On 5/13/2026 at 2:29 AM, AJZip2 said:

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!    👍

Fantastic - must try with my son! 😁

FWIW, Multi-Crew as with FS Copilot is built in to quite a few DCS World aircraft, and I’ve had many great shared-cockpit flights there.

It’s particularly rewarding when combined with Multi-Player, too!

So great to know multi-crew is available for MSFS now, too. Thank you! 🙏

32 minutes ago, SKEWR said:

I'd definitely like to try a complex flight of a few hours with a real co pilot for a more real feel to complex procedural simming.

In my understanding you cannot operate the plane with your copilot at the same time. Either you take control of the aircraft or he does. You cannot push a button while your colleague steer the aircraft.

Guys look at the interface: simple is beautiful 😃

7 hours ago, Simicro said:

In my understanding you cannot operate the plane with your copilot at the same time. Either you take control of the aircraft or he does. You cannot push a button while your colleague steer the aircraft.

Guys look at the interface: simple is beautiful 😃

That's not quite right...but we haven't had chance to fully work out how best to use it so I can't be definitive.

For the main flight controls yes, the correct way is to:

agree who is taking control

that person presses the above burron (or, especially in VR assigns a key or button on their HOTAS

then they have control

BUT the other player can still do everything else - just as in real life ( flaps, landing gear, switches, frequencies) and the player 'with control' can see those effects.

The bit I haven't fully bottomed is that same other player can actually move their main flying controls and effectively wrech control from the other...but doing this confuses the system and produces unpredictable results

Good, better than what I thought!