One cockpit, several devices
When several devices make up one cockpit (an iPad for the panel, another for the navigator, an iPhone as a controller), what describes the cockpit is set once, and every device on the same Hub follows. Dim the lights on one and the others dim; load a flight plan on one and the others show it; check an item on the iPad’s checklist and it’s checked on the phone.
What each screen shows stays its own: its pages, its instruments, its maps and their fields.
What’s shared
Section titled “What’s shared”| Group | What |
|---|---|
| Panel lighting | day, night or auto, and the dimmers |
| Transponder | the VFR code, the ground mode |
| Units | distance, altitude, temperature, pressure |
| Instruments and alerts | realistic needles; the terrain, traffic, airspace and spoken alerts inhibited, or all alerts muted; the glass failures for training (attitude, air data, PFD, MFD) |
| Aircraft | the registration on the placard, and the profile chosen with Use as… |
| Navigators | the CDI scale, the minimums, synthetic vision, your own checklists, and the navigators’ setup (nearest runway, ILS, time, arrival alarm, VNAV messages, airspace alarms) |
| Flight plan | the route, its procedures and altitudes, the cruise altitude, the alternate, the ETD, and the leg flown |
| Checklists | the items checked, in the FlightBook and on the NEXT’s, the G1000’s and the GNS’s checklist pages |
The static and pitot failures stay on each device: they belong to each instrument.
On a device
Section titled “On a device”Every group is shared unless you turn it off: Settings → Connection → Shared with the cockpit has a switch for each one. Turned off, the device keeps its own setting and doesn’t change the others’. Turned on again, it takes the cockpit’s.
- Changed on two devices at once: each setting is merged on its own, so two people changing different things both keep theirs. The same setting: the last change to reach the Hub wins, and every device shows it.
- The checklists: two people checking different items both keep their checks, so you can work through a list together.
- Away from the Hub: a change made while the device wasn’t connected goes to the others once it’s back; the rest of the cockpit’s settings are taken.
- A device joining later takes the cockpit’s settings, flight plan and checks as it connects.
The flight plan
Section titled “The flight plan”Load a plan or edit it on any device (SimBrief, a stored plan, a procedure, an airway, a Direct-To) and the others show the same route, with its procedures and altitudes; as you fly, the active leg moves on all of them.
The device you edit the plan on sends it to the simulator, as before; the others don’t send it again. A device that reconnects doesn’t send its own older plan over the cockpit’s. A plan loaded in the simulator itself (the Headingstar panel, a .PLN) still reaches every device from the simulator.
The Hub’s Cockpit page
Section titled “The Hub’s Cockpit page”The Hub keeps what the devices share, and remembers it when it restarts. Its Cockpit page, in the left column, sets it for every device at once and shows what they share:
- Panel lighting: day, night or auto, and the five dimmers, for every device together.
- Realistic needles: off, light, normal or strong, the same on every iPad and iPhone.
- Transponder and units.
- Flight plan: the route and the leg flown, with Clear.
- Checklists: how far along each aircraft’s checklist is, with Reset for everyone.
- Devices: each iPad and iPhone connected, which groups it follows, and the last thing it changed.
The x275 boards keep their own brightness, set on their page in the Hub.