PanelSight 1.2.2: The Boeing 747-8 arrives

PanelSight 1.2.2 brings the Boeing 747-8, our third modern airliner, with its own panel. It also gives the Bonanza G36 its standby instruments, shows the Beaver's gauges in the units its cockpit uses, and stops the mouse wheel over a panel from reaching the cockpit behind it.

The Boeing 747-8

The 747-8 now has a panel of its own. Before, PanelSight showed it with the basic jet panel: a few round dials and none of its screens.

• Its screens, copied straight from the sim: the captain's flight display and map, the upper engine display and the CDU on the main panel. The lower engine display and the first officer's displays are there for extra screens and your own layouts.
• Its controls, drawn to match the real ones: the mode control panel, the EFIS and the display select panel across the glareshield, the CDU keypad, the radio tuning panel and the transponder.

Like the A320neo and the 737 MAX 8, the 747-8 is experimental: its panel is new, so expect some issues, and tell us about them. Its screens need Direct copy. On an NVIDIA graphics card, Automatic already uses it. On other cards, open Settings and, under Pop-outs, set Glass screens to Direct copy (no pop-outs).

Bonanza G36 and Beaver

• Bonanza G36: the panel now has the standby airspeed, attitude and altimeter that sit to the right of the real aircraft's displays, and the flaps read UP, APR and DN, like the switch in the cockpit.
• DHC-2 Beaver: airspeed is in miles per hour and fuel in imperial gallons, the units printed on its own gauges. Before, the airspeed needle read low and the fuel needles read high.

The mouse wheel stays on the panel

Before, if you turned the mouse wheel over a glass screen or the frame around it, the sim could zoom the cockpit view behind the panel. Clicks on the frame also went through to the cockpit. Now the wheel and the clicks stay on the panel, wherever PanelSight draws something. The gaps between instruments still let clicks through to the sim, as before.

When you open a knob's dial beside its knob, clicks on the dial also no longer reach the cockpit.

Other changes

• Direct copy can now show up to 15 screens per aircraft, and it copies a screen only when the sim has drawn a new picture on it, so it is a little lighter on the sim.
• An extra screen that shows glass screens no longer freezes while the main panel is hidden.
• Draco X and AT-802: the flaps and trim gauges are back.

Who this is for

• If you fly the 747-8, it now has its own screens and controls, with Direct copy.
• If you fly the Bonanza G36 or the Beaver, their panels now match their cockpits more closely.
• If you use a mouse with PanelSight, the wheel and clicks over a panel no longer move the cockpit view behind it.
• If you show glass screens on an extra monitor, they keep running when you hide the main panel.

How to update

PanelSight checks for new versions by itself. When one is out, a notice appears next to the PanelSight icon in the Windows taskbar. Click the notice, then click Update now in Settings. PanelSight downloads the update, installs it and starts again on its own. You can also run the installer from the download page again.

Updating always installs the newest version, which includes everything in this release.

For every change in 1.2.2, see the changelog.