** Development roadmap information

I've personally officially migrate fully over to MSFS 2024 for my daily flying and no longer have MSFS 2020 installed on my PC for continuing development and bug fix for this version of POPM. If you encount major showstopping bug, please log it in my github repo for POPM (see Reporint Issue/Open Issue section below for my github link) and I'll try to fix it in code directly without the help of actually MSFS 2020 on my PC. Thank you for your understanding.

** Information for MSFS 2024 **

POPM for MSFS 2024 has been released here at flightsim.to. The version in this download is only compatible with MSFS 2020.

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Pop Out Panels in MSFS

MSFS Pop Out Panel Manager is an application for MSFS 2020 which helps pop out, save and position pop out panels to be used by utilities such as Sim Innovations Air Manager or to place pop out panels onto your screen or another monitor at predetermined locations automatically. In MSFS, by holding RIGHT ALT + LEFT CLICKING some instrumentation panels, these panels will pop out as floating windows that can be moved to a different screen location or different monitor. But this needs to be done every time you start a new flight. In MSFS since SU12, there is the capability to remember size and position of pop outs but this feature is sometimes unreliable and you still need to manually pop these panels out. MSFS Pop Out Panel Manager solves this problem by enabling automatic pop out of panels when flight starts and can be configured per aircraft. 

How to Pop Out

Starting with version 4.1, a new method for selecting pop up panel has been added for MSFS Pop Out Panel Manager. This method uses pre-defined fixed camera view (Pilot, Copilot, instrumentations) for each aircraft and it is much more accurate way to select panel source compare to previous method of using custom camera angle. All aircraft profile created with previous version of MSFS Pop Out Panel Manager are still 100% compatible with latest version of the application. You are welcome to try out this new panel selection method and update your existing aircraft profiles at your leisure.

Video showing how to create a new aircraft profile using the new panel selection method

Video showing how to update existing aircraft profile to use the new panel selection method

In addition, a new floating panel feature which allows you to show and hide pop out panel with customizable keyboard binding has also been added.

Video showing how to manage floating panel

Touch Enabled Panel

Currently, MSFS lacks touch capability for pop out panels which are being used on touch screen or on tablet. If you're using pop out panel such as GTN750, KingAir PFD/MFD, or other in game touch screen capable panel (panels that can be operated with a mouse), or built-in panels such as ATC, checklist, you can add touch capability to these panels.

Application Features

• Display resolution independent. Supports 1080p/1440p/4k display and ultrawide displays.
• Support multiple user defined aircraft profiles to save panel locations to be recalled later.
• Intuitive user interface to defined location of panels to be popped out.
• Added automatic game refocus capability when using pop out. (MSFS bug where flight control is disabled when mouse is on the pop out)
• Enable touch support for pop outs on touch capable display (direct connected monitor or on tablet using tool such as SpaceDesk).
• Auto Pop Out feature. The application will detect active aircraft and activate the corresponding profile when starting a new flight session.
• Cold Start feature. Instrumentation panels can be popped out even when they're not powered on (for G1000 / G1000 NXi planes only).
• Fine-grain control in positioning of panels down to pixel level.
• Panels can be configured to appear always on top, with title bar hidden, or stretch to full screen mode.
• Auto disable Track IR when pop out starts.
• Auto activate Active Pause when pop out starts.
• User-friendly features such as application always on top, auto start, minimized to tray with keyboard shortcuts.
• Auto update feature. Application can auto-update itself when new version becomes available.
• A simple HUD Bar with stop watch and sim rate functions for generic aircraft or PMDG 737 aircraft.
• A virtual NumPad feature for touch panel screen.
• Floating panel option to show/hide pop out panel as needed.

How to Install 

Just unzip the package to a folder of your choice on your computer and run "MSFSPopoutPanelManager.exe". This application uses x64 version of SimConnect and you maybe require to install VC++ redistributable 2015-2022 x64  Microsoft VC++ 2015-2022 redistributable x64 on your computer.

How to Use

Getting Started Guide

Open Issues

Open issues, fixes, and release pipelines

Forum Discussion

Please follow forum thread at Flightsimulator.com for ongoing discussion regarding this project. Also please feel free to suggest or recommend features or fixes that will make this tool even better!

Reporting Issue

If you have any issue regarding this tool, please report it in my GitHub page with information for troubleshooting such as screenshots and attach the error.log in the installation folder.
https://github.com/hawkeye-stan/msfs-popout-panel-manager

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MSFS Pop Out Panel Manager

MSFS Pop Out Panel Manager (with Touch Support) is an application for MSFS 2020 which helps pop out, save and position pop out panels onto your screen or another monitor at predetermined locations automatically. It can be used in conjunction with tool such as Sim Innovations Air Manager to simplify pop out placements.

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