The Control Center is a quick-access panel that puts your most useful simulator controls one tap away. Open it by tapping the time badge on the top right of the toolbar — the pill-shaped display showing the current time or flight time. Tap outside or drag down to dismiss.
Time
The Time module controls what the toolbar badge displays. Tap a tile to select a mode. Double-tap to select and dismiss the Control Center at the same time.
Zulu
Shows the current UTC time of the simulator.
Local
Shows the local time of the simulator.
Date
Shows the current simulator date.
Flight Time
Shows elapsed flight time and requires an active flight.
TOD
Shows a countdown to Top of Descent.
It requires an active SimBrief OFP. It works also if using the default G1000 avionics with a valid Flight Plan. When available, the badge automatically switches to TOD mode as the point approaches, then reverts to Zulu once the T/D is passed.
Adjust Time
When in Zulu or Local mode, use -30 and +30 to rewind or advance simulator time by 30 minutes. When in Date mode, use Yesterday and Tomorrow to jump by one day.
The Adjust Time module is hidden while a flight is active.
Situation (Premium)
Save overwrites the situation associated with the current aircraft. Save… opens the X-Plane save flight dialog. Load restores the last saved situation for the current aircraft. Load… opens the X-Plane load flight dialog.
Aircraft
Shows the currently loaded aircraft. Use the refresh button in the header to fetch updated aircraft data from the simulator, or the info button to open the full aircraft info sheet.
If the aircraft is saved in your Hangar, the full aircraft card is displayed. Otherwise a compact info card appears — tap it to open the aircraft info sheet.
Flight (Premium)
The Flight module manages your logbook flights and displays live data. The current flight phase (e.g. PARKED, TAXI-OUT, TAKEOFF, etc) is shown as a badge in the module header.
Before a flight
If a SimBrief OFP is loaded, a cyan card shows the planned route and flight number with the full ATC route below it. Tap the card to open the SimBrief provider screen. Below the card, Refresh OFP re-fetches your latest plan from SimBrief and New Flight Plan opens SimBrief to plan a new flight.
If no OFP is loaded, only Fetch SimBrief Plan and New Flight Plan are shown.
During a flight
Two cards are displayed with live data.
The magenta card shows flight session data. Tap it to open the Logbook. It shows the departure and arrival ICAO codes (arrival is taken from the OFP when available) and a live air time counter. Before takeoff the counter runs from flight start and is shown dimmed. After takeoff it counts up from wheels-off. After landing it shows the total air time.
The cyan card appears only when a SimBrief OFP is loaded. Tap it to open the SimBrief provider screen. It shows the planned departure and arrival runways, the ICAO flight number, the estimated arrival time in Zulu time, and the Top of Descent clock time in orange — this disappears once the T/D is passed. Finally, the remaining distance to destination in NM is shown when calculable.
Flight actions
Three buttons appear at the bottom regardless of flight state. Start begins a new logbook flight and switches the time badge to Flight Time. End saves the current flight to the Logbook. Invalidate cancels and discards the current flight without saving.
Flight Start and End can be triggered automatically by Flight Deck ONE. To do so, enable the option in Premium Settings.