Samsung Tab 8 - school me on possibilities

[delta_lima]

Hi all.

Work donated me an old Samsung Tab 8 with 32 GB. I was initially thinking of using it as a home YouTube watching and/or note taking device.

But am curious about uses cases/applications in MSFS2020. Most of my sim flying is military, so am thinking maybe checklists? Is there a way to tie into the sim and sync with a flight plan, freqs, etc.?

Have never used a separate device, since frankly, I liked the FSX and P3D kneeboard. I don’t find MSFS has the same, and so maybe an external tool could be helpful?

Thanks in advance for ideas.

 

[rvn817j]

Look at the Sky4Sim discussion on this thread - https://sim-outhouse.org/sohforums/threads/msfs-2020-tools.120977/#post-1372853

You can move Sky4Sim functions on to the tablet.

 

[DennyA]

Sky4sim, or the tablet in FS2024. If there’s an Android utility to turn it into a srcind monitor like there is for the iPad, you can put the PMS GTN750 on the tablet display.

 

[Navy Chief]

I have not tried that with my Samsung A9+, but I did so with previous Amazon Fire tablets and a old Apple 2nd Generation IPAD. Heck, am fairly certain you could use a Smartphone too. NC

 

[Navy Chief]

ALSO! Check out the Touch Portal app. They have a free and a pro version. Very, very cool app!

 

[Tako_Kichi]

Have a look at Sim Dashboard: https://www.stryder-it.de/simdashboard/index

I use it as a dashboard for my trucking sims and I have used it for radios, APs, button/switches etc. in FSX.

There are literally thousands of user created templates to download and you can modify or create your own easily.

I have it on an Android tablet as well as my phone and I have the desktop app on my PC as I find it easier to edit templates on the PC and then transfer them to the tablet/phone.

 

[rvn817j]

Larry - Great tip. And for those of us that use DCS, I noticed that there is some community support for DCS cockpit items (tactical map, F-18 center console, etc.).