<<<>>>I'm not quite with you here, but that's not surprising as I am a technical dinosaur. Although I don't bother for the most part as my daughter has permanently hijacked Computer No. 2 ( and at 4, is faster on the browser than I am) I have often run multiple instances of FS to give spot view on the second system using Wideview, etc. And then there's multiplayer ... I fly two or three times a week for two or three hours with fifteen to twenty other aircraft and our synchronisation is absolutely in real time, give or take the odd glitch here and there. We turn on aprons within feet of each other, fly formations, fly accurate traffic patterns ... I suppose I am just not understanding why you think network latency is going to be a problem with pilot inputs which, after all, are hardly split-second movements.Tell me more, thanks.MarkVP FleetDC-3 Airwayshttp://www.swiremariners.com/newlogo.jpg

If two pilots are sharing a flight deck, and both have sets of flight controls, what happens when both pilots are moving flight controls (e.g. joysticks) at the same time? This is a fundamental r/w problem when the pilots are sitting at a set of mechanically-interconnected flight controls in the same airplane. If both have throttle quads with gear handles, what happens when one raises the gear, but the handle on the other pilot's hardware quad is still down? If random icing affects the flight dynamics of one acft, how is that translated to the other? If the scenery BGLs or navaid databases in the two sims are different, how will that affect things? Etc etc.As far as latency and jitter...watching another acft move on the ramp near you is a whole different animal than needing to synch the cockpit views at a sufficiently fast and smoothed update rate to produce the same smooth motion view in both sims (while also synching engine and other panel parameters in a complex add-on acft, weather, other multiplayer acft etc). A detailed discussion of real-time data systems is beyond the scope of this discussion, but it's a central problem for a system like this. Add to that the vagaries of MSFS internals and it makes me less than optimistic.I'll never say never...it'd be great if they pull it off, but I remain skeptical until the capability is demonstrated without a heap of caveats and restrictions a foot deep.CheersBob ScottATP IMEL Gulfstream II-III-IV-V L-300Washington, DC