Hi, Doug.
As you're a real pilot, I think that you'll find flight instruments on a
separate fixed monitor is the best way to fly.
I've been using a smaller program called
G.A. Panels for several years, and although I like it, it's been acting a little strange lately.
This past Christmas, I bought
Air Manager from Sim Inovations to replace it.
The
Air Manager instruments don't fit on my two 9" monitors very well. To make it look right I'll have to actually red the instructions.
Anyway.
What you'll find in using a monitor or tablet for your instruments, is that just like a real aircraft all of the instruments STAY right where they belong.
And that really is a big deal. In a flight sim, as you look around you have to find where the instruments are, and then try to zoom in to where you can read them.
Imagine doing that while flying an actual plane.
With the separate monitor, you KNOW where to look. MUCH better.
As time goes by my vision is getting worse. My instrument monitors are at a distance where reading them is easy. The flight monitors can be farther away and don't have to be as clear.
I'm sure that you can design instrument panels with
FS Panel Studio for each of your aircraft. I started doing that, but soon decided that most of the planes that I fly fit, slow & low, will fit a generic set of instruments.
You'll probably find that you too have made an instrument layout that you like a lot. If you like it, keep on using it. I won't tell anyone.
