But currently you can find LCD of any sizes on the market.Ī 7" display is wider than the GPS screen, but it's cheap and does not prevent placing the side buttons above it, because the screen is recessed into the faceplate. On AliExpress a 7" LCD screen with a controller. I've made it all by hand spending about 3 hours and using semi-hard PVC (often used as a signboard by advertisers), a knife, file and sandpaper: My Baron 58 GPS Face plate. ![]() Options: In total, you will need 18 to 22 inputs, so you can use either 2 multiplexers or one multiplexer and a few additional direct inputs (or extended inputs on another, already used multiplexer along with sone other inputs). So, your GPS will have only a few wires - 4 address bus lines, 2 inputs and GND (+5v can be taken from the LCD screen board or from the common power supply in your cockpit panel). Using just 2 multiplexer boards with RealSimControl and a small LCD screen you can make your GPS that can be either a separate module or just a mask attached to your main panel (as example of this, see the photo of our Baron 58 panel below). Note: You can use it for GNS430 and any other pop-ups, just rename it accordingly).ĭIY GPS module with RealSimControl Interface If you don't want (or can't) to create this "blank" 1x1 png file, you can download it here (right click and save) file for GNS530. If you want your GPS bezel to be blank for all planes, put these 1x1 files into bitmaps folder of X-Plane (don't forget to move or rename the original Garmin_530_2d.png or Garmin_430_2d.png files before adding these !!): "X-Plane_folder/Resources/bitmaps/cockpit/radios/GPS FMS/" If this folder doesn't exist, create it: "./Your_plane/cockpit/radios/GPS FMS/" Garmin_430_2d.png ) and put it in the "GPS FMS/" folder, located inside of your aircraft root folder. In short, you just need to create a small graphics PNG file 1×1 pixel ( named Garmin_530_2d.png or X-Plane 11 allows you to remove all GNS430/530, FMS and G1000 bezels - you can read how to do this on X-Plane developers website. When you use an external "stand-alone" module such as do-it-yourself GNS430/530, or G1000 built into your panel, you don't need their window bezel to be visible on the external LCD screen. How to remove bezels from popup instrument windows in X-Plane 11 Below are the examples of moving GNS530/430 onto a small 7" LCD display and a 19" monitor: Then, open the GPS window in X-Plane 11, undock it and move this window to the second monitor. ![]() First, open your display driver configuration tool and place your second monitor in the desired position. You can use a secondary display connected to your X-Plane 11 computer and just move GNS530 onto it. Patience will help.How to display GPS screen on additional monitor GPS on external monitor in X-Plane 11 It’s a minor inconvenience at this point. Only thing I’m missing now is the refinement of the bezels and viewing angle and allowing the sim to remember which instrument panels I want in which dashboard monitors. The performance increase in this update helped a LOT as did them fixing the blurring lights on my side monitors. It IS possible to make this work pretty well. Side note, I have three displays going now using the Borderless Gaming app, plus I use a macro on my stream deck that allows me to quickly send cockpit gauge windows (Right Alt Click) to my two additional displays in the dashboard area of my cockpit. They know many of us have cockpits with multiple displays. Just because their focus for this release was xbox, doesn’t mean their focus for all of the future will be. If you watch the development update videos, multi-monitor support is high on their list (something like third) and according to the update, development has begun and is slated for 2021/2022. People are pretty cynical on this thread. ![]() Please give us cockpitbuilders our computing power for stuff we actually see. Please make the virtual cockpit available soon. In camera.cfg the following adjustment in “views” needs to be made:Įyepoint = 3,95, -0,85, 10,9… this means 9 feet higher and of course one needs to adopt to landing earlier. In order to get the clear virutal cockpit view another tweak is necessary and instead this should have been there from day one: Knowing this is because the useless (invisible) cockpit is calculated in the background does not improve my mindset. Flying in nice airports FPS stumbles around 25!!! Now I undock the windows and move them into my physical G1000 (why cannot this be saved as startup setting?) and my FPS drop down to 30 at max. I use the later one to have some buffer even I loose a lot of field of view. Without using my already minimized homecockpit (PFD and MFD as separate monitors with bezels and knobs from Virtual Fly) I get: SU5 improved the FPS for “standard users” but not for my scenario.
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