Quick Start

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Quick Start

Your first flight with Duopilo. Assumes Duopilo is installed.

1. Start MSFS and Duopilo

1. Start MSFS 2024 and load a flight.
2. Start Duopilo (Start menu, or C:\Tools\Duopilo\Duopilo.exe). No window opens – Duopilo sits in the notification area of the taskbar.
3. Double-click the tray icon. The dashboard opens at http://127.0.0.1:5155/.

The dot on the tray icon shows the state: gray = waiting for MSFS, green = connected, yellow = caution active, red = warning active.

Check: http://127.0.0.1:5155/status should say "connected": true.

2. Add your SimBrief plan

Dashboard → Settings → SimBrief → enter your SimBrief username or pilot ID. The plan loads right away.

Without a plan, monitoring and callouts still work – but route progress, fuel checks, top of descent and ATC need it.

3. Choose your voice

Duopilo speaks callouts itself. Dashboard → Callouts → Voice: pick the engine (Automatic, Windows, Kokoro), the voice and the output device (e.g. your headset). On first use Kokoro downloads its model (~310 MB). Details: Speech Output.

4. Fly

That's enough for Duopilo as a silent-until-needed PM: it calls out "One hundred knots", "V1", "Rotate", "Positive climb", "Gear up", "Ten thousand", flap speed checks, deviations and warnings. See Pilot Monitoring.

Optional next steps

You want …	Do this
to talk to Duopilo	Dashboard → Callouts → Voice → Voice loop, tick it and choose the microphone → Voice Loop
Duopilo to operate switches on your call	Unlock input: click Input locked twice in the callouts bar → Input Module
ATC from Delivery to Ground	ATC is on by default – with a SimBrief plan, call "Frankfurt Delivery, Lufthansa four alpha bravo, request clearance" → ATC
Claude as your PM	Connecting Claude
German dashboard	Settings → Language → Deutsch (callouts and radio stay English)
small talk with your first officer	Settings → First officer and small talk → First Officer & Small Talk

A typical voice-loop session

You:  "Before start checklist"
F/O:  "Before start checklist, cockpit preparation" …
You:  "Clearance Delivery, Lufthansa four alpha bravo, information A, request clearance to Munich"
ATC:  "Lufthansa four alpha bravo, cleared to Munich, …, squawk two two zero five"
You:  "Cleared to Munich, …, squawk two two zero five, Lufthansa four alpha bravo"
…
You:  "Flaps one"                         → flap lever set, once the flaps are there: "Flaps one"
You:  "Speed two five zero"               → FCU set, "Speed two five zero set"
…
F/O:  "Fuel thirty four point one, two point two below plan"
You:  "Check"