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If you mean the city, yes, it does. However.... Kingston is an AI-autogen city, meaning they don't have proper photogrammetry data. All streets are there. Every single building in Kingston (and the world) is there. The footprint of the building is accurate, the height is accurate (from open source map data) although the building itself will just be a generic asset modified by AI to fit its footprint and fit the area. So residential areas will have houses, commercial / industrial will have correct type of building. That said, other cities that do have proper photogrammetry data like Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and other large major cities, will have all the correct buildings at correct heights. I now use a 3rd party model for the airport that is a detailed recreation of CYGK including the interiors of the terminals, correct signage, etc.

You can go into the G1000 settings for the MFD and turn on / off all kinds of layers. Dig through the menus and you'll find it.

Main screens are 22". The pedestal and left side screen are 15.6"

You can use a USB C to A cable like you would a normal phone charger. That works just fine. That's what I use with both my Wimaxit monitors.

The sim doesn't support touch input natively. Look into Popout Panel Manager, a 3rd party add on. It will automatically pop out and place your windows for you, and gives you the option to have touch support as well so you can use the GTCs as intended - with touch.

@@ottopilot6536 That did it! Thank you so much!

Glad to hear you got it all working, @@joellouisfire

My throttle isn't working quite the way is like it to unfortunately.

I want toi build an actual pedestal for that screen and potentially lower the Bravo quadrant on it as well. However, I'm waiting till I get my cockpit in its more final form before I do that. So for now, the Honeycomb boxes are the perfect size to serve as a makeshift stand for that monitor!

The panels showcased here are from experimentalsimavionics.com/ THere are a bunch of free instruments available at www.simstrumentation.com, including a lot of these TBM instruments. Note you need a registered copy of Air Manager for this to all work.

Microsoft Flight Simulator.

@@ottopilot6536 thanks

Yes, it's compatible. Everything works as expected.

@@ottopilot6536 Thanks. I also contacted the developer and they confirmed this as well.

@@davidhutchison2202 I've not flown the Longitude extensively, but have taken it out on several flights with Tony's panels. There were no issues that I found with the Longitude. Everything works as expected. About Tony's comment on the potential compatibility. His original Longitude video where he introduced the panels pre-dated the release of AAU I which completely overhauled the Longitude. AAU I was in beta at the time he launched that video. Tony has slow internet, so he doesn't join the betas. So he had to wait until it was available to the public. His assessment was correct. His original instruments at that time would have had issues with AAU I. However, he updated everything to make it compatible before his public release.

I'd say for an airliner overhead, the largest touch screen you can readily get would be the best. A 24" would likely do it. Not sure what bigger models may be available or not. As for how to mount it, I'm really unsure.

@Otto Pilot Otto Pilot Thanks Otto Pilot. A 24" I think it would be good. For the mount I'll use a wall mount bracket. So I need Air Manager subscription to do it? Thanks in advance Otto Pilot.

@@ronloveflying The demo version of AM only allows you to use the demo 6-pack instrument panel. So yes, you need a paid license in order to use any other instruments and panel layouts.

Outside of the computer I already had, my current setup costs roughly what 10 hours of real life flying lessons would cost. That would get me roughly 25% of the way to an actual license. I think it's worth it. That's a drop in the bucket compared to what some folks spend on building elaborate home cockpits.

Not really. I do both and simming is definitely cheaper even with a setup like this

My 2 main touch screens for my main Air Manager panels are Planar Helium 22", and the pedestal and side screens are 15.6" Wimaxit. These 2 smaller screens used to be my primary Air Manager panel screens before I upgraded last winter.

Yes. This is a payware panel and instrument set from experimentalsimavionics.com/ for 20 USD. Totally worth it IMHO. To be clear, this isn't one of my instrument sets. All Simstrumentation stuff is free, and we have no sights on making this plane. We do have the GTC 570 and G5000, but we're not doing the rest of this plane.

Unfortunately, there's still no touch in the sim. And according to one of the devs that replied to me on the devsupport forum, this won't be happening any time soon - if ever. I use Popout Panel Manager (available on flightsim.to) to manage popouts. It gives you the the option of enabling touch support on popouts with a touch to mouse emulation layer. It adds a touch of input latency to touch input on the GTCs, but it does work incredibly well.

@@ottopilot6536 If ever?. That sad, but thank you for the tips :)

​@@MrJon79 This is the dev's reply: "we would need to add proper support in our input system in general, which represents a bit of work. This is in our backlog but I don't expect it to be available any time in the near future." Not saying it won't happen. But it's WAY at the bottom of their list of priorities atm. And it seems that the latest and greatest add-ons, DLC, etc always seem to take priority. So it may be a long time coming. If ever.

Dude! I was wondering what happened to you. You just vanished from Facebook and that was our means of contact. We never did get to do that other flight together. I'd been looking forward to that! Otherwise, all is good here. Would be great to catch up with you again.

@@ottopilot6536 Man o man, we got some catching up to do.

It's too difficult to make layouts that will work for everyone. I run (currently) a pair of 22" touch screens plus a pair of 15.6". Unless people are using that same setup, my layouts are useless. People use everything from tablets, 13" screens, 15", and less commonly, larger screens. To try to make layouts that will work for everyone is an exercise in futility.

Likely I was using the mouse for something other than control of the plane though. Unfortunately still have to use that to control other software. As for the Knobster items, I use a dual encoder from Propwash Simulations and an Arduino Nano (ATMega 325 chip). They can be bought anywhere online and are dirt cheap. Small plastic project boxes come in various shapes and sizes and can be found on Amazon. I used some I already had kicking around from a project I did like 5-6 years back.

@@ottopilot6536 Thank you for your response and tips. Have a great day and fun simming.

Hi, Joe. Thank you again for replying to my previous comment (regarding use of mouse, etc.) awhile back. By the way, thank you for having such a great interview with Ivan, as that was thoroughly enjoyable. I know the aviation community is pretty strong and I'm learning the sim aspect is just as strong. Didn't realize that you, Ivan and Russ are all familiar with one another. Awesome. So, my question now is regarding the knobster earlier mentioned. You mentioned to me about the setup for DIY you did. Could I ask which of the plastic boxes (on Amazon) you would recommend for the knobster? Also, how difficult is it to get it made as I'm not too crafty on those kinds of things dealing with electronic-wise. I can highly detail plastic / diecast models with paint, etc., but electronics....not so much. Thank you and have a great day. -- Matthew

@@MI325A The project boxes were small 3 x 2 x 1.5" I think. Just wide enough to fit in an Arduino Nano. Although if you're really not comfortable with electronics, buying a Knobster would likely be a better idea than building one. As far as electronics projects go, they're not terribly complicated. But they do require accurate soldering.

@@ottopilot6536 Hi, Joe. Thank you for your thoughts as I probably will just purchase one that is already made. Here's the problem or issue I just realized. Perhaps you can offer insight on it, as I'm reading conflicting articles. A little more background....Currently, I have 2 iPads (minis, which suit me fine in regards to size and availability of space). Both have AM installed and seem to be fully functional in sending / receiving data between each other and my computer. One for the Cessna 6 pack and associated gauges; the other for the radio stack and the smaller GPS (can't recall names exactly at the moment), etc. So, what I've read is that the Knobster will NOT work on iPad version of AM. I will need to pay a monthly (or 1 time purchase of like $245) subscription based software called Duet for that to enable compatibility. To avoid that option, can I purchase the computer version of AM and be able to pop out (as you described) the panels to the iPads for the Knobster to work correctly, or am I needing to disregard the iPad and go with straight touchscreen monitors? Yes, some may think it is "cheap"; but I look at it as being resourceful with money versus options so that I can do more with the money rather than pay more for.... redundancy. In short, what am I, or what is my best option, to do in order to utilize the Knobster - based off of what I currently have? Sorry for the confusion (if any) and rambling on. I'm just trying to give the best mental picture in hopes that I can help you ... help me. 😀 Thank you again. Take care and have a great day. -- Matthew

We do have smaller bezels for the CJ4, and I THINK we did that for the CRJ as well. You're right though. I could easily make some more screen real estate with the Vision Jet with thinner bezels for the G3000. If I were on a small screen, I'd consider it. But I have plenty of space on these 22" screens that everything is large enough to be easily usable and readable.

Well, unfortunately that's not much info to go on. Several smaller uncontrolled airports have no ground or tower, but have ATIS. So I don't know. At the time I shot this, I wasn't using any ATC add-ons. Nowadays I use PIlot2ATC. As for running Air Manager on another computer, you most certainly can. No reason you can't. Although if you use sim popouts for things like GPS and such, you can't bring those screens over to a separate computer.

@@ottopilot6536 I had read that it is possible to improve FPS with 2 computers. I’m using only 3 tv’s and 2 touchscreens with Honeycombs. Air Manager is super and I’m trying to master the Msfs pop out software, trying to eliminate mouse n keyboard. Thank you for the many contributions to our sim flying you have made. I’ll look into Pilot2ATC also..

@@clofland5214 On a sim like Xplane, you're able to run the software itself across multiple computers. You can run the main simulation on one machine, and run the displays off another. This goes a long way towards improving overall performance and frame rate. MSFS doesn't have the capability to do that unfortunately. As for running Air Manager, it's a pretty low resource application and itself won't affect your performance in any meaningful way. Moving it to another computer limits the versatility of your cockpit (no more popout windows from the sim in Air Manager) and gains you very little in terms of performance.

Thank you for that very good advice. I have a xplane12 loaded but not very familiar with xplane as I am with Msfs..".

The 2 main touch screens my panels are on are Planar Helium 22".

I use ASUS 21.5 Touchscreen. Works fine. Around $200. The Planar is probably a better product but more expensive. You might even consider Dell 24". If you fly VJ then there is no yoke in the way and 24' might be better.

@@DownTheRabbit-Hole Indeed. Planar are a good choice not necessarily because they're better, but because they have the kickstand mount. They can sit flat on a table / desk without needing any special mounts, as well as having standard VESA mounting holes. Overall for touch panels for AM, it's really about fitting the biggest you can fit into your budgetary and size restrictions.

Just Air Manager overlays. Simstrumentation do MSFS only. Although with all the heavy lifting done in terms of graphics and interaction, it would be easy for someone in the community to add the events and / or datarefs from XP to any of our stuff. And some folks have.

Someone has produced a set of instruments for the Fenix.

Different birds for different missions. But in the end, FlightFX planes are really outstanding. Once they can incorporate the new AAU I G3000 into the HJet, it will no longer need those hacks to get the EIS and PFD split screen. At that point, I think it will have hit its stride properly.

@@ottopilot6536 After that last update he put out this thing is a blast to fly. So much so that I've left my Baron in the hangar and not pulled it out in the last 80 hrs of flight time. I've got 113 hrs on the HJet right now. I've been flying pretty much all day everyday since then. With the work you did on the GTC's it's a lot more fun. I need to get back on the Vision Jet again though. This is a very happy old man now. Too many toys to play with. The only redeeming quality of being stuck in this infernal chair is I get to fly to my heart's content. LOL

Unfortunately not.

I built that bezel for the G1000 NXi. It's now available in the AM community store and has been for quite some time.

There aren't any that I know of. We haven't made any like this. I remember briefly trying the Virus when the sim first launched, so I'd really have to go in an take a look at what the cockpit looks like.

Look at this link. It's the official info directly from Sim Innovations. siminnovations.com/wiki/index.php?title=Knobster_DIY

@@ottopilot6536 Wow ~ thanks a ton for the quick reply and link 👍

Indeed, Larger screen size and more real estate for instruments. I just recently got a pair of 22" touch screens and it's just amazing. I can have panel layouts in real life size for most planes.

The ones I'm using in this video are Wimaxit 15.6" touch. I've now replaced my 2 main screens with larger 22" Planar Helium. You can search for either of those on Amazon.

Yes you can