Hello,

last week I did a flight with my friend in shared cockpit. Everything worked great and it was just awesome. Today we wanted to do some flights again, but shared cockpit is not working anymore. We were both in Oslo at the same gate in singleplayer. He was the Pilot Flying and I was the PNF. We selected "start multicrew session as PNF/PF" at the same time. Thereafter my simulator loaded for a long time and we were not able to connect to each other. I have absolutely no clue what is different to last time and I hope you can help me.

 

Thanks for your help!

 

P.S.: We are connected through Hamachi and entered the ports 26869 in the Hamachi settings and in the Load Manager.

The Maddog Forum might be quicker to shed light on this question.

 

 http://www.flythemaddog.com/forum/index.php?s=f8cdcdf6d7c834fb8aacedf16f46df79&showforum=26

After all this time, i've still never tried the shared cockpit of this thing.

The Hamachi way sounds pretty confident, i should try it once.

I have no idea whatsoever how people say the shared cockpit works as good as claimed. I've tried it before. The MASTER computer works fine but the SLAVE is choppy as ......well you know. It's has to update its position to the master computer and every 5-10 seconds (or whatever the time frame was) the slave computers MD80 would either jump up or down a few hundred feet or forward or backward a few hundred feet. It doesn't do this for you guys?

Our group makes about 8 shared cockpit flights per week (have done so for about 8 years), though we run full firewalls, computer security, etc.  We never use Hamachi, but connect straight in using the built in Maddog networking.

 

Hamachi was originally used by those using FS9, and it's use has somehow continued well past when it was needed.  The only real problem using it is that it can bypass some computer security features, which is one of the reasons we don't use it.

 

I'm not sure what computer security you're running, if any, so it is next to impossible to guess at what might be causing your issues.  Can you tell me what firewalls you're running (software and hardware), if you have port forwarding enabled, etc?

 

 

I have no idea whatsoever

 

Jack,

 

If you'll live our live streams, you'll find it's a smooth as can be. It took us a while to understand how th software was designed, what the influences on the flight dynamics for each aircraft (computer) were and how to groom systems, but after that it's been a piece of cake.

 

It works ALMOST flawlessly.  Lost track of how many excellent shared cockpit flights I've had over the past eight years.

 

Hope this has helped!