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Controlling 2nd aircraft in P3D or FSX?

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Is it possible to control another aircraft when sitting in the VC? I'm imagining a scenario where the aircraft you're piloting is on autopilot and you take "remote" control of another, either using certain keystrokes mapped to its axes or a 2nd dedicated controller (e.g. joystick). If so, how?
 
Wait, you want to simulate a simulation of flying another plane? Why?
 
you can select the 2nd aircraft via the traffic explorer, right click and select "enable user input".
No cockpit of course.
 
Thanks for your replies. The idea here is to control a drone via a manned aircraft. Is there any way such functionality could be coded, perhaps using SimConnect?
 
Via simconnect it should be possible to read controller input and flying an injected simObject from it.
You'd need to set up your own (preferably configurable) controller interface.
 
While the pilot of aircraft 'A', you're also going to control a drone aircraft?
 
The idea here is to control a drone via a manned aircraft.
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Cool idea!, i've some questions about it:

What type of drone are you thinking about?
A - A QF-xx.. version a a full blow jet-fighter aircraft (as target practice drone) like the QF-16 in the links below:
- http://newatlas.com/boeing-f16-jet-unmanned-drone/29203/
- http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/09...hter-jet-first-with-f-16-fighting-falcon.html

B - A full size "regular typ of drone" like the Boeing X47, Dassault UCAV / Neuron, General Atomics Predator / Reaper?
- http://thefutureofthings.com/6329-x-47b-first-navy-stealth-uav-ready/
- http://www.dassault-aviation.com/en...ress-kits/ucav-world-first-dassault-aviation/
- http://www.ga-asi.com/aircraft-platforms

C - A swarm type of drone (stand-off fire and forget weapon) like these ones:
- http://www.scout.com/military/warrior/story/1699517-f-35-to-control-armed-attack-drones
- http://www.defensetech.org/2015/05/...anned-strategy-has-f-35-pilots-flying-drones/

Is there any way such functionality could be coded, perhaps using SimConnect?
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How will you be controlling the drone?
- Statically: from the ground up so flying in formation with the fighter you are taking of with, like a drone-wing-man?
- Dynamically: "On-the-fly" remotely connect with an AI drone, plugin in your remote controls and then:
-> Manually: alter its course interactively via - for example - flipswitch on your (primary) aircraft controls to divert them temporarily to the AI_drone?
-> Remotely: (down? and)/(re)upload / edit the AI-drone's flightplan directly into its AI_flightpath_table in memory?
 
I'm looking forward to hear more about this innovative idea Airtrooper.
 
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