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Virtual Deck - ClearedToCode decks on your phone or tablet

Free: fly every ClearedToCode aircraft deck from a phone or tablet. Live lights, readouts, dials and radios over your home Wi-Fi. One Windows app, SimConnect only.

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Version 1.0.4

by ClearedToCode

34.6 MB

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MSFS 2020 + 2024

Tested before release

Built by simmers

Requirements

Requirements - Windows 10 or 11. - Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 or 2024. - A phone or tablet with a web browser on the same Wi-Fi / home network as the PC. - At least one ClearedToCode Stream Deck aircraft deck installed on the PC (installed the usual way with the Stream Deck app). A Stream Deck device is not needed, and the Stream Deck app does not have to be running while you fly.

About this add-on

Virtual Deck is FREE: no demo, no serial, no time limit.

- NEW in 1.0.4: switching decks now sticks. A deck you open from the deck list (or the list itself) stays until you load another aircraft, and the deck name at the top goes back to the list on every deck. Thanks Tanuki360.

No Stream Deck? Use the phone in your pocket.

Virtual Deck is a small Windows app that runs the ClearedToCode aircraft decks you have installed and shows them in your phone's or tablet's web browser. Load an aircraft in MSFS and its panel is on the phone within seconds: keys light up like the annunciators in the cockpit, readouts and gauges update live, and pressing a key changes the sim. Change aircraft and the phone swaps decks by itself.

Pairing takes one scan: the PC shows a QR code, you point your phone camera at it, done. No app store, no account.

Features

- Runs every ClearedToCode deck you have installed: C172 (G1000 NXi), A220, A350, A380, 737, E-Jets, Fenix A320 and vDeck, all on one SimConnect connection.

- Keys with lit annunciator strips in green, amber and red, the same states as the Stream Deck version.

- Touch dials: drag or tap - / + to turn, tap to push, hold to long-push.

- Radios on page 2: COM 1, COM 2, NAV 1 and XPDR. Turn to tune standby, push to swap, XPDR push for the next digit and hold for IDENT.

- Live readouts and gauges: fuel, flaps, trim, route progress, autopilot targets.

- Panel sections with titles, laid out like a real panel.

- Fits any screen, portrait or landscape, phone or tablet. Nothing scrolls sideways; a page that does not fit continues on the next tab.

- Pair by QR code or a 6-character code. Pair as many devices as you like and revoke them from the PC.

- One exe, no installer, no console window. Quit from the PC page.

How to use

1. Unzip and double-click "ClearedToCode Virtual Deck.exe".

2. The app is not code-signed yet: if SmartScreen warns, click "More info", then "Run anyway".

3. When Windows Firewall asks, allow Virtual Deck on Private networks.

4. Scan the QR code on the PC page with your phone camera (or open the address shown and type the code).

5. Start MSFS and load an aircraft that has a ClearedToCode deck. Fly. (Or tap any deck in the list to open it before the sim is running.)

Full instructions are in README.txt in the download.

Known limits

- No layout editor yet. Layouts follow each deck's Stream Deck + XL profile and reflow to your screen. Rearranging keys and custom actions are coming in a later update.

- Only aircraft with an installed ClearedToCode deck get a panel. vDeck (radios) covers any other aircraft if you have it installed.

- Home network only: the phone and PC must be on the same network. No remote access.

- Plain HTTP on your home network; every command needs a paired device.

- The app is unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen warns the first time.

Support

Questions, bugs and ideas are welcome on Discord. Please attach virtualdeck.log from %LOCALAPPDATA%\ClearedToCode\VirtualDeck when you report a problem.

Website: https://clearedtocode.com

Discord: https://discord.gg/MrcTkZ3YXq

Changelog

v1.0.4

- Switching decks now sticks: a deck you open from the deck list, or the deck list itself, stays until you load another aircraft. Before, the loaded aircraft's own deck (for example the C172) kept coming back. Thanks Tanuki360.

- The deck name at the top of the panel goes back to the deck list on every deck, including the one that opened with your aircraft.

- A short SimConnect reconnect no longer drops the deck you picked.

- The Decks page on the PC explains that decks are switched on the phone or tablet, and how to open one with the sim closed.