For sim pilots who fly it like it's real
Your cockpit's real screens on your iPad, knobs where they really are — and a scorecard and ATC log after every flight.
Max Flight Deck streams the actual glass cockpit of the aircraft you are flying — PFD, MFD, EFB, CDU, GTC — to an iPad, Android tablet or any browser on your Wi-Fi. Tap, turn the knobs and flip switches by touch. Nothing to set up per aircraft.
Windows 10/11 · MSFS 2024 · no app to install on the tablet
What the tablet shows is the aircraft’s own screen
On the PC · MSFS 2024Finds each cockpit screen by itself — turning the camera if a screen is out of view — and pops it out with no Right Alt clicking. Tested across 18 popular aircraft.
Circle your finger to turn: outer ring for the big knob, centre for the small one, tap the centre to push. Fast spins move fast; slow turns move one click.
Lights, electrical, fuel, engines, anti-ice, gear and flaps, autopilot — generated automatically from each aircraft's own controls, with confirmations on anything that could change the flight.
Pan and pinch-zoom the EFB map, type airport codes with the tablet keyboard, scroll lists — the touch feels native.
Pop-outs hide behind the sim, the tablet screen stays awake for long flights, and updates install themselves while you are not flying.
iPad, Android tablet, phone, or a second PC's browser. No app store, just a free Max account — and it only talks to your own PC on your own Wi-Fi.
Two instruments on one tablet — PFD beside the MFD, or the MFD beside the GTC — side by side or stacked, full screen. Pro; the free version can try it for 5 minutes a day.
If a screen cannot be found, one tap stops the search. Tip: look toward that display in the sim first and it is found much faster.
The whole program — PC, tablet and help — in English or Traditional Chinese. Change it anytime in Settings → Language.
Whatever you call it — a flight simulator tablet cockpit, iPad avionics or a remote PFD/MFD — it is the same Max Flight Deck:
The real PFD, MFD and EFB on an iPad.
On any tablet, phone or browser — no extra monitor.
Softkeys and knobs by touch, plus the GTC 580.
PFD, ND, engines, CDU and the MCP knobs.
Max Flight Deck is built for people who fly the simulator seriously. If one of these is you, every part of it was made with you in mind.
PPL, instrument rating, or the checkride you keep putting off.
Real controllers, real phraseology, real pressure on final.
Checklists, a different aircraft every day, no time to set up panels.
Just want your PFD on an iPad? That works too — and you get the scorecard and the ATC log on top.
Max Flight Deck records each flight by itself and tells you how the landing really went — with the numbers behind every remark.
Starts by itself when you start the engine: route, altitude, speeds, every take-off and touchdown, radio frequencies and time acceleration — plus your microphone and the computer's sound.
Descent from 1,000 and 500 ft, airspeed, bank, flare, touchdown load and attitude, touchdown point and centerline, and the take-off checklist (lights, transponder). Each item shows what was measured and the rule.
Calibrated on real light-aircraft logs, including a passed FAA checkride. Jets are judged against a 3° glide path at their own groundspeed, so an airliner's final is not called "steep".
After the flight your radio calls become a written log, made on your own PC: "You", "Radio", and the aircraft's own callouts. Nothing runs while you fly.
Save a flight as one ZIP — telemetry, scorecard, ATC log and a guide for the reader — and hand it to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini for a full debrief.
Recordings are never uploaded. Speech recognition runs on your PC; the free version keeps the log and removes the voice audio once it is written.
Every MSFS 2024 aircraft with glass cockpit screens works the same way. These are tested release by release on a real sim:
And more to come — including add-on aircraft (third-party, free or payware, from the Marketplace or other stores). Each one joins this list once it passes our tests.
Flying something else? Tell us which aircraft and we will test it.
Why I built it
In April 2026 I passed my checkride in a Sling and got my Taiwan ultralight pilot certificate. My goal is an FAA Private Pilot License and an Instrument Rating in the United States in the future.
Real flight hours are expensive, so the simulator became my daily training ground. But in the sim you click buttons with a mouse, and in a real cockpit your hand has to know where the knobs are while your eyes stay outside. I couldn't find a tool that gave me that at a reasonable price, so I built one.
Then I added the two things I needed most: my radio calls written out after every flight, and a record of every landing I could debrief with AI.
And I keep adding small tools, one at a time, so that anyone serious about real flying gets a little more feedback from every simulator flight. More to come.
— Max, Taipei
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One-time purchase. Pay with PayPal — or in Taiwan, in NT$ by card or ATM.
Less than ten minutes in a real airplane.
Buy from inside the program (Settings → Max account → Upgrade to Pro) and Pro turns on by itself seconds after paying.
One file, no installer wizard. It sets itself up in your user folder and keeps itself up to date.
Download Max Flight Deck for WindowsWindows 10 or 11 (64-bit) · Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 · tablet and PC on the same network
Windows may show "Windows protected your PC" for new programs: choose More info → Run anyway. Getting started
Yes. Streaming the real cockpit screens to a tablet is the core of Max Flight Deck, and it works for every MSFS 2024 aircraft. The flight record and the ATC log come with it — use them or ignore them.
No. It is a training aid for a home simulator: it helps your hands learn the avionics and shows you numbers after each flight. Real training happens with an instructor in a real aircraft.
No. It runs in Safari, Chrome or any modern browser. On iPad, use Share → Add to Home Screen and it opens full screen like an app.
Yes, a free Max account. Sign in with Google from the program once (Settings → Max account); the free version starts right away and Pro is optional.
The real thing. Max Flight Deck streams the screens MSFS itself draws for the aircraft you are flying, so every page, mode and add-on screen behaves exactly as in the cockpit.
On a normal home Wi-Fi a screen updates 10 to 20 times a second with a fraction of a second of delay. 5 GHz Wi-Fi or a wired PC helps.
It is built and tested for MSFS 2024.
One tablet or browser at a time; split screen as a 5-minute try once a day; the ATC log can be read in the program but not copied or saved, and each flight is transcribed once; on the PC each flight keeps its summary, scorecard and log. It also shows help pages and tips. Every cockpit feature and every aircraft is the same.
From the flight's own data: the descent from 1,000 and from 500 ft (against a 3° glide path at your groundspeed), your approach speed, bank, the flare from 20 ft to touchdown, touchdown load, attitude, point and centerline. Minor items cost 3 points, faults 8. It is a training aid, not a checkride — every item shows the measured value so you can judge it yourself.
No. Audio is recorded and turned into text on your PC only. The flight's data, scorecard and text log are saved to your Max account.
Yes. Pro belongs to your account, not the PC: sign out on the old PC and sign in on the new one.
It only listens on your local network and only shows MSFS windows unless you allow more. Use it on your own private Wi-Fi and never forward its port on your router.