What the heck is Air Manager and why care?
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- čas přidán 3. 07. 2024
- A short video summary of the Sim Innovations products including Air Manager, Air Player for PC and Raspberry Pi, and Tablet Air Manager. A look at their capability and versatility and why you may want some of these programs in your home simulator bag of tricks.
Thanks Russ. You put me down this route and I'm forever thankful
This video has been needed for quite some time. As always, outstanding content!
Man this is what "experience" is all about. They way you logically explain things in detail without creating confusion is a work of art! Thank you!
Spot on, Russ. Air Manager IS an amazing tool for simmers, and the knobster works wonderfully well. Outstanding products!
Thanks, I will look into expanding my sim with these helpful tips.
The more I learn the more fantastic this all is to this 65 year old non technical guy. One of my first questions was how can I interact with my controls if I am wearing a head set. I saw some videos on actually reproducing the cockpit of say a Cessna 172 into a panel or panels. I was blown away that this gentleman bought every display hard wear that goes in to that 172 Cessna cockpit and he did have a stick instead of a yoke and he had landing gear, though he did not need it for the Cessna 172 except the radio, though I might be wrong about the radio display.
A big HELLO from CYQT.
WOW ... LOVE it.
THANK YOU for sharing this information.
I'm definitely going to move to this format for my sim.
👍🇨🇦👍
Been using and enjoying many of your instruments, Russ!
Joined just 2 days ago, and it's been a Disney Land for me.
I just hope more MSFS2020 instruments will be made available like they are for other simulators.
Keep up the awesome work!
Have you seen my recent video on Simstrumentation panels? czcams.com/video/9NuS-W_XHAE/video.html
What a great promo! I am honoured that you included my cockpit in there despite the fact its a work in progress! Speaking of which, I am looking to buy a better GPU for my side screens. I should be able to get a smooth experience on all screens then.
As far as I'm concerned Air Manager is an absolute must have for home flight simulation.
That was an awesome vid Russ!!! Just what the doctor ordered!!
Never heard of Air Manager before. I'm all over it and will be moving forward! Very cool!
Follow up: Holy cow, I bought a touchscreen monitor, but it adds a TON even on a two regular monitor setup. WELL worth the price! I think the problem is that you have to use it to appreciate it. If anyone is on the fence, try it... It is awesome.
This video convinced me! Gonna try it out! Thanks!
Fully recommended for X-Plane 11! I used AM in my Cessna 172 based flight sim build. It works great. Even on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ I've gotten about 20-25 fps on a 20" FHD display, plenty enough for VFR flights and the necessary C172SP instruments.
Great software 👌!!! I have the Android/Tablet version and it runs awesome!! In the future will also try the desktop version since it has more panels options. Great video!!
Nice video as always.
Awesome thank you very much, that's going to save loads of time and money.
Great Video
I use the Zibo overhead panel and the radio panel...both o touch screen monitors...works flawlessly on XP 11
Love Air Manager..... I run it In most all my flights 👍🏼
I picked up both Air Manager, & Knobster over Christmas thanks to your videos! I love the overlays for the g1000 you created, any chance there will be one for the G3x on the way? I was thinking of creating one myself, but think it will take me to long to learn the coding.
Dang, that looks like a good ui to set things up
Hey!!! I got a shout out!!! @8:35 😆👌🔥🔥
I'm having trouble saving a project. I've tried cloning, when I open I have to resize and position the instruments once again. Is there a save button somewhere I'm not seeing. Also getting it to open when I open airmanager....
When will the knobster be able to be used without airmanager in msfs2020
I have a rhetorical question. Whose bright idea was it to but the blue screen message on the 530 and 430??? It wasn't broken!
hey russ! Ive been using your 530 overlay on air manager and for the most post it works amazing. The one issue i have with it is that when i try to swap the co frequencies the button only works some of the time with xplane. Is there a way to fix this? this is the only button that does this everything else works on the first click. thank :)
Great work Russ. Flew with a Navy SH-60 check pilot last week that said, from the cockpit, "Just discovered Airmanager"... ;-) I'm building a hardware G1000 C172 AATD... But I want to add the Hotstart TBM 900. Want to collaborate?
Please help I know how to pop out instrument by placing the cursor on pfd and press right alt button and it pops out. Now its not doing that, it worked a while now it won't
are there any setting that i deleted by mistake
I have to admit, I held of buying this software for years, due to cist and all because I never knew it could do all what's mentioned in the video and don't beed the app version, if you don't want it. Because you can add screen to you PC usingcUSB to Hdmi adaptor to save main GPU FPS or via Deskspace remote desktop app and a USB lead, with an Andriod Tablet. Extending your displays to run the windows version of Air Manager.
Does it work with XBox version of the FS2020?
This looks absolutely amazing. Do you know if air manager can be used with space sims and racing games?
No by it has plugins currently for MSFS XP P3D FSX and AeroFly. You could contact Sim Innovations a nd if you have a good sized user base they might build a plugin hot your sim.
Hi Russ thanks you for all the great info you’ve really help me bring my sim to life, but I’m struggling with one thing, I’m making a Avro Vulcan mip and I can’t seem to figure out how set up the engine gauges, I can get one on the left and right side working but not four separate gauges? Any help would be much appreciated, kind regards John
Really need to know more and tough to help not having the airplane to explore.
Russ - I see Air Manager has a lot of instruments for X-Plane, but not nearly as many for MSFS 2020. How easy is it to convert an instrument created for X-Plane and use it in MSFS 2020 instead?
Go to Simstrumentation.com
A group of guys have created Instruments for MSFS airplanes
Just a quick question. I've checked around, but haven't found a definitive answer. Are there any potential conflicts between Air Manager and Spad.Next? I want to leverage Spad.Next for Saitek Radio Panel and flight controls (Honeycomb Alpha/Bravo etc) and Air Manager/Knobster/Touch for panel and gauges. I assume that as long as there is no overlap in control of vars/datarefs it should be ok?
I do not think there should be a compatibility problem but if you want to be sure you can download AM 4.0 and the plug in for your sims from the Sim Innovations wiki and run it in the demo mode. You are limited to a basic six pack of instruments but you can be sure it will play nice with spad.next. I haven’t heard anyone complain it doesn’t. Then if things are good you can just purchase a license and activate the copy you are using in demo mode to have full functionality and access to the almost 1000 free instruments. Let me know what you find.
@@rbarlow Thanks for the reply will do. Trying to minimize number of plugins. Currently have Alpha/Bravo, StreamDeck, Class Echo, Saitek Radio Panel, and Thrustmaster TPR. Class Echo is currently only item that requires Spad.Next, although may be going away from it. Echo is nice but not open source or open to customization. You get what you get. Interoperability is one of those things not well covered. And not just for AM and Spad.Next, but others such as Lorbys AAO and Mobiflight, etc. Hoping the two play well as Air Manager is mostly display focused and Spad.Next is mostly control focused. Will let you know. Kind of committed as I've ordered the touch/knobster kit from FlightVelocity :)
Thank you for this...so to be clear...If I'm running my sim on 1 desktop PC and the panels on a separate laptop, would I need 2 licenses? What about 1 PC + iPad combo?
Only need a license on a computer running Air Manager not the computer running only the Sim with the Air Manager plug-in. Same for the iPad version…. No license for the PC with the Sim.if you want multiple computers running panels you need Air Manager for one and could use Air Player for the rest
@@rbarlow That's very clear...thank you!
I bought it anyway, but keep struggling with a problem: black X-plane screen when running Air Manager. I use two panels (on two tablets), an Arduino Mega as Cessna switchbox and two knobsters, one for the Garmin530 and the other one for all the instruments on the cockpit, devided on two tablets. I checked 'click-through' in the panels. But still, I keep getting black screens in X-plane sometimes. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
First time I’ve ever heard of this problem, so I think you must be doing something wrong. Not sure I have the whole picture though the way you’re describing it when you say tablets, do you mean iPad, android, or Windows tablet? You say black screens in X-Plane do you mean that X-Plane has it's screen go black ?
Hey Russ if I use a second Pc to run just airmanager air there any special settings I should know about ?? Between the 2 Pc. I run Xplane 11.
actually if both the simulator and the panel computers are on the same local area network the panel computer should automatically connect to the simulator computer. You can also set the IP address of the sim manually too but is usually not necessary. If you were running the sim on more than one computer then the manually set up may be necessary. Otherwise it requires no special settings.
What is the benefit of using the Ipad or Android app vs using PC version only and popping out the panels to the tablet?
Popping out panels to tablet is a FPS hit and the tablet AirManager connects direct to the sim via your LAM so no sim performance loss.
Your videos are great. Your praise of Air Manager is well deserved. I've been using it on a second (touch) screen for a couple years and it makes the whole sim work well. But now suddenly an update I think has killed Air Manager. It doesn't accept my password, account or anything. I've tried twice to buy a new version of Air Manager, but even that doesn't work. Ralph at Siminnovations has been trying to help, but nothing works. It is very hard to fly Xplane without the instruments on a second monitor. Do you have any suggestions for someone who could help me get back in the sky?
Russ this is Dennis. I love your videos. Do you have time to personally chat with me about three monitor configuration in XPlane
Thanks to your Evangelism Russ, Air Manager has enhanced my sim experience massively. One mini major issue is that I can't seem to get multiple touch screens working SIMULTANEOUSLY on Windows 11. If anyone has cracked this then please let me know
I have 3 55" monitors and 1 touch screen monitor and can't get the touch screen to work correctly. I'm glad to see someone has had nice results.
Hey Russ....I have a few questions I wanted to ask with regards to air manager....what is the best way to contact you?
You can reach me at an email barlow320 which is at a domain of gmail which is a dot com
I'm new to this. I'm still confused as to why I would want this over the built-in cockpit view of MSFS?
1- it provides an independent instrument panel regardless of the view displayed in MSFS
2- you can display a fuller outside view without having to share the instruments with the outside view
3- on landing you can glance down at the panel without having to pan the view up and down
4- on a touchscreen you can make more realistic panel inputs without using the mouse or keyboard. Knobster can make it even more realistic.
5- if yo have a real airplane you can modify the panel to exactly replicate that airplane
6- if you expand your cockpit to add some physical controls it is way using Air Manager
7- Air Manager Panels can run on a separate computer via your local network allowing you to maximize performance on your sim computer
If you need more I can probably think of a few more.. let me know
Take a look at Simstrumentation.com for examples of great MSFS Air Manager sim setups
@@rbarlow well, you certainly make a great case for this. So I'm thinking. I have two laptops in addition to my desktop. I'm wondering if I can network two laptops along with my desktop. I'm thinking something like putting the primary six flight instruments along with the engine gauges on one laptop, and the GPS and radio stack on the other laptop. Is something like that possible? Would there be any kind of network lag or stuttering with all of this? And, how do you go about networking all of this together? Is that built into the air manager software, or do I need yet additional software for that?
5:52 Air Manager for iPad !
How did you get the GTN 750 on there
The GTN750 for XP11 is from RealityXP and it’s just incorporated into the Air mManager panel. There are also GTN 750s available for MSFS too that can be used on that sim. These are not part of Air Manager.
@@rbarlow ok thank you. I was going to buy a real sim gear 750 instead of air manager since I didn’t know if it was incorporated.
Do you just pop it out in MSFS and drag it down. I have the PMS50 version.
Very nice, but I find it too expensive. It costs more than X-Plane 11 itself. Maybe I'll buy it in future, but not now.
Basically Helios for the civ sim, though Helios is much more open :(
More open ? Open source?
@@rbarlow Yeah Helios is open source which makes it a lot easier for other DIYers to build up on it. It isn't as slick as this commercial product, but I do like the openes of it. That said, Helios is designed for DCS and interchange with that sim, so it is of no use in MSFS :)
@@JohnVanderbeck while the actual app Air Manager is not open source it is extremely flexible to do almost anything in panel and instrument development and there are over 1000 free community shared instruments that can be modified or used as a reference. Lua is the scripting language and using the API you can create almost anything. I think they had a desire to support DCS a while back but it didn’t provide easy external sim access like P3D, MSFS and XP. Has that changed?
I've been battling a problem and still can't get Air Manager to "find" my X=plane11 simulator. I can't seem to find what is blocking Air Manager from my flight sim. I want to buy a touch screen monitor and knobster, but if I can't connect the two, it may be a waste of money.
Frustrated
I feel your frustration. Don’t give up. I just had a problem with a connection and it turned out that the 2015 C++ Runtime Distributable that Air Manager uses was corrupted. I had to go to windows settings Apps and Features and select Uninstall for both 64 bit and x86(32 bit) . It offers a Repair button and that fixed things. I doubt that is your problem but my point is that there is probably a simple fix and we’ll find it. Have you looked at this page that covers all the common connection issues and fixes siminnovations.com/wiki/index.php?title=Connection_problems
Take a look and try these solutions and if you are still stumped contact me at my gmail account my user name is barlow320 . It is a dot com address
@@rbarlow Hi Russ, I, too, am retired from the airlines and assume that you also flew the Airbus. I have tried to disable the firewall in my windows10 but the problem still didn't go away. There was one second when the "searching for flight simulator" went to connected but quickly went back to the original problem. But I did get a new pop up window that said something is blocking Air Manager. I printed out the entire Air Manager manual and tried their procedures. Still haven't solved the problem. Maybe there is a hidden security feature I can't seem to find.
Okay Russ, I got the air manager to connect, BUT, now after I choose an instrument panel and fly X-plane the instruments don't work. I also connected the Wimaxit touch monitor and the touch feature doesn't work correctly. It seems my "calibrate" function of my windows says my touch monitor feature is not available. The monitor works fine, just when I touch the screen only my main monitor reacts and this is where the calibrate function should fix it. And it doesn't. Yes, after 3 days of learning and trying ways to fix this I'm still not up to speed and it is time to quit for a while unless you have any ideas.
@@stricklandgarageaviation2864 first let’s get the touch monitor working. The Wimaxit unit should have two usb-c ports , a mini -usb and HDMI. Use the HDMI for the video connection. I think one usb-c is marked power and you need to use the included adapter to power the monitor through that port. DONOT power that from your computer or usb hub. Connect the other usb-c to your usb bus (computer or hub) as this will communicate the touch inputs to your computer. The calibration will not work if it doesn’t sense the usb signal from the touch grid. The monitor will work as a monitor powered by the usb bus but the power is not sufficient to power the touch grid. Once it senses the touch the calibrate will offer the function to do that.
@@rbarlow Hi Russ, my connections: HDMI to HDMI ---monitor to video card
USB c to USB c--monitor to mother board
USB c (power)-- to wall plug
When I go to configure the Wimaxit monitor still shows "no pen or touch inputs available for this display."
Again, when I touch the Wimaxit monitor screen the main screen responds, not the Wimaxit monitor. I can drag items from the main screen to the WM with the mouse.
So, I gather it is not sending the touch grid. Any other ideas? Thanks..
Crashing a lot with the latest MSFS.
So is my VR headset. MSFS is a constant battle.
Hey Russ! You showcase my sim at 8:35. You'd be proud of the progress I've made!
czcams.com/video/t56gU-KKBYk/video.html
You were my inspiration to upgrade from 3 monitors to the 5 monitor touch panel setup. I can never go back! Thanks so much!
Xbox?
Can I use my Amazon Fire tablet connected with my Windows 11 PC ?
As long as there is software to allow your Fire to emulate a Windows touch monitor