Home cockpit software for Windows

Wire your cockpit.
Fly it in DCS and BMS.

Cockpit Manager finds your panel boards, walks you through wiring every switch, knob and gauge, and keeps your cockpit in sync with the sim while you fly. It's free, with every feature.

Download freeSee what it does

F-16C in DCS World and Falcon BMS. A-10C coming soon.

Cockpit Manager: the Instruments page, picking how each gauge is built
From the community

Watch a builder wire one up.

The Viper Project connects DIY panels, displays and gauges to DCS World with the manager, in two parts.

Part 1: panelsBoard setup, flashing the firmware, pin assignment, learn wiring and an OLED screen, then a DCS demo. 19 minutes.
Part 2: displays and gaugesThe DED, the FFI, 7-segment displays, engine gauges and an LED dot matrix caution panel. 27 minutes.
The Viper Project on YouTube →

Finds your boards

Every AIM board on your cockpit network, and every DIY board on USB, shows up by itself. A setup wizard walks you through each one.

Wire it, then learn it

Assign each switch, knob and pot to a pin, or flip the switches and let learn mode find the wiring. Test it live, with no round trips to the sim.

Installs the sim side

The manager installs the integration for DCS World and Falcon BMS. You never edit a file by hand.

Displays on extra monitors

Puts your MFDs, DED, RWR, HUD and EHSI on extra monitors in both sims. In DCS the setup is called AIM Displays.

In use

See it at work.

Cockpit Manager: Every control, live
Every control, liveConsole Panels shows the airframe one console at a time: each panel, each control, its wiring and its state as you move it.
Cockpit Manager: A wizard for every board
A wizard for every boardName the board, tick the panels it carries, assign the pins, and save. The board starts using the setup at once.
Invictus hardware

AIM boards just work.

AIM panel boards (Sidewinder and Phoenix) connect over one Ethernet cable that carries data and power: no separate power supplies, no USB hubs, no drivers. They never need a key, and neither do Invictus displays.

AIM boards at invictuscockpits.com →
Your own boards

Build with what's in the drawer.

The manager also drives panels on your own Arduino, Teensy, Raspberry Pi Pico or ESP32 boards over USB: the same wizard, live testing, learn mode, lamps, gauge needles and displays. Setting them up takes a key: free, or pay what it's worth to you. Invictus hardware never needs one.

Get a key →