Air Manager 4 - Getting started

A brief overview of how to add and configure instrument panels.
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[@westsguitar4046]

Thank you so very much for your demonstrations. This made it easy to get started up and keep my scan current for real time in the cockpit.

[@simcptmike]

I'm brand new to air manager. this is a very exciting video for me! thank you

[@ottopilot6536]

I've been running the Air Manager 4 beta with MSFS for the last couple of months and it's been great. Just bought the full release version when it was released. I absolutely love it. There's no better way to control a plane without a mouse and keyboard. Can't wait for more instruments and panels to be MSFS compatible.

[@091263david]

how did you install the plugin. i'm having issues where the Plugin installer is putting the bridge files in C: but my fs2020 installation is on a separate drive (due to it being so big). help would be greatly appreciated.

[@ottopilot6536]

@@091263david The Air Manager plugin installs itself as a Windows service. It doesn't need to be in the same location as MSFS. Its location doesn't matter at all. It could be on any drive connected to your system. As long as Windows sees it, it will load it up at boot time. Now that said, I've got an issue with the plugin. It will work, but if I shut down the sim and reload it, it no longer starts up. I either have to manually go and restart the service, or take the easier and quicker route of just doing a quick reinstall of the plugin from an icon I keep on my desktop. It takes less than 30 seconds and can be run at any time with the sim running or not.

[@ralphrietveld]

There's gonna be a new plugin soon. This one was just a temporary one, due to limitations of FS2020. But they have made some updates so now we can make a better one.

[@ottopilot6536]

@@ralphrietveld Good to hear. This one works well, as long as you know how to work around it when it stops working. Nonetheless, a proper working version would be a nice improvement. Otherwise, AM4 works a treat with MSFS. I wouldn't even dream of flying without it now.

[@pilotkid2011]

Upvoted just for the username and profile pic!

[@patrick4228]

I'm running the new Air Manager and Air Player 4.0 for about a week and they work great! Looking forward to test the Arduino connection ('without script') in a few days.

[@ralphrietveld]

We're gonna release a video soon that describes how to do this.

[@patrick4228]

@@ralphrietveld Looking forward, thank your Ralph. Bedankt Ralph.

[@beescan22]

Excellent as always Captain Russ.

[@shauncb]

Any word of when the G1000 will actually work without having to use mobi?

[@bandjoey3852]

I have Air Manager 3.7.1 and didn't see anything about the 4 upgrade. How can I upgrade? thanks.

[@Jv_R6]

Hello I have a question. My air manager is not connecting to Xplane 12. How do I fix this?

[@chopperskier]

I got this far, but I still can't use the dials for scrolling... it just acts like a click button most of the time, occasionally letting me scroll the dial, but if I can scroll a dial, the lag is HORRIFIC (like a solid 5 second delay). I'm on a high powered machine (7800X3D, 7900XTX, 64 GB 5600mhz RAM..) Any ideas what is causing this? XP12. Have not tried it in MSFS yet.

[@simpitacademy]

I used the right Alt key and moved MFDs to second monitor. they work in 2D mode but freeze up in VR. Will Air Manager make these displays on second monitor work in VR?

[@braneden]

My airmanager says its deactivated along with my two airplayer subscriptions. I put in the password for my airmanager and said activation failed. I attempted to make a ticket without luck. Is there a reason everything is not working. Worked fine this morning...

[@Hyestar]

Will the FAA allow this kind of panel software in an AATD?

[@redbox360]

just purchase for my c172 and now pa-44. with knobster, it is very good combo. i hope we will have custom panel for pa-44 soon.

[@kingiscmn]

I just purchased air manager app. Clicked on the Cessna 172 and now I can’t stop it from loading that panel. Also, don’t know how to connect the iPad to the X-Plane computer

[@ralphrietveld]

Please read the instructions on the wiki.

[@Flyawayin2023]

Thank you for you great instruction videos. I started today on trying to put the two G1000 panels for the C-172 (FS 2020). I went through the processes and was able to get the blank panel up as default. When I went to instruments I was unable to locate the G1000 instruments. All that is shown on the Air Management page is 6 instruments for the Beechcraft B58. Any advice? Thank you.

[@EmmanuelGracianTV]

Hi guys! Does ir works with MS Flight Simulator 2020? Thanks!

[@pilotenrr]

Hello, I have a question, if you have the desktop version of Air Manager, is the Android version free or do you have to buy it separately?

[@TwistedPineMT]

I can’t get air manager to connect to Microsoft flight simulator 2020. In the bottom right corner it says “searching for flight simulator” and they are on the same computer. Any tips would be great!

[@ralphrietveld]

Please see our wiki: siminnovations.com/wiki/index.php?title=Connection_problems

[@GustavoMChacon]

My license 3.7 is not working anymore, I uninstalled it and retry but stays on loading page only. I’ve tried to do what FAQs says but it doesn’t work. Ralph from Simmionic didn’t help either, I did what he asked me to do and still doesn’t work than I emailed him again and he asked to read FAQs. I still have a License which doesn’t work.

[@rajeevgupta2466]

This same guy doesn’t understand that i am saying clear and loud that after following all steps in their wiki the software doesn’t even load. I bought air manager 4 desktop by paying 65 euros. Money gone in the Air

[@nigelmorris4769]

I have air manager 4.1 on android. Worked fine but since Nov 22 the gages and panels fail to show on screen...

[@ralphrietveld]

Please use our support ticket system for technical questions.

[@stricklandgarageaviation2864]

You might add the steps to get these panels onto X-plane. I am having a problem getting a newly designed panel onto an aircraft in X-plane. Do you have to work air manager before you start X=plane? Sometimes the panel doesn't show up on my smaller 4th monitor.

[@nipinaboo7335]

Hi all, i am using C172 Skyhawk (G1000) on MSFS and I created the instrument panel with Garmin G1000 overlay and also tried Garmin G1000 NXi Overlay on the Air Manager, along with Cessna 172 Flaps Lever. When putting it on live, along with MSFS running, the input I made on G1000 overlay on the Air Manager instrument panel, is not making any changes on MSFS PFD, flaps input on the Air manager overlay is also having the same effect, but when I tried flaps in the MSFS, it is making changes on the Flaps Lever on the Air Manager instrument panel I made. I tried the resolutions given on the website, the log file seems good and I even turned off the firewall. I have one system and two monitors connected, so they are in the same network. please help

[@ralphrietveld]

Please use our support ticket system or forums for questions.

[@Dandom15]

Do I have to activate Air Manager to be able to download the free panels, such as the Cessna 172?

[@ralphrietveld]

Yes.

[@J-L_Pilot]

Do you know if air manager is compatible with x-plane 12? Does not work on mine.

[@ralphrietveld]

Yes it is compatible. But you probably did not install the plugin for X-Plane 12. You can either do this manually with the current plugin installer by selecting manual installation, or wait for the updated plugin installer which will be available soon.

[@kimberlywentworth9160]

You missed the getting started. How do you install it as a plug in. This was the easy part.

[@thraxas79]

Hmm what are the limitations of the Demo? At the moment I would just need to display some Gauges (Sixpack), why isn‘t there a light version or a demo for Android … I‘m not sure if my old Tablet would work so I would like to try before I buy :/

[@ralphrietveld]

There is no demo for the tablet versions, but there is for the desktop version.

[@braneden]

Do you need a separate licence for client computers?

[@ralphrietveld]

If you want to run instruments there yes, but you can run Air Manager on any computer in the network.

[@555Winglet]

Possible with flybywire A320 in MSFS 2020 too ???

[@ralphrietveld]

I believe that we only have an overhead panel.

[@vascomiguel3384]

Is it possible to run Air Manager on a separate monitor, with the same pc?

[@ralphrietveld]

On any and as many monitors as you like.

[@growinsane9123]

In MSFS 2020 I wanted a way to view panels easily whilst a guest uses VR. This is so I can provide advice based on the panels without being in VR with them. I found the ALT GR click function to show panels but the panels don't update properly when VR is active. Will Air Manager 4 help me in this regard to setup panels a person can see outside of VR whilst a 2nd user is in VR or is Air Manager 4 a bit overkill for this simple ambition. Thanks,

[@ralphrietveld]

That sounds like a MSFS limitation? You can also use analog instruments, but I understand that you want glass.

[@growinsane9123]

@@ralphrietveld Hi, yes I think it is a msfs limitation, it must view VR as being too much overhead to then go rendering the displays elsewhere on 2nd screens whilst vr is running. Perhaps it just isn't a scenario that many people have enquired about, afterall if you are playing alone and in VR you are not going to be caring much about panels or displays. I am effectively trying to create a '2 player' situation where both can see. I have read about another tool that lets you share flightdeck controls but that requires a 2nd computer configured in the same way so they can communicate with each other and it seemed a bit overkill, I only wanted to be able to see main instrumentation even if it were not rendered in a realistic or faithful way, altitude, heading, speed, rate of climb/descent etc. If you work with somebody in VR at the moment, you have to ask them to look at the speed dials so as an observer you can also see 🤣

[@ramnik.khanna]

@Sim Innovations, I want to try Air Manager before buying it. I've logged into the account that I've created, but the Activation screen is frozen on the "Select Active Licenses" screen. Moreover, the Cessna 172 Panel is not free but has only a "Buy" option showing in front of it, which is different from what's being shown in your video. Is it Payware now? Which ar the free panels available for the Air Manager Demo version; I can't find any?

[@ralphrietveld]

Without a license you can only run the demo panel, nothing else.

[@lancesmith4102]

Is Air Manager still work on Windows 7? Have an old PC that I would like to use for the instrument clusters as it has a decent graphic card ( for its age) and i already have 3 touch tablets configured as monitors on that PC that I want to use for the Air Manager.. I have downloaded and tried to install Air Manager on this PC , but when i start it I am never prompted for the language selection, and it never starts. PC on same LAN as FS , CPU AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core , Graphic Radeon x1950 , I can install and run on FS PC , but with 6 monitors its too taxing on the GPU

[@ralphrietveld]

No, the minimum OS is Windows 8, but rather Windows 10 or 11.

[@lancesmith4102]

@@ralphrietveld thank you for confirming, there are lots of threads stating different supported versions, working on upgrading systen to win10 64 bit to get this project moving forward again .. cheers

[@ralphrietveld]

@@lancesmith4102 it used to be Windows 7. But the latest VS redistributables aren't working on Windows 7.

[@WarrenPostma]

Why is the iPad version so limited and toy-like when the Windows version seems to have a lot of obvious simple things that are not in the ipad version. For example, why can’t I just see all parameters that are in the XPlane system, and just see one of them as a dial, or a number, with a scale of my choice? I am trying to learn to fly helicopters on XPlane and the iPad version is nearly useless for this. I just wanted to be able to pick the core engine parameters for my current helicopters, and map them to dials on a screen, even if they are super basic lines-on-circles.

[@ralphrietveld]

Because that's not the purpose of the iPad app. It is made to quickly put a panel together and fly. Also, a lot of the desktop functionality would make no sense on the iPad. You would have to have a code editor on the iPad for example. And you wouldn't be able to modify the resources (images and such) because Apple does not let you.

[@WarrenPostma]

@@ralphrietveld A simple generic widget that has a fixed text output format, and all you can do is select which parameter and how big a font to display it, would let users solve the problem of "there's no gauge for X, and no way to add it". If that could also be shown in a linear or circular form as a 0-100% of some user-entered range, NO CODING would be necessary on the Ipad. It's even funny that on the desktop app, you have to code, to just add a torque number, or an APU parameter, that there is no gauge for in the library.

[@fred_focus_mk1.5]

esse programa precisa de internet pra funcionar? vou usar num computador que não terá internet

[@ralphrietveld]

Yes, for activation and downloading instruments. After that it doesn't need internet.

[@fred_focus_mk1.5]

@@ralphrietveld muito obrigado, já estou usando 😉

[@rubenalonso148]

works for msfs 2020

[@royalfolkspark]

Still waiting for the G1000........???????

[@ralphrietveld]

We have no plans for a G1000.

[@ralphrietveld]

Be my guest :)

[@MekStark]

it's a real shame payware panels are unavailable on mobile, guess touch resolution might be too small on Android edit: payware meaning the premium ones with radio stack

[@ralphrietveld]

That's indeed an issue. Although it might work for some panels, like the EFD1000 or the G5. Maybe some day...

[@mainframecn]

I can see the value of this product, however the price is outrageous. 65 euros (ex vat) for a single computer license? And you have to pay another 30 for the player to run screens across different computers. I can not image that this has the same value as the actual flight simulator itself. (prise wise or effort)

[@ralphrietveld]

Air Player is not required.

[@abubakarabdullahi8232]

Airpay-money

[@zdcvingz]

damn shame you made it so expensive..no need to be charging your fellow sim gamers 30 dollars for an app...never used to be this way

[@KGSOsimpilot]

Kinda ridiculous this program cost almost $80 USD.

[@ralphrietveld]

Then start your own (cheaper) version :-)

[@WarrenPostma]

@@ralphrietveld Anybody who has done any dev work knows there's probably 10K -200K hours required to build something equivalent to the current Air Manager. $80 for the PC version and $30 for the iPad version is a steal.

[@WarrenPostma]

@@bearinch i am not the person who wrote this. I am just a dude who understands how long software takes to write because its my job to write code.

[@maxgreen8520]

65$ no thanks

[@oscacuel]

Hello, I have a problem. i have two licenses, one version 3 and the other one version 4. im having troubles, when the pcs are working at the same time... the pc with version 3 have control, the air manager version 4 shows what the PC simulator is doing with version 3.

[@ralphrietveld]

Please send in a support ticket.