Came to this late but this is exactly what I needed - the X-Plane forums didn't seem to know how to do this so I thank you for taking the time to show us.
Fabulous video Russ! I have many many many years experience with configuring FSX/p3d, and I am a very advanced user, however I am brand new to xplane. I am usually not one who is big on learning a new platform, but I tried the demo for xplane 11 and I am very impressed from what I have seen so far, so I may be making the switch very soon. Your video was extremely helpful, and useful for starting me out in the right direction. Thanks so much! If I do make the switch, I am not sure what I am going to do about the 100s of dollars I spent on 3rd party addons for p3d, but oh well, that is a different story.
Russ, How do you get a outside view that looks like you would actually see when flying? I notice that all the videos (yours and others) when you bank the plane left or right all the monitors are coordinated so that you get one continuous view. I am running 3 monitors and when I bank both left and right monitors move up or down depending on left or right bank. The center monitor remains level. I hope this makes sense in that it is a hard scenario to to explain. Any thoughts are appreciated.
Sounds like you don’t have the lateral FOV angle and the physical angle of the monitors matched. What phy,so-called angle are the monitors (left and right) angled back from flat with the center monitor.
Hi Russ! I´ve been trying setup the Xplane11 using 2 pcs (one of them will be the visual and the other one the cockpit), but I didn´t get sucess yet. Do you have a kind of "step by step" to help me at these process? Guilherme
Hi Russ. Thank you for the tutorial. I have been trying to get External View to work on a networked PC while flying a 3rd party plane. While the plane's location, whether on the ground or flying, is correct on the ex-view PC, very few, or none, of the plane's systems are actually on. The instrument screens are blank, switch positions do not match the master PC's and so on. Is that just the way it's going to be with 3rd party planes? In case it's the Flight Factor Boeing 757. Thanks, Paul
Do you have the addon airplane installed on both airplanes( usually need license for each airplanes) if you want to show cockpit on both. Even then add on airplanes may not share all datarefs across the network. For example in stock aircraft if you display the Garmin G530 on both computers, the screen on the external visual computer does not respond in display the same screen. Best to make cockpit PC the master. External visual pc won’t need the addon installed if you show scenery only.
@@rbarlow Thank you for your response. I do have the add-on installed on both PCs. I suspected it had to do with the datarefs. I wanted to use this feature to help someone get up to speed on this plane, but I would need to observe the start-up and so on. I solved the problem by setting up SmartCopilot on both PCs. It just required another license of that product. Fortunately, an SC profile exists for this plane. Thanks again, Paul
Do you have a copy of X-Plane 11 running on both computers? They must both be on the same LAN either Wi-Fi or wired. The computers must have the name or IP address of the other in the network settings in XP11 one as master and one as external visual
Good video Russ. Have you tried doing this with a single computer where it allows for multiple display configurations within X-Plane? (another cool new feature I'm looking forward to) Unfortunately when I select a "2D panel" for 1 display and "Full Sim" for the other, the 2D doesn't appear. I'm curious if you've had any luck with this. Normally, I use Airmanager for this purpose (which is working fine), but it would be nice to play with all the new panels in XP11 as well :-).
Russ, very good video! I am struggling with a strange problem. Once I establish a link between master and slave computers the aircraft on slave external views machine raises above the ground when parked and stays relatively higher in flight compared to the master view. All other coordinates and attitudes remain normal. Did you have this problem? If yes, how did you fix it? Will appreciate your comment.
It is an issue with how the views are set up in the aircraft. I had an issue like that with an airplane and had to use planemaker to align the views. I can’t remember the details but I know I found the solution by a google search.
If you are only going to display instrument panels including the G5 you do not need a copy of XP on that panel computer. Your visual computer will run XP with the Air Manager plugin installed. The panel computer will communicate with XP through your home network Ethernet or Wifi. You can run a couple monitors of Air Mgr panels on a fairly old computer ( i3 and GTX770 for example) 30 fps is plenty food for the panel. The problem arises if you want to display XP pop out windows. They obviously can only be positioned on monitors attached to the computer running the Master copy of XP. The visual computer doesn’t update these instruments as the idea is for this computer to display e get all visual scenery. So in this case the panel computer running Air Manager would also run.the master XP and the pop out windows.I think Ie plan this in my Vulkan Stress Test Video recently.
Hey Russ, thanks for the informative upload, I have one single powerful machine I had built for my visuals to run x3 projectors but also now have two touch screens inside the cockpit I want to use for avionics etc. I've spent a fortune already and was wondering how powerful the computer should be for the two touch screens running instruments either offset correctly for multiple aircraft in 3D cockpit as most seem to fit well.. or Flight1 software. Just wanted advice before I go out and buy another computer for this final touch. Thank you in advance and keep up the great vids they have been super helpful 👍
James Humphries I can't speak to flight1 but the upcoming version of Air Manager 3.0 I have been beta testing runs on very low performance computers. I have a couple recent videos posted that demo that. I currently run three touchscreen monitors using Air Manager 2.1.3 on a gtx770 video card but it's a bit of overkill .
When I run x-Plane on my 2nd PC I get the message it will stop running on another PC. Then something happens so now when I have both pc running it simply controls the other one. I can't get it to work. If someone can please spare a few minutes and contact me. I would really appreciate it. Also, I am trying to run it on 2 PC. 1 PC = just scenery and 2nd PC for the panel. Do I need to buy a 2 x-plane 11 license?
gary self yes you need a copy on each computer running X-Plane. You can connect a as a many monitors (and place distinct views on them) as your graphics card can support using a single copy of XP but to network you need a license for each computer. Of course you can display a instrument panel with Air Manager on a networked computer and that is an option if a panel is all you want to display with a second computer.
@@rbarlow i want 3 monitor setup to run the main view i have a 1080 graphics card for that and i want to run the panels from air manager on another computer so i need 2 copys of xplane installed on both pc and 2 copys of air manager so i have to buy them twice is that correct and thankyou for the reply appreciate it
gary self no you need XP11 on the main computer which can create three separate views(one per monitor ) and a second less powerful computer to run one copy of a Air Manager networked with the main computer. You are only limited by the number of graphics ports and power of the cpu and gpu on your main computer running game XP11
gary self if you only want an Air Manager Panel on the second computer you Do NOT need a second copy of XP11. Air Manage communicates with XP directly over your network
nice vdo, see that you are not the computerwizz, but the way you have it setup explains well how to do xplane on multi screen. would you suggest faster PC for the master or faster for the external display. ?? 6core with 980ti for master and 4 core 1080 for external or visa versa ? external would be 1920x1080 internal 3 screens full hd for instruments, panel and overhead fyi to rename a computer a lot easier , right click my computer,(this pc), properties advanced, rename for IP address, it will only change once you either have changed your Network card , or you have setup your computer/network badly (poorly) DHCP has something called a refresh half life time, normal leases are about 30 days in a moderate network size I normally configure home networks for friends on a class c ( 254 adresses ) with a 30 day lease. if you have your own DHCP server, just convert the lease to a reservation and your ip will never change again un less you change your MAC/NIC and then you can still convert to the same ip again... tnx again for the post
True. I am a retired pilot ( GA, Military and 35 years in the Airlines) so you are correct I am not a gaming wiz. I learned programming using Fortran during Aeronautical Engineering while in college ( grad 1974). The IBM 370 mainframe we used filled a large room and had 1 Mb of RAM. Thanks for your feedback.
Came to this late but this is exactly what I needed - the X-Plane forums didn't seem to know how to do this so I thank you for taking the time to show us.
Perfect answer to my question. I had set it to Independent view by mistake. Russ to the rescue !!
Fabulous video Russ! I have many many many years experience with configuring FSX/p3d, and I am a very advanced user, however I am brand new to xplane. I am usually not one who is big on learning a new platform, but I tried the demo for xplane 11 and I am very impressed from what I have seen so far, so I may be making the switch very soon. Your video was extremely helpful, and useful for starting me out in the right direction. Thanks so much! If I do make the switch, I am not sure what I am going to do about the 100s of dollars I spent on 3rd party addons for p3d, but oh well, that is a different story.
Russ, How do you get a outside view that looks like you would actually see when flying? I notice that all the videos (yours and others) when you bank the plane left or right all the monitors are coordinated so that you get one continuous view. I am running 3 monitors and when I bank both left and right monitors move up or down depending on left or right bank. The center monitor remains level. I hope this makes sense in that it is a hard scenario to to explain. Any thoughts are appreciated.
Sounds like you don’t have the lateral FOV angle and the physical angle of the monitors matched. What phy,so-called angle are the monitors (left and right) angled back from flat with the center monitor.
Hi Russ!
I´ve been trying setup the Xplane11 using 2 pcs (one of them will be the visual and the other one the cockpit), but I didn´t get sucess yet. Do you have a kind of "step by step" to help me at these process?
Guilherme
Hi Russ. Thank you for the tutorial. I have been trying to get External View to work on a networked PC while flying a 3rd party plane. While the plane's location, whether on the ground or flying, is correct on the ex-view PC, very few, or none, of the plane's systems are actually on. The instrument screens are blank, switch positions do not match the master PC's and so on. Is that just the way it's going to be with 3rd party planes? In case it's the Flight Factor Boeing 757.
Thanks,
Paul
Do you have the addon airplane installed on both airplanes( usually need license for each airplanes) if you want to show cockpit on both. Even then add on airplanes may not share all datarefs across the network. For example in stock aircraft if you display the Garmin G530 on both computers, the screen on the external visual computer does not respond in display the same screen.
Best to make cockpit PC the master. External visual pc won’t need the addon installed if you show scenery only.
@@rbarlow Thank you for your response. I do have the add-on installed on both PCs. I suspected it had to do with the datarefs. I wanted to use this feature to help someone get up to speed on this plane, but I would need to observe the start-up and so on. I solved the problem by setting up SmartCopilot on both PCs. It just required another license of that product. Fortunately, an SC profile exists for this plane.
Thanks again,
Paul
I am trying to set this up and my visual computer does not show me the visual simulation. showing no incoming data
Do you have a copy of X-Plane 11 running on both computers? They must both be on the same LAN either Wi-Fi or wired. The computers must have the name or IP address of the other in the network settings in XP11 one as master and one as external visual
Good video Russ. Have you tried doing this with a single computer where it allows for multiple display configurations within X-Plane? (another cool new feature I'm looking forward to) Unfortunately when I select a "2D panel" for 1 display and "Full Sim" for the other, the 2D doesn't appear. I'm curious if you've had any luck with this. Normally, I use Airmanager for this purpose (which is working fine), but it would be nice to play with all the new panels in XP11 as well :-).
I have only been able to do it with 3D cockpit and not 2D Panel. I agree Air Manager is better for me on my touch screen monitors.
Russ, very good video! I am struggling with a strange problem. Once I establish a link between master and slave computers the aircraft on slave external views machine raises above the ground when parked and stays relatively higher in flight compared to the master view. All other coordinates and attitudes remain normal. Did you have this problem? If yes, how did you fix it? Will appreciate your comment.
It is an issue with how the views are set up in the aircraft. I had an issue like that with an airplane and had to use planemaker to align the views. I can’t remember the details but I know I found the solution by a google search.
Does it work for flightsim world as well ?
9:09 Don't see the propelor ?
Russ I want to run a less powerfully pc for just air manager .should I make that the master or the secondary Thanks for any help
If you are only going to display instrument panels including the G5 you do not need a copy of XP on that panel computer. Your visual computer will run XP with the Air Manager plugin installed. The panel computer will communicate with XP through your home network Ethernet or Wifi. You can run a couple monitors of Air Mgr panels on a fairly old computer ( i3 and GTX770 for example) 30 fps is plenty food for the panel. The problem arises if you want to display XP pop out windows. They obviously can only be positioned on monitors attached to the computer running the Master copy of XP. The visual computer doesn’t update these instruments as the idea is for this computer to display e get all visual scenery. So in this case the panel computer running Air Manager would also run.the master XP and the pop out windows.I think Ie plan this in my Vulkan Stress Test Video recently.
Hey Russ, thanks for the informative upload, I have one single powerful machine I had built for my visuals to run x3 projectors but also now have two touch screens inside the cockpit I want to use for avionics etc. I've spent a fortune already and was wondering how powerful the computer should be for the two touch screens running instruments either offset correctly for multiple aircraft in 3D cockpit as most seem to fit well.. or Flight1 software.
Just wanted advice before I go out and buy another computer for this final touch. Thank you in advance and keep up the great vids they have been super helpful 👍
James Humphries I can't speak to flight1 but the upcoming version of Air Manager 3.0 I have been beta testing runs on very low performance computers. I have a couple recent videos posted that demo that. I currently run three touchscreen monitors using Air Manager 2.1.3 on a gtx770 video card but it's a bit of overkill .
Thanks again Russ very useful
When I run x-Plane on my 2nd PC I get the message it will stop running on another PC. Then something happens so now when I have both pc running it simply controls the other one. I can't get it to work. If someone can please spare a few minutes and contact me. I would really appreciate it. Also, I am trying to run it on 2 PC. 1 PC = just scenery and 2nd PC for the panel. Do I need to buy a 2 x-plane 11 license?
Did u need to buy xplane 11 twice for both computers
gary self yes you need a copy on each computer running X-Plane. You can connect a as a many monitors (and place distinct views on them) as your graphics card can support using a single copy of XP but to network you need a license for each computer. Of course you can display a instrument panel with Air Manager on a networked computer and that is an option if a panel is all you want to display with a second computer.
@@rbarlow i want 3 monitor setup to run the main view i have a 1080 graphics card for that and i want to run the panels from air manager on another computer so i need 2 copys of xplane installed on both pc and 2 copys of air manager so i have to buy them twice is that correct and thankyou for the reply appreciate it
gary self no you need XP11 on the main computer which can create three separate views(one per monitor ) and a second less powerful computer to run one copy of a Air Manager networked with the main computer. You are only limited by the number of graphics ports and power of the cpu and gpu on your main computer running game XP11
@@rbarlow so all i have to do is just install xplane 11 on both machines and air manager on one machine for it to work over a network
gary self if you only want an Air Manager Panel on the second computer you Do NOT need a second copy of XP11. Air Manage communicates with XP directly over your network
Thanks Russ
nice vdo, see that you are not the computerwizz, but the way you have it setup explains well how to do xplane on multi screen.
would you suggest faster PC for the master or faster for the external display. ??
6core with 980ti for master and 4 core 1080 for external or visa versa ?
external would be 1920x1080
internal 3 screens full hd for instruments, panel and overhead
fyi
to rename a computer a lot easier , right click my computer,(this pc), properties advanced, rename
for IP address, it will only change once you either have changed your Network card , or you have setup your computer/network badly (poorly)
DHCP has something called a refresh half life time,
normal leases are about 30 days in a moderate network size
I normally configure home networks for friends on a class c ( 254 adresses ) with a 30 day lease. if you have your own DHCP server, just convert the lease to a reservation and your ip will never change again un less you change your MAC/NIC and then you can still convert to the same ip again...
tnx again for the post
True. I am a retired pilot ( GA, Military and 35 years in the Airlines) so you are correct I am not a gaming wiz. I learned programming using Fortran during Aeronautical Engineering while in college ( grad 1974). The IBM 370 mainframe we used filled a large room and had 1 Mb of RAM. Thanks for your feedback.
Super VID...:)