I fly multiplayer fairly often with my brother-in-law on both MSFS2024 and MSFS2020 both in flatscreen and VR and - as many folks around here know - it is jaw-dropping.  Flying in formation with other players adds another dimension to flight simming.  I would thoroughly recommend joining one of the group flights that folks such as Mark of the Simhanger Youtube channel organises from time to time - the experience is surreal.

But B-I-L and I have been trying out something else this week: we have taken tentative steps into the world of shared cockpits with the free 'FS Copilot' app.  And, in spite of unrelated system challenges (he's been mainly using MSFS2020 for the past year or so on a relatively 'light' system and still on Windows 10 - so we needed to get him up to SU5 2024 from whatever version and status 2024 was a year or so ago with all of the related challenges of updating settings, etc. ) it has been a remarkable experience. 

Installation of FS Copilot was a breeze and we kicked it off running on one of the base MSFS package models currently included in their impressive list of MS and 3rd Party aircraft models.  In our case, we chose the stock Cessna G1000 with him in pilot position and me in the co-pilot seat.

Wow oh wow!!!

The app is extremely easy to install and boot up - and then there we were, next to each other in the 'same' aircraft.  We took off, gained height, did a bit of flying around - with him at the controls while I sorted the frequencies - and then I took over the controls and we landed at back at the same departure airport. 

What I was particularly impressed with was that he is running in Windows 10, with a mdest RTX3070Ti and modest non-3D AM4 processor set up, I'm running on Windows 11 with a RTX4080 with a meaty x3D AM5 processor - and yet it worked a treat in both flat screen and VR.

It's added a completely new dimension to an already jaw-dropping sim!    👍

Edited May 13May 13 by AJZip2

Nice! 😎

I'd say, as long as you're not looking for 4k or "everything on ULTRA" settings, the RTX3070Ti is a very capable GPU.   I'd personally reserve 'modest' for the RTX XX60 cards, or pre-RTX GPUs.

But I only have a 3080, so that's probably why I'm sticking up for the 3070Ti! 😄

Edited May 13May 13 by JYW