For Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

Automatic instrument panels.

PanelSight detects what you're flying and puts the right panel on screen, either on a spare monitor or as an overlay over the sim. Nothing to build, nothing to configure.

Free 7-day trial: every aircraft and feature, no payment details needed.

The Cessna 172 overlay is free forever. No license needed.

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

Every kind of panel, on your second screen or over the sim

Six-pack steam gauges Garmin G1000 G3000 touchscreen G3X Touch GNS 530 Complex analog clusters
Instant setup

Up and flying in under a minute

These three steps are everything. No panels to build, no second computer.

Download and install

Get the free 7-day trial: every aircraft and feature, no payment details needed.

Launch PanelSight

Open it alongside the sim. It connects on its own, with nothing to configure.

Start a flight

Load any aircraft, the way you always do. Your panel is already there.

How it works

No panels to build. No pop-outs to manage. It sets itself up.

The usual way to get instruments on a second screen takes two tools and a lot of patience: build or download a panel for every plane you fly, then teach a pop-out manager where that plane's displays go. Fly something else and you start again. PanelSight does all of it automatically.

Detects your aircraft

Fly anything. PanelSight reads the avionics and airframe from the sim and builds the matching panel on its own, with the right instruments in the right places. Nothing to assemble, no files to edit.

Pops out the glass displays

For glass cockpits, PanelSight pops out the sim's own displays (G1000, G3000, G3X, GNS 530) and mounts them on your panel. No Alt-clicking, no dragging windows into place.

Replicates the steam gauges

The classic six-pack, engine clusters, fuel and trim: every dial drawn to match the real aircraft, with the correct scales, arcs and redlines, moving live with the sim.

Two ways to fly

Where do you want your panel?

Spare monitor: a dedicated panel

Connect any monitor or touchscreen and PanelSight fills it edge-to-edge with your aircraft's panel, knobs and buttons included. See it in detail.

One screen: the overlay

No spare monitor? A click-through overlay pins your instruments over the sim view. Fly external, zoom out, they stay readable. Double-tap Ctrl to hide or show it.

Showcase

See it in flight

Watch PanelSight detect the aircraft, pop out the sim's own glass displays and mount them in place, with no clicks and no dragging, ready in seconds. Below the video, the full supported hangar: every shot shows the overlay over live MSFS 2024, and on a spare monitor the same panels fill the screen edge-to-edge.

Secondary screens

Your monitor becomes the instrument panel

PanelSight fills your monitor edge-to-edge with your aircraft's panel, framed in a drawn bezel. It follows whatever you fly, automatically, and the sim view on your main screen stays untouched. No windows to drag, no layouts to build, ever.

  • Choose per monitor: PFD, MFD, the analog six-pack, or tabs you tap to switch mid-flight
  • Touch works like a real cockpit: turn knobs, press buttons, scroll maps with a finger
  • Add as many monitors as you own, and each one becomes a dedicated panel
Live glass displays framed in PanelSight bezels; the same panels can fill a secondary monitor edge-to-edge
Hands on, when you want

Turn the knobs with your finger. No extra hardware.

Tuning a radio or twisting the heading bug in the sim usually means pixel-hunting a tiny knob, or buying dedicated physical hardware just to get real knobs. PanelSight needs neither. Every knob is surrounded by a generous enhanced rotation area, so you never have to hit its exact edge. On a touchscreen, reach out and turn the knob or press the buttons, like in a real cockpit. With a mouse, hover anywhere in that same area and scroll.

  • Heading, altitude, baro, COM/NAV and map range, all turned by finger or scroll wheel
  • The touchscreen you already own replaces costly knob hardware
  • Big, forgiving rotation areas, with no pixel-hunting the knob's edge
  • On the overlay, everything else stays click-through, so it never steals a click
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

Found a gauge that does not match the aircraft? That is a bug. Tell us on Discord and we will fix it.

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 panel 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, with 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
Supported aircraft

Planes PanelSight already supports

28 aircraft supported today, and the library keeps growing.

AeroElvira Optica Air Tractor AT-802 Beechcraft Bonanza G36 Beechcraft King Air 350i Canadair CL-415 Cessna 152 Cessna 172 SkyhawkFree overlay 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, with no license needed. A one-time license unlocks every other general-aviation aircraft we support, now and in the future, plus advanced features like secondary screens.

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 your panel is ready as you progress.

New

Use your secondary screens

Released: PanelSight fills your extra monitors with dedicated, touch-friendly instrument panels. The screens you already own, put to work.

Exploring

Career mode: airliners and helicopters

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

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.

This list follows what pilots ask for. Tell us what you want PanelSight to do for you: an aircraft we do not cover yet, a feature you miss, anything that would make your setup easier. Ask for it on Discord and we will read every request.

FAQ

Good questions

Which simulator does it support? +
PanelSight is built for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.
Do I need a second PC or special hardware? +
No. PanelSight runs on the same machine as the sim. No second PC, no special hardware. A spare monitor becomes a dedicated touch-friendly panel, and even that is optional: on a single screen, PanelSight pins a lightweight click-through overlay over the sim view instead. Even the rotary knobs need no add-on hardware: turn them with a finger on a touchscreen, or with the mouse wheel.
How do secondary screens work? +
Connect a monitor and start PanelSight: the screen fills edge-to-edge with your aircraft's panel, framed in a drawn bezel. By default it shows the PFD (or the analog six-pack on planes without glass). In Settings you choose what each monitor shows (PFD, MFD, six-pack, or on-screen tabs you tap to switch panels mid-flight), and PanelSight remembers your choice. It follows your aircraft automatically, supports several monitors at once, and touchscreens work like the real thing: turn knobs, press buttons, scroll lists and maps with a finger. Secondary screens are included in the free trial and with a license; the free Cessna 172 tier is the on-sim overlay only.
Will it hurt my frame rate? +
It's designed to be light. PanelSight doesn't change how the sim draws its picture, and it adds nothing to the sim itself. Its panels are ordinary windows on your desktop, so your GPU treats them like any other 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 your panels 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. PanelSight's panels are regular windows on your screens, so they show 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 advanced features such as secondary-screen panels are part of that license too, so the free Cessna 172 is the on-sim instrument overlay on its own.
What exactly does a license include? +
Everything PanelSight does today, for a single one-time payment: every supported general-aviation aircraft (the full list above, plus the new GA planes we keep adding) and advanced features such as secondary-screen panels, on one PC. General aviation means the small planes: trainers, bush planes, aerobatic planes, turboprops and light jets. If PanelSight later grows beyond that, into airliners, helicopters, or major new features, those may be offered as separate add-ons.
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 every other general-aviation aircraft, plus advanced features like secondary screens.
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. The changelog lists what changed in each version. For account, license, or refund questions, email support@panelsight.net.
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