PanelSight 1.3.1: The Airbus A310, and an overlay that stays off

PanelSight 1.3.1 adds the Airbus A310, with a panel drawn from its own cockpit. It also remembers when you turn the overlay off on your main screen, makes Settings easier to read, and fixes browser screens in small windows.

The Airbus A310

Before, PanelSight showed the A310 with the basic jet panel. It now has a panel of its own, laid out in the order of the real cockpit:

• Its screens, copied straight from the sim: the captain's flight display and navigation display, and the engine and warning display.
• Its dials and controls, drawn to match the real ones: the airspeed, altimeter, vertical speed and standby instruments, the slats and flaps indicator, the engine dials, the autopilot panel and EFIS panels on the glareshield, and the captain's CDU.
• For extra screens and your own layouts: the system display, the first officer's displays and CDU, the CDUs with their full keypads, the ECAM control panel, the radios and the VOR and ILS panels.

Like the other airliners, the A310 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, go to the Glass tab and set Mirroring method to Direct copy (no pop-outs).

The overlay stays the way you left it

If you turn off Show the overlay on the main screen on the General tab of Settings, it now stays off. Before, it came back every time PanelSight started. This is useful if you use only extra screens and don't want a panel over the sim view. Hiding the overlay with a double tap on Ctrl during a flight is remembered too.

With no flight loaded, the Ctrl double tap now does nothing, so a stray key press can no longer hide the overlay before you fly.

Settings is easier to read

Settings has no small text any more, and its grey hints are lighter, so they are easier to read. Settings also follows the Text size setting of Windows: if you made text larger in Windows, Settings is larger too.

The menu of the PanelSight icon in the Windows taskbar now has only Settings… and Exit. To show or hide the overlay, use the checkbox in Settings or the Ctrl double tap.

Browser screens in small windows

In a small browser window, such as a tablet in split screen, the browser screen options could end up off screen with no way to scroll to them. They are now always within reach, and the screen is laid out for the size of its window.

Who this is for

• If you fly the A310, it now has its own screens, dials and controls, with Direct copy.
• If you use only extra screens, the overlay on your main screen now stays off.
• If you have made text larger in Windows, Settings now follows it.
• If you use a tablet in split screen, the browser screen options are always within reach.

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 1.3.1, see the changelog.