PanelSight changelog
What changed in each version of PanelSight, newest first. The app checks for new versions on its own, tells you when one is out, and installs it with one click from Settings.
1.4.2
- Vision Jet: more of its controls are drawn, including the gear, flaps and power lever.
- Bug fixes:
- Instruments no longer start from a default after a panel switch.
- Hotkeys no longer block typing when the sim isn't running.
- E-Jets: no more thin gap in the MCDU screen.
1.4.1
- New aircraft: the FlightSim Studio E-Jets family (E170, E175, E190, E195, and the E190 and E195 freighters), with all their instruments.
- Keyboard shortcuts: MIDI button boxes (such as an Intech BU16) work as hotkeys.
- Keyboard shortcuts: the Hotkeys window names up to 5 matching aircraft, then "and N more", and no longer lists the ones that don't match.
1.4.0
- Keyboard shortcuts: a key or a controller button can set what each screen shows, all in one press.
- New aircraft:
- Guimbal Cabri G2
- A mystery airliner (to be unveiled soon)
- Knobs: the mouse wheel turns the outer ring or the inner knob, whichever is under the pointer, and lights it while the pointer rests there.
- Airliner screens no longer stay black or frozen after a flight restart.
- Browser screens: switching instruments on one no longer makes the others flicker.
1.3.8
- New aircraft:
- Bell UH-1H Iroquois (Taog's Hangar)
- Socata Rallye MS 893 (experimental)
- Another program connected to MSFS can block PanelSight from showing a glass screen. On every aircraft, PanelSight now keeps showing the other screens, tells you which one is missing and, when it can, which program is blocking it. Close that program and the screen comes back on its own within about half a minute, with no need to restart PanelSight.
- Aircraft without a panel of their own: each glass screen's frame now follows the shape the sim draws it in, so a screen like the Joby S4's controller is no longer cut off.
- Help us support this aircraft: the report now also says which screens the aircraft is running, its avionics option settings, and which add-on modules its screens use.
- Boeing 737 MAX radios: the NAV display is back, the VHF 1/2/3 keys work, and the transponder knobs turn.
- Airbus radio panels: the NAV key now lights on the A330 and Fenix A320, and the Fenix has its GLS and BFO keys.
- Fenix A320 ECAM panel: EMER CANC is now drawn as the red key it is, not a lamp that looked stuck on.
1.3.7
- PanelSight's accent color is now gold, matching the website.
- Help us support this aircraft: if you leave the email empty, it now says clearly that we cannot reach you.
1.3.6
- New aircraft: Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet.
- DHC-6 Twin Otter: its GNS 530 is back on the panel when screens are copied directly. With pop-outs it stays off, because MSFS cannot pop that screen out.
- Airliners (Fenix, A320neo, A321, A330, A310, 737, 747): if another program connected to MSFS is holding some of their screens, the ones PanelSight found stay on the panel instead of all of them disappearing. PanelSight names the program and the missing screens, and those appear as soon as the program lets them go.
1.3.5
- New aircraft, our first helicopters:
- Airbus H125
- Bell 407
- Redesigned layout editor: select several instruments (click or drag a box), line them up, make them the same size, space them evenly, and move them up or down a layer. Resize from any edge, snap to the gaps between instruments, and drag an instrument off to remove it. Very small instruments can always be moved and resized back.
- Airbus airliners:
- Fenix A320 and A320neo: the AUTO BRK keys with their lights, and the weather radar panel with the switch that clears PRED W/S OFF.
- Fenix A320: its transponder panel.
- Lettering closer to the real cockpit.
- Fenix A320: the captain's PFD and ND no longer go missing on some flight loads, and after restarting a flight the screens keep showing the right picture.
- Every Airbus finds its screens more reliably on every load.
- Pilatus PC-12 and PC-24: the softkeys down each side of the screens and the controller beside each PFD. The softkeys keep working when you swap the two MFDs.
- Knob popups no longer close when the mouse drifts slightly away.
- Instrument Switcher: on a short screen every tab now fits, instead of the last ones falling off the bottom.
- The GTN 650 and the King Air's G3X screens are now shown at their exact shape (they were slightly off).
- An add-on aircraft that only shares a name with one we support still gets that panel. Settings now says we have not confirmed it, and offers "Help us support this aircraft".
- When you fly an aircraft or version we have not seen before, PanelSight sends us a short record of its screens and controls, so we can support it. You can turn this off in Settings.
1.3.4
- New aircraft:
- Fenix A320 V3
- COWS DA40 XLS
- Pilatus PC-24 (experimental)
- Cessna 172 (G1000): the panel now shows the three standby gauges the real cockpit has. New instruments for your own layouts: flap lever, throttle, mixture, trim wheel, the switch panel, and the lower panel with the ignition key and circuit breakers.
- Cessna 172 (G1000) layouts: the flight-instrument block is now one row of three gauges, so a layout using it may need adjusting.
- Aircraft PanelSight does not support yet now get their radios, transponder, course needle and ADF.
- Deleting the layout a screen is using now puts that screen back to its default straight away.
1.3.3
- Fixed softkeys and knobs on some G1000 aircraft: menus now stay open after a click, and knobs move one step per click.
- Browser screens: phones and tablets now connect even when Windows calls your home network "public". If yours did not, press "Allow through Windows Firewall" again.
- A version more than 90 days old now asks you to update and stops working, with a reminder two weeks before. A version that is still the latest one keeps working.
1.3.2
- New aircraft:
- Heart Aerospace ES-30
- DC-3: a proper twin-engine panel, matched to the real cockpit.
- Your own layouts can now go on the main screen, not only on extra monitors.
- New "Sim rate" instrument for your layouts: shows the simulation rate (4x, 1/2x...) and stays hidden at 1x; tap it to go back to 1x.
- Extra monitors now start as the Instrument Switcher the first time.
- The layout editor is smooth while MSFS is running.
- Experimental support for the COWS DA40 XLS.
1.3.1
- New aircraft (Direct copy only, like the other Airbus):
- Airbus A310
- The overlay on the main screen stays the way you left it. Before, turning it off only lasted until PanelSight restarted.
- The tray menu now only has Settings and Exit.
- Settings is easier to read: no small text, lighter gray hints, and it follows Windows' Text size setting.
- Fixes:
- Browser screens: in a small window, such as a tablet in split screen, the options could end up off screen with no way to scroll to them.
- The Ctrl double-tap could hide the overlay while no flight was loaded.
1.3.0
- Browser screens (new, experimental): a phone, tablet or another computer's browser can now be an extra PanelSight screen, like a second monitor.
- Turn it on in Settings > Screens > Browser screens. Scan the QR code, or type the short address and click Allow on the request that appears in Settings.
- A connected browser then appears under Monitors, where you set its size and what it shows.
- It shows instruments and live glass, and you can use touch and the knob dials.
- New aircraft (Direct copy only, as with the A320neo and 737 MAX):
- Airbus A321LR
- Airbus A330 and Beluga XL
- Airliner panels redrawn from the real cockpits: the A320neo and A321LR now have their own autopilot panel (FCU), EFIS, MCDU and radio panels. The 737 MAX's panels are matched to its own cockpit too.
- CAP 10: adds its four-in-one engine gauges, both g-meters and the compass.
- PA-28 Dakota: adds its audio panel, so you can pick COM1 or COM2 and listen to stations from the panel.
- Settings has four tabs instead of one long page.
- Update reminders:
- They only come up while the aircraft is stopped on the ground.
- "Not now" hides them for 15 days, and there's a "Don't show again" button.
- You can turn on automatic updates, which only install while you aren't flying.
- Fixes:
- Direct copy screens could stutter at times, on a monitor or in a browser.
- A320: glass shown on a second screen could stay blank in some layouts.
- Picking an instrument with a screen switcher could sometimes change what another screen showed.
- GNS 530 (Dakota, DC-3, PC-6, Optica, Beaver): a thin strip at each side of its screen was cut off.
- A few keys on some aircraft did nothing, such as the Dakota's COM/VLOC push after the latest sim update.
- 737 MAX and 747-8 CDU: the EXEC light didn't come on when a change was waiting to be executed.
- Optica: its autopilot's altitude select stopped working after the aircraft's latest update.
- Settings could flicker while being dragged between a scaled and an unscaled monitor.
1.2.2
- New aircraft: Boeing 747-8. Its displays are copied straight from the sim (Direct copy), with its autopilot panel, EFIS, display select, CDU, radio and transponder drawn beside them.
- Bonanza G36: now has its standby airspeed, attitude and altimeter, and its flaps read UP / APR / DN like the real switch.
- Beaver: airspeed in MPH and fuel in imperial gallons, as its own gauges read.
- Direct copy: up to 15 screens per aircraft, and a little lighter on the sim.
- Fixes:
- The mouse wheel and clicks over the panel or its screens no longer reach the cockpit behind it.
- Clicks on a knob's dial no longer reach the cockpit when the dial opens beside its knob.
- An extra screen showing glass froze while the main panel was hidden.
- Draco X and AT-802: the flaps and trim gauges were missing.
1.2.1
- Direct copy is now what Automatic uses when your main monitor is on an NVIDIA graphics card. Other cards keep pop-outs; you can still pick either one by hand in Settings > Glass screens.
- Knob dials are the same physical size on every screen, and no longer cover the reading they change (the A320's autopilot panel, the baro setting). Tell PanelSight how big a screen is with "Set size" if it gets it wrong.
- Screens without a monitor ID (tablets used as extra screens, e.g. spacedesk) keep their panels after a reboot. If PanelSight is unsure which screen is which, it asks on the screen itself.
- Flying an aircraft we don't support yet: PanelSight asks for a capture only if we don't already have one.
- If an antivirus blocks or removes Direct copy, Settings says so and shows how to get it back, instead of saying it isn't installed.
- A320neo: smoother, less grainy panels.
- Fixes:
- 737 MAX and A320neo: a screen could stay blank on the first flight until you restarted the flight or PanelSight.
- Direct copy could give up and switch to pop-outs when one screen started switched off.
- Instrument Switcher: tabs stopped responding after the first pick.
- A320 MCDU / 737 CDU keyboard: typing stayed captured after switching away or hiding PanelSight, so the sim ignored the keyboard.
- Layout editor: dragging a panel past the left or right edge no longer empties the editor.
1.2.0
- Direct copy (new, experimental beta): PanelSight can now copy the glass screens straight from MSFS's graphics card instead of popping them out into windows.
- No pop-out windows: no camera moves or screen flicker while the screens come up.
- Lighter on the sim: it costs less frame rate than pop-outs.
- It shows screens that MSFS will not pop out at all, which is what makes the A320neo, the 737 MAX and the Extra 330LT possible.
- Turn it on in Settings > Glass screens > Direct copy. It is an experimental beta, so Automatic still uses pop-outs; if something looks wrong, switch back there and send us debug info.
- Tested on NVIDIA graphics.
- Smaller download: the installer is now about 7 MB, down from about 52 MB.
- Windows no longer warns that PanelSight comes from an "Unknown publisher" when you install it.
- Custom layouts:
- Every glass screen can be placed without its frame.
- Every screen an aircraft has can be used, including the second G3X on the VL-3, the copilot's displays on the TBM 930, C208B and PC-12, the DC-3's navigators and autopilot, and the Icon A5's touchscreen.
- Added support for the following aircraft (their screens need Direct copy):
- Airbus A320neo (experimental).
- Boeing 737 MAX 8 (experimental).
- Extra 330LT.
- Improved aircraft:
- PA-28 Dakota: panel redone from its cockpit, with its HSI, fuel computer, KT 76C transponder and KFC 225 autopilot.
- Zivko Edge 540 V2/V3: real race panels with Dynon screens.
- C185F: its own engine gauges and radio stack.
- AT-802: second COM and transponder.
- C152: transponder.
- Added instruments:
- KT 76A transponder.
- NARCO NAV radio.
- A320neo: autopilot panel, EFIS, MCDU, ECAM control panel, radio panels, standby instrument, transponder.
- 737 MAX: MCP, EFIS, CDU, radios.
- Knobs: a turn that starts on a step key now turns the knob; step keys show arrows and repeat steadily.
- Instruments: quieter outlines, no corner screws; rectangular instruments have correct 3-D shading.
- New: "Send us debug info" in Settings.
- Fixes:
- Windows open no bigger than their screen, with the title bar on it.
- The GNS range key moves the map one step per press, not two.
- Glass screens no longer go black or reappear on a monitor when monitors are added or moved.
- No memory growth in the tray while MSFS is closed.
- A busy license server no longer makes a valid key read as rejected.
- Vision Jet autothrottle indicator.
1.1.4
- Instruments:
- Round dials have a subtle 3-D finish.
- Optimized gauge rendering to use 25% less CPU.
- Drawn gauges have no measurable impact on the sim's frame rate.
- The attitude indicator has a knob to set the miniature aircraft, follows the aircraft's own setting, and has a blue and brown bank ring.
- Round dials have clearer numbers and darker green and yellow bands, and no longer show "-0".
- The KAP 140 autopilot and the Bendix/King radios share one look, with light keys; the DC-3's KAP 140 keeps dark keys, as in the aircraft.
- Added support for the following aircraft:
- C400 Corvalis.
- CGS Hawk Arrow II.
- DA40 NG.
- DHC-6 Twin Otter.
- Grumman Goose.
- MXS-R.
- PC-6 Porter.
- Pitts S1S and Pitts S2S.
- Powrachute Sky Rascal.
- Added instruments:
- Garmin GTX 330 transponder.
- Garmin GTR 225 COM radio.
- Trig TY92 COM radio and TT21 transponder.
- PGM1212 digital accelerometer.
- Three-in-one engine gauge.
- Engine information display.
1.1.3
- New aircraft:
- Cessna 172 with classic steam gauges: now has a panel of its own instead of the basic one, with its engine gauges, the six-pack with a heading bug, the NAV 2 and ADF dials, the GNS 530 and GNS 430, and the radios below.
- Radios & autopilot:
- Added the Bendix/King KAP 140 autopilot, with its display and keys, to the Optica, DC-3, Twin Otter, and classic C172.
- Added the Bendix/King KR 87 ADF radio to the C185F and the classic C172.
- Added the Bendix/King KT 76C transponder to the P-51, T-6, and classic C172.
1.1.2
- Fixes:
- Starting a flight with the aircraft's screens switched off no longer leaves the panel with empty screens for the rest of the flight. PanelSight now shows the panel with dark screens and brings the screens in as soon as the avionics are powered.
1.1.1
- Aircraft that are not supported yet:
- PanelSight now tells you when your aircraft is not supported yet, with a notice on the panel and a line in Settings, instead of silently showing a basic panel.
- Added "Help us support this aircraft" in Settings: it photographs the cockpit for you and sends it to us, with an optional email so we can tell you when it is supported.
- On the basic flight-instrument panel, the airspeed dial is now scaled to your aircraft with its stall-speed marks, and a fuel gauge sized to its tanks was added.
- Reaching PanelSight from inside the sim:
- Tap Ctrl three times to open Settings. Two taps still show or hide the panel.
- While MSFS is running, PanelSight stays minimized on the taskbar and in Alt+Tab, so it can be reached without the tray.
- Flaps:
- TBM 930: Added a flaps indicator.
- The selected flap setting is now shown at the aircraft's real flap angle: newly shown on the XCub, NXCub, VL-3, King Air 350i, Bonanza G36, DA62, AT-802, CL-415, Beaver, and Optica, and corrected on the PA-28, C185F, DC-3, DR400, CAP 10, T-6, Savage Cub, P-51, Draco X, and C208B.
- DR400: Corrected the airspeed dial's color bands and scale to match the aircraft.
- Layout editor:
- Pressing Enter no longer saves and closes the editor; each page tab has a pencil to rename it.
- The resize corner, attach points, and names stay a usable size on 4K monitors.
- Stretching an instrument past the screen edge no longer blanks the page and leaves it impossible to fix.
- A hint bar now tells you the next step, the Spread, Grow to fit, and Magic wand buttons explain what they do, and a clear "This page / All pages" switch replaces the old confusing button.
- Problems now say which page they are on, and page tabs mark warnings as well as errors.
- An instrument that overlaps a glass screen now sits under it with a note, instead of being refused as an error.
- Fixes:
- Open windows such as Layouts no longer get in the way while glass screens are being popped out, and come back afterwards.
1.1.0
- Custom layouts for extra monitors:
- Added a Layouts window to choose, per aircraft, what each extra monitor shows, and an editor to build your own layouts, with snapping and a plain warning when a layout has errors and will not be shown.
- The TBM 930, Citation Longitude, and PC-12 NGX can now place their touch controllers in a layout.
- Settings now lists each connected extra monitor with its default layout.
- Added a Glass 4 position for extra monitors, so the PC-12 NGX's touch controller can have a monitor of its own.
- Bezels:
- Gave the GNS 430 its own bezel instead of the GNS 530's, with a screen that fills the frame and no dead VNAV key.
- TBM 930, Vision Jet, and Citation Longitude: removed the empty strip under the screens, making the screens a little bigger and the soft keys shorter.
- TBM 930 autopilot bar: moved LVL inside the bar and made it the right color, and lit modes now show a white bar beside their key, as in the aircraft.
- Fixes:
- Vision Jet: restored the outer ring and push on the touch controller's frequency knob, and the push on its MENU/DATA knob.
- Twin Otter: stopped showing an empty GNS 530 frame that MSFS never fills.
1.0.13
- New autopilot controls:
- Cirrus Vision Jet: Added the autopilot and autothrottle controllers.
- XCub, NXCub, and Draco X: Added the Garmin GMC 507.
- TBM 930 and King Air 350i: Added the glareshield autopilot bar.
- PC-12 NGX: Added the Honeywell guidance panel.
- Radios & instruments:
- Added the Bendix/King KX 155 nav/com radio to the C152, C185F, and DR400, as well as the DR400's missing CDI.
- Added 6-PACK and NAV tabs to the Instrument Switcher on the C152, C185F, and DR400.
- Fixes:
- Fixed the autopilot UP/DN/VNV keys on the G1000 PFD for the Bonanza G36, DA40, DA62, Corvalis, and C208B Grand Caravan.
- Touch improvements:
- Enlarged all interaction areas to make them easier to tap on touchscreens.
- Updated knob dragging so it turns based on touch distance at a constant rate, allowing continuous turning with straight swipes.
- Redesigned the + and − step buttons to clearly look like interactive buttons rather than static labels.
- User interface improvements:
- Added a subtle light edge to every panel to improve contrast against dark cockpits.
- Deferred automatic update checks until the simulator closes so update notices appear when visible.
1.0.12
- Revamped the Settings window.
- Since it's grown quite a bit, added scrolling instead of cutting off content that doesn't fit.
- Added a real minimize button (to the title bar), which the window never had.
- Added Exit, Restart, and Check for Updates buttons.
- Renamed the Minimize to tray button to Close to tray.
- Added a Re-open pop-outs button beside Close all pop-outs, which until now was a one-way door: the screens stayed closed until the aircraft was reloaded or the app restarted.
- Replaced the secondary-screen roles (PFD, MFD) with positions: Glass 1, Glass 2, Glass 3, also renamed the PFD/MFD switcher to Instrument Switcher, both to avoid sloppy nomenclature.
- Fixed press-and-hold with a finger on the knob interaction area, which acted as a tap regardless of how long it was held.
- Fixed the keys under the knob interaction area going dead for a couple of seconds on touch screens after tapping to dismiss it.
- Made the frequency knob on the G3000 and G5000 touchscreen controller swap standby and active while you hold it, instead of when you let go.
1.0.11
- Revamped knob interaction on touch screens.
- A tap now leaves the interaction area open until you tap elsewhere (it used to close on a timeout).
- Added +/- buttons that advance exactly one step, making up for the missing feel of a physical detent.
- Added a click as knobs turn, with its own volume control.
- Fixed an error that sometimes made the interaction area comically oversized.
- Fixed a single tap acting twice on touch screens, which made some controls toggle on and straight back off.
- Fixed the GNS 430/530 range rocker and the GNS CLR key: short press and press-and-hold now work.
- Let an aircraft whose only display is a GNS 430 fill the PFD slot, and stopped a mid-flight change blanking that screen.
- Gave the King Air 350i's two G3X displays their own PFD and MFD slots, so both can be put on a monitor and neither collapses out of the instrument switcher.
- Added gauge knobs: altimeter Kollsman drum and baro knob, CDI OBS knobs, and a directional gyro heading knob — turn to correct drift, push to align to magnetic.
- Made update checks run hourly instead of only once at startup.
Release notes on this page start with version 1.0.11. PanelSight 1.0.0 was released in July 2026.