PanelSight 1.3.6: The F/A-18E Super Hornet

PanelSight 1.3.6 supports the Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet, its first fighter jet. On the airliners, a program that holds some of the screens no longer takes the whole panel away, and the DHC-6 Twin Otter gets its GNS 530 back.

The F/A-18E Super Hornet

Before, PanelSight gave the Super Hornet its basic jet panel. Now it recognizes it and gives it a panel built from its own cockpit:

• Its five screens, copied from the sim: the left and right DDIs, the center MPCD, the up-front controller and the engine and fuel display. Tap the up-front controller's keys on a touchscreen, or click them, to use it.
• Its standby instruments, drawn on the Super Hornet's own dial faces: the attitude indicator, airspeed, altimeter and vertical speed.

The Super Hornet comes with every edition of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. Not there yet: the HUD and the helmet display.

Airliners keep their screens when other programs use MSFS

Some PCs run other programs that connect to MSFS while you fly, such as add-on tools and utilities. One of them can take over some of an airliner's screens, and then PanelSight can't copy those. Before, when that happened, every screen went off the panel after about 20 seconds.

Now the screens PanelSight can copy stay on the panel. A notice over the panel, and the same message in Settings, names the missing screens and says that another program is using them, naming that program when it can. If the program lets the screens go within about a minute, they appear by themselves. If not, close that program and restart PanelSight.

This applies to the Fenix A320 and to the A320neo, A321, A330, A310, 737 and 747, because their screens can't be popped out. Other aircraft already handled it: PanelSight switches them to pop-outs, which show every screen.

The DHC-6 Twin Otter's GNS 530

The Twin Otter's GNS 530 is back on the panel when PanelSight uses Direct copy. With pop-outs it stays off, because MSFS can't pop that screen out.

Who this is for

• If you fly the F/A-18E Super Hornet, it now has its own panel, with its five screens and its standby instruments.
• If you fly an airliner with other add-ons or tools connected to MSFS, your panel no longer goes blank when one of them holds a screen.
• If you fly the Twin Otter, its GNS 530 is back.

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 1.3.6, see the changelog.