rksoftware has released Spotty - The Ultimate Plane Spotting and Scenery Explorer for MSFS 2024 / 2020

rksoftware proudly announces the release of Spotty, a new tool for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and 2020, designed to bring plane spotting and scenery exploring – as simple as possible.

This tool is for flight simmers looking for an easy way to do MSFS airplane spotting and scenery exploring with a click. Spotty transforms your simulator into an airplane spotting and scenery exploring platform. Spotty gives you instant access to any airport, 3D Cities or POI views anywhere in the MSFS world.

Your Ultimate MSFS Companion for plane spotting and Scenery Exploration.

Spotty transforms Microsoft Flight Simulator into a visual playground.

Whether you're chasing airplanes or admiring handcrafted scenery, Spotty makes it effortless.

 • Instant Access to Any Airport Teleport to any airport worldwide and enjoy stunning plane spotting from the best vantage points.

 • Explore Photogrammetry Cities and Landmarks / Points of Interest (POIs) Effortlessly teleport to Photogrammetry Cities and Landmarks / Points of Interest (POIs) or jump to a user saved spotter or scenery location.

 • Save Your Favorite Spotty Views Bookmark and reload your top Spotty locations for quick access to your go-to airports and scenic hotspots.

Whether you're a scenery scout, aviation fan, or content creator, Spotty brings precision and ease to your MSFS experience

Spotty can be ordered from www.simmarket.com or www.flightsim.to  for 9 Euro.

Youtube video:

Spotty Plane spotter and scenery explorer

Did you know, that Captain Kirk has never said the sentence "beam me up, Spotty!" 

Some preliminary questions:

1. Does it have an icon on the toolbar, or it's an external application that has to be started from windows/desktop together with the sim?.

2. Does it run in MSFS fullscreen mode?

3. Could the user create viewpoints for later use?

4. Are you related to the creator(s) of FSRealistic?

The app looks interesting.

Edited October 5, 2025Oct 5 by edpatino

I don't have this handy little utility yet, but from what I see in the videos:

1) Toolbar
2) Yes to full screen.
3) Looks like you can.

4) Don't know!

Looks pretty cool with it's ability to instantly jump from airport to airport let alone region or continent.

11 hours ago, edpatino said:

Some preliminary questions:

1. Does it have an icon on the toolbar, or it's an external application that has to be started from windows/desktop together with the sim?.

2. Does it run in MSFS fullscreen mode?

3. Could the user create viewpoints for later use?

4. Are you related to the creator(s) of FSRealistic?

The app looks interesting.

1. It is an external app that can be loaded before or after MSFS is launched.

It stays ontop of the MSFS screen and can be minimized.

2. Yes, it run in both fullscreen and window modes.

3. Yes, you can easily make your own spotter location and instantly go to any saved location.

3. No

Check out this video to see how easily you can add spotter location at EGLL.

 

@rksoftware can a person record a landing, pull up a saved position in "spotty" and watch the replay of the landing?

One last question (for the time...): the app will remain on top of the screen, or can it be sent to the background too, while not in use?. I make this question because instead of being minimized it would be more convenient to be able to send it to the background when you're running MSFS in full-screen mode. Thanks in advance.

I have absolutely no need for a plane spotter as long as gears appear/disappear from the spotted planes from one moment to another, depending on the distance to the observed object. This is true for taxiing as well as for take off and landing. 

Edited October 6, 2025Oct 6 by Nemo

57 minutes ago, Nemo said:

I have absolutely no need for a plane spotter as long as gears appear/disappear from the spotted planes from one moment to another, depending on the distance to the observed object. This is true for taxiing as well as for take off and landing. 

Yep, this tends to spoilt it a bit doesn't it?  Traffic in MSFS still needs plenty of work for sure.

2 hours ago, edpatino said:

One last question (for the time...): the app will remain on top of the screen, or can it be sent to the background too, while not in use?. I make this question because instead of being minimized it would be more convenient to be able to send it to the background when you're running MSFS in full-screen mode. Thanks in advance.

it can be sent to the background / taskbar

Hi - I've bought it and I think it has great potential.  But the instructions leave a lot to be desired and, if I didn't happen to have had a games controller plugged in (which I usually don't) and thought to try that, I'm not sure I would have ever sorted out how to change the view once the camera was over the selected spot.   

Can't get it to work in MSFS2024 at all.  The rk-spotty folder is in the MSFS2024 Community Folder but it is not showing up in the sim's aircraft list or in MSFS2024 community library lists, enabled or not.

 

2 minutes ago, AJZip2 said:

Can't get it to work in MSFS2024 at all.  The rk-spotty folder is in the MSFS2024 Community Folder but it is not showing up in the sim's aircraft list or in MSFS2024 community library lists, enabled or not.

 

Well, let the developer respond to that but if spotty is an external app it doesn’t have to go into the Community folder at all

Edited October 6, 2025Oct 6 by edpatino

28 minutes ago, edpatino said:

Well, let the developer respond to that but if spotty is an external app it doesn’t have to go into the Community folder at all

The app itself puts a file into your community folder that ends up in your list of 'aircraft' (you load up rk-spotty as your aircraft when you boot up the 'flight')

**And an update - at third try, I have got it to work in MSFS2024.  The rs-spotty isn't showing on my aircraft list but, if I 'search airplane' with 'rk' it found the file and I could load it in as the pseudo aircraft as I was already able to in MSFS2020.

I like the result...but without either a better UI or 'help' explanation this will, in my view, defeat many users

Edited October 6, 2025Oct 6 by AJZip2