PanelSight 1.3.2: The ES-30, a new DC-3 panel, and layouts on the main screen

PanelSight 1.3.2 adds the Heart Aerospace ES-30, and with it PanelSight now supports every general aviation airplane and every airliner that comes with MSFS 2024 Standard. The DC-3 also gets a proper twin-engine panel. Your own layouts can now go on the main screen, not only on extra monitors, and a new Sim rate instrument shows when the sim runs faster or slower.

The Heart Aerospace ES-30

The ES-30 was the last airliner of MSFS 2024 Standard that PanelSight did not support. Before, it got the basic turboprop panel. It now has a panel of its own:

• Its screens, copied straight from the sim: the captain's flight display, the multi-function display and the touch controller beside them.
• Its controls, drawn to match the real ones: the autopilot panel on the glareshield, the caution and warning unit with its lights, and the landing gear indicator.
• For extra screens and your own layouts: the standby instrument, the baro unit, the first officer's flight display, touch controller and caution unit.

A new panel for the DC-3

The DC-3 used a panel made for single-engine aircraft. It now has a twin-engine panel of its own, matched to the real cockpit:

• The engine dials show both engines, with one needle for each: manifold pressure, RPM, oil and fuel pressure, and the oil, cylinder and carburetor temperatures.
• The flight instruments, the navigation dials and the hydraulic and outside air temperature dials are redrawn to look like the aircraft's own.
• The radios are now the DC-3's Collins radios, for COM, NAV, ADF and the transponder.
• Instruments the real cockpit doesn't have are gone.

Your layouts on the main screen

Until now, your own layouts could only go on extra monitors. Now you can also use one on the screen the sim runs on, in place of the standard panel. Place the instruments anywhere on the screen: between them, your clicks still go to the sim.

To do it, open Settings, go to the Screens tab and click Custom layouts…. The main screen is now first in the list. Choose one of your layouts for it, or Standard panel to go back to the usual panel. You choose for each aircraft, as for extra monitors. This works with the free Cessna 172 (G1000) overlay too.

A Sim rate instrument

A new instrument for your layouts shows the simulation rate, such as 4x or 1/2x. At normal speed (1x) it is hidden, so it only appears when the sim runs faster or slower. Click or tap it to go back to 1x. It is on no panel by default: add it to a layout in the layout editor.

Other changes

• Extra monitors start as the Instrument Switcher: on a new install, the extra monitor that PanelSight turns on by itself now shows the Instrument Switcher, so you pick what it shows on the monitor itself. Screens you have already set up are not changed.
• The layout editor is smooth while MSFS is running. Before, it could stutter when you moved instruments.
• Experimental support for the COWS DA40 XLS.

Who this is for

• If you fly the ES-30, it now has its own screens and controls.
• If you fly the DC-3, its panel now has both engines and looks like its cockpit.
• If you fly on one screen, you can now build the panel you want for it.
• If you use time acceleration, the Sim rate instrument shows it and takes you back to 1x.

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 1.3.2, see the changelog.