About the only cheap tablets now are the 7-8 inch Android ones that usually have to do with Raspberry etc....I don't know anything about that...

but I was wondering if you got one of those ...could you drag a small part of your instrument panel like the autopilot and put it on the tablet as a second monitor without using Air Manager ....?or any other touch monitor you could find..

among others there is "glass cockpit to sim" and "xplane steam guages" android applications available. (not tried them)

If you use the autoatc app with the 744 you get a page with the fmc

You can also potentially use tablets like a "screen" that you drop xp desktop views on, but performance doing it that way will be somewhat rubbish.

Hi, You could buy an Amazon Fire Table (good value) and turn it into an android tablet. This gives you access to Google Play apps such as Touch Portal which allows you to quire easily create your own button layout to emulate keyboard commands  alternatively there apps to run gauges via web api.

Regards Brian

that sounds interesting...I am a Mac/X plane user. Mac doesn't support touch.Could I set up my keyboard commands in X plane as usual and then use the tablet touch to trigger my X plane commands??and would this get around the Mac touch issue???

edit....I have an old Nexus 7 tablet wifi.Not used for years. I might be able to load Ubuntu Touch on it.

Is there a Ubuntu app that could do an interface between my key commands and my Mac X plane??

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7 hours ago, 4df5 said:

edit....I have an old Nexus 7 tablet wifi.Not used for years. I might be able to load Ubuntu Touch on it

you can probably just install the android app straight from google play.

the Nexus turns out to be way to slow to be any good,2011 era. I will probably get the desktop AM at some point..