help or stay updated? +
Join the PanelSight Discord to ask questions, report issues, request features, and hear about updates. For account, license, or refund questions, email support@panelsight.net.
Get PanelSight

Download and fly

Every download starts with a free 7-day trial — every aircraft and every feature, no payment details needed.

Launch price · until 31 Aug 2026
€17.95€24.95

One-time payment · unlocks every aircraft and feature · one PC per license · taxes shown at checkout

Not ready to buy? Download anyway — the Cessna 172 overlay stays free after the trial, no license needed.