Thanks for the review. Really enjoy the way you present the info!

Another great video. Answered all my questions. Thanks

I didn't know I wanted or needed anything like this until watching your video. Now I want one. Looks like a decent piece of hardware. Great video. And thank you so much.

Nice! Thanks for the video. Cool little device.

Hi Russ and greetings from Grand Rapids, MI KGRR ;) Just ordered my OCTAVI last week and am anxious to try it out. I think it will be especially helpful to my 17yr old grandson who is beginning his Private Pilot journey. Thank you! To be continued… Randy (CFI-I)

Brilliant, thanks just what I was looking for👍

Looking forward for further teats with the Octavi. A video on how it works on airliners or the cj4. Also the installation and setup procedure would be great to see (you mentioned a plugin which is required).

Thank you for the video

What a great piece of hardware, I'm not sure how easy it would be use in VR, but I love how many functions are available for such a tiny device. Thanks for the video. Take care Russ.

Thank you, with nerve damage that dial is exactly what I need. I have saved this video and bookmarked the Octavi site and the product sales page at Aerosoft.

This thing looks really nice! I just ordered a Honeycomb Alpha flight yoke and Bravo throttle quadrant, but I think I'm going to order an Otavi as well.

That's a cool product. Thanks for the review Russ. As far as getting it angled, if you know how to use Fusion 360 and have a 3D printer, you could design a holder for it and buy some rubber feet to keep it from slipping.

Functional, and does what it was designed to do. Excellent innovation, love it. 👍

Nice little product! I've just started building my cockpit and recently got air manager and a touch screen and am loving it so far. Was thinking about getting the knobster but for the extra cost and the extra buttons you get I may go for this now... My only two concerns are being able to mount it to something sturdy (would be nice if it came with more permanent mounting solution) and the USB placement. Would be great if they could get it on the rear of the device but given it's small size that may not be possible, however I'd rather have it side or bottom mounted than on the top of the device, much harder to hide the cables like that.

Looks very handy

Wow….great piece of hardware. Is it preconfigured to work with msfs out of the box? or did you have to set up each function individually? Great find! Thank you for sharing.

Looks like a great little gadget. Like the possibility to set the frequencies. I think the price is a bit steep though. As my other gaming peripherals have some of the same functionality, I don't think that I'll be getting this any time soon.

Thanks for the explanations. I got mine yesterday and did not have as much luck (skill) figuring it out as you did. I found the instructions for MS 2020 to be slightly awkward. You didn’t mention The two downloads that need to go in your community folder. Although I may have that wrong. Also, that you have to start it after the SIM is running. thanks again.

Thanks nice product

Pretty cool, thanks for showing.

REally nice device, and I almost ordered it during the kickstarter, but missed the best pricing. Curious if the airport you entered is an indication of where your base is. I am near KLNS and would love your input on my flight sim and how to get all the Air Manager offerings working correctly. I was only able to attend the Friday session at FSExpo in Houston, but was hoping to see more there. Any way we could communicate offline and I could glean some knowledge from you?

Are you going to do a video about your experience and thoughts of FSExpo?

have you tried the loupedeck live S?

Can you elaborate more on its functionality with the MSFS 2000 G1000? I primarily fly the G1000, and would love the functionality of programming the FMS, selecting approaches, getting COMs and NAVs. Thanks for putting together a great initial review.

Just got mine today. Followed the instructions on the website, but it doesnt work very well. Looks like I will have to have a proper look at the weekend

Question for you, I'm using B737 zibo with your panels, was working fine with my touch screen on the same pc as X-Plane 12, Just bought Air Player and Install it on a mini PC with my Dual touch screen, all the other Panels I have work fine, I found the fonction push in Air Manager, so I have all the instruments in Air player, but the panels do not show up. the 2 Zibo B737 MIP Right and Left are not showing up at all. Any idea?

I build a very similar minipanel for X-Plane using Arduino and SIMVIM. Looks very useful and practical. Thx for share it

Does it work out of the box or does it need any setup/software?

This looks like the answer ! Did knobster influence this ? Ive been trying to add G1000 G530? G3000 knobs to MSFS - and cant find anything that makes sense. Isnt everyone trying to avoid mouse turning knobs function ? I guess I was hoping that MSFS would finally add some kind of functions that allow to assign these - like Xplane does (mostly). I have been looking at SPAD NExt but ... uhhh... I kinda figured I would run out of energy. I may not have listened closely - what will this cost ??

Nice! How does this compare to the knobster? I got one of those an appreciate it's use in VR, but would love to keep adding more controls!

How does it work with the g1000? I know you mentioned something, but I would like to see it in action with the g1000...

Around 6:25 you are changing nav2 frequencies instead of the obs heading of nav 2

12:06 I fly DCS, MFSF 2020 just fine with a Retro fighter Blade Game cube controller and really any modern gamepad would work well... Which the hardest part at first with DCS was not the lack of support for game pad it's just another controller after all... But the lack of a good look funtion for right stick... But they fixed that... the issue I have with MSFS 2020 is the odd control behavor with different aircraft and the lack of toggle cbutton options in the controls layout like set is ok not great and if they got that wrong how are HOTAS supposed to work? But any way I would love to try that monstasity as a comntroller collector even if I find it unneed when an Xbox series gamepad is fine and maybe a keyboard and mouse if you need to interact with the cockpit.

If I'd heard about this earlier, I'd have bought one - but as it is they're not available now that the Kickstarter has finished. I would have liked a way to (semi)permanently fix this to a panel - a couple of pre-drilled holes for screws would do. Hopefully, they'll produce more and release them to market....

Hi Russ, As you know I make similar devices, and I think they missed an opportunity, although a very good looking unit, I am sure it would have been better if they designed several devices to do unique functions ie an autopilot device, just not sure of the keep swapping function and using the same encoder kind of looses its appeal for myself. How does it function with the recient AAU2 update esp on g3000- btw great review.

The intro music for the live viewing was really loud. Otherwise a great video Russ! Keep up the good work.

Wont this work with AirManager ? and does it conflict in any way with Honeycomb Bravo Throttle quad?

So I bought the knobster, have not yet ordered the PC for the sim. Is this that much better than the knobster?

Hopefully SPAD can see this device, so we can customise it as we see fit. It seems like a Knobster with some extra buttons thrown in.

Does it work with AirManager?

Does this plug right in and play, or does one have to go through a long and complex process of arranging what the keys do with the sim, like what is necessary (and, for most of us, not done!) with the Honeycomb Bravo? What about FS2020? It has nowhere near as straighforward an interface as XP (although the XP interface still requires a great deal of programming) - in fact, FS2020 apparently requires actual computer programming, a la coding, and other software like FSUIPC, to even think about getting functionality. I have a home made button box, which is a bit more sophisticated than this one, which for all practical purposes is limited to XPlane since FS2020 requires far more to set up, if in fact it can be done at all.....

The concept is good however, as I have seen with many of these devices, they tend to go overboard on the physical optics and therefore limit the versatility of the unit. It would be better to have exchangeable overlays rather than labels on the button faces to allow for different configurations. The goal of a device like this is to completely eliminate the need for mouse or keyboard inputs, not to replicate the panel graphics of the simulator.

Does this work on Xbox?

Neat little thing, but seems the price is a bit high for what it is.

I believe a display should be included. if I want to change the frequency of the radio during the flight ... I have to use the mouse to move the camera and see what I am setting ... so I can also set the frequency using the mouse. It makes no sense. There should be a display that allows you to set parameters without using the mouse.

What happened to OCTAVI - the world's smallest cockpit??? I want to buy one.....Is it possible it was shelved because it would eliminate or reduce the sales of the Knobster?

Captain tell us more

They are not selling it for now.

It's not available anymore, Sell me yours ?

Not sure how they're calling this a cockpit when its just a G1000 button box?

Sorry, but is this not a pointless video considering they’re not selling it?