PanelSight 1.3.4: The Fenix A320, plus the DA40 XLS and the PC-24

PanelSight 1.3.4 supports the Fenix A320 V3. It now gets its own panel, with the Fenix's screens and the A320's glareshield and pedestal controls. Two more aircraft are new: the COWS DA40 XLS and, as experimental, the Pilatus PC-24. The Cessna 172 (G1000) also gets cockpit controls you can put in your own layouts.

The Fenix A320

Before, PanelSight gave the Fenix A320 its basic jet panel, with drawn dials. Now it recognizes the Fenix by itself and gives it a panel built for it:

• Its screens on the panel, copied straight from the sim: the captain's flight display and navigation display, the engine and warning display, and the MCDU.
• Its controls, connected to the Fenix: the FCU, with the Fenix's live speed, heading and altitude windows, the EFIS control panels, the radio panels and the ECAM control panel. Pick them in the Instrument Switcher, or put them on an extra screen or in your own layouts.
• Working MCDU keypads. Tap the keys on a touchscreen, or click them, to type into the Fenix's MCDU.
• More of the Fenix's screens, for the Instrument Switcher, extra screens and layouts: the system display, the standby instrument, and the first officer's flight display, navigation display and MCDU.

All four versions of the Fenix A320 work, with either engine and either wingtip. Its screens need Direct copy, like the other airliners. 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).

Not there yet: the transponder panel, the overhead panel and the Fenix A319 and A321.

Two more new aircraft

• COWS DA40 XLS: now supported, with its G1000 screens, softkeys and knobs.
• Pilatus PC-24 (experimental): it gets the PC-12's glass panel, with the flight display, the two multi-function displays and the touch controller, plus the PC-12's autopilot panel, which is the same as the PC-24's. We built it from a capture a pilot sent us and haven't flown it ourselves yet, so expect some issues. If something is wrong, send it to us from Settings, with Help us support this aircraft…

Cockpit controls for the Cessna 172

On the Cessna 172 (G1000), the flight instruments are now the three standby gauges the real cockpit has, airspeed, attitude and altimeter, instead of a full six-pack.

New instruments for your own layouts, which look and work like the 172's controls:

• the flap lever, the throttle, the mixture and the trim wheel, which you move by dragging, with a finger or the mouse;
• the switch panel, with the master and avionics switches, the dimmers and the row of toggle switches;
• the lower panel, with the ignition key and the circuit breakers;
• the compass, the fuel selector and the parking brake.

Add them to a layout in the layout editor. If you have a 172 (G1000) layout that uses the flight-instrument block, check it: the block is now one row of three gauges, so you may want to resize it.

Other changes

• Aircraft PanelSight does not support yet now get their radios, transponder, course needle and ADF on the basic panel.
• Deleting the layout a screen is using now puts that screen back to its default straight away.

Who this is for

• If you fly the Fenix A320, it now has its own screens, FCU, radio panels and MCDU keypads.
• If you fly the DA40 XLS or the PC-24, PanelSight now supports your aircraft.
• If you fly the Cessna 172, you can build a layout with its flap lever, throttle, switches and breakers.

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 1.3.4, see the changelog.