albar965 / littlenavmap

Little Navmap is a free flight planner, navigation tool, moving map, airport search and airport information system for Flight Simulator X, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, Prepar3D and X-Plane.

Latest Stable Release

► Windows 64-bit Installer (MSFS and X-Plane) - LittleNavmap-win64-3.0.9-Install.exe
► macOS - LittleNavmap-macOS-3.0.9.zip
► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-22.04-3.0.9.tar.xz
► Linux Debian Installation Package (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-22.04-3.0.9-1_amd64.deb

Other Versions:

► Windows 32-bit Installer (only for FSX and P3D) - LittleNavmap-win32-3.0.9-Install.exe
► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04 for Debian or older systems) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-20.04-3.0.9.tar.xz
► Linux Debian Installation Package (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-20.04-3.0.9-1_amd64.deb

Zipped Windows releases without installer are available in the alternative download locations below or from the release assets at GitHub - Little Navmap Releases - Version 3.0.9 (scroll down to Assets).

► Alternative Download Locations

Little Navmap Links

► Screenshots for Little Navmap

► Screenshots of new 2.8 Features

► User manuals for Little Navmap and Little Navconnect

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► Little Navmap - Frequently asked Questions

► Little Navmap - Install Navigraph Updates Shows how to update the included Navigraph database to the latest cycle.

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► Support Forum at Avsim Support and help for users.

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Little Navmap

Little Navmap is a free open source flight planner, navigation tool, moving map, airport search and airport information system for Flight Simulator X, Prepar3D, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and X-Plane and is available for Windows, Apple macOS and Linux.

Little Navmap comes with a detailed manual also including tutorials which is available online as well as in PDF and other formats like EPUB. Help buttons in all relevant areas of the program display corresponding chapters in the online manual on click.

A widely configurable map display using the OpenStreetMap as a background map which is only one option of many online and included offline maps. The map shows airports, navaids, airways, airspaces, oceanic tracks, high altitude winds, AI or multiplayer aircraft and ships as well as airport weather, winds aloft and a minimum off-route altitude grid (MORA). A seamlessly integrated airport diagram displays taxiways, displaced thresholds, overrun areas, aprons, parking spots and more.

User can place airport traffic patterns or holdings as a visual guidance on the map.

It supports approach and departure procedures like SIDs, STARs, custom final approaches, offers a widely configurable automatic flight plan calculation and several export formats like GFP (Reality XP GTN and Flight1 GTN), FPL (Reality XP GNS), GPX, RTE, FLP and X-Plane FMS as well as drag and drop flight plan editing on the map. The program can read the PLN, FMS and FLP and more flight plan formats.

Several flight plan formats can be exported using the flight plan multiexport feature with one click.

Keyboard shortcuts help to access most functions without mouse.

An elevation profile is shown for the flight plan allowing to find a safe cruise altitude also displaying top of climb, top of descent and procedure altitude restrictions. Calculated and shown climb as well as descent paths adhere to altitude restrictions.

Aircraft performance and fuel planning is included which automatically considers winds aloft for fuel, top of climb and top of descent calculation. Performance values can be collected automatically during flight and can be merged into the currently profile at any time.

Search functionality allows to look for airports, navaids, procedures, user defined waypoints and logbook entries by a large amount of criteria also including a spatial search.

Userpoint functionality allow to place, edit and export user defined features like points of interest, visual reporting points and more on the map. Import and export of CSV, X-Plane and Garmin files.

Little Navmap comes with its own logbook allowing to automatically record, search and edit logbook entries. The logbook records the flight plan and the flown track which can be exported to GPX files.

Oceanic and other tracks like NAT can be downloaded, shown on the map and can be used for automatic flight plan calculation.

The program can generate an ATS route description from flight plans and vice versa where the output is widely configurable.

A cycle 1801 database courtesy of Navigraph is included in the download and includes navaids, airways, airspaces, procedures and more. The navigation data can be updated by the Navigraph FMS Data Manager.

Display of clients and centers of VATSIM, IVAO, PilotEdge and custom online networks.

Little Navmap features its own internal web server which allows to follow aircraft progress from any device across a network.

Supported Flight Simulators: All FSX versions from SP2 up, Flight Simulator - Steam Edition, Prepar3D v4, v5, v6, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, X-Plane 11 and X-Plane 12.

Supported platforms: Windows 7/8/10/11, Apple macOS (10.12 or newer only) and Linux (64 bit only).

littlenavmap's Issues

Error loading S720_AGN_Trees.BGL in FSXSE

[2016-10-01 15:23:51.431 default INFO ]  unknown:0: ==== "3756 of 13617 (27 %)" "S720_AGN_Trees.BGL"
[2016-10-01 15:23:51.438 default WARN ]  unknown:0: Invalid magic number 1: 0x1e950506, 2: f021f04
[2016-10-01 15:23:51.499 default CRIT ]  unknown:0: Caught exception: readInt for file "E:/Steam/steamapps/common/FSX/Scenery/Global/scenery/S720_AGN_Trees.BGL" failed. Reason 1

Flight plan transfer to flight simulator and back

Once the flight plan changes in Navmap automatically copy it to FSX computer and call
SimConnect_FlightPlanLoad.

If a flight plan changes in the simulator load it:
SimConnect_SubscribeToSystemEvent with FlightPlanActivated parameter.

Check if this is also doable for X-Plane.

Fix crashes when using navdata updates

When calculating a route with navdata updates waypoints can end up in another universe. This will freeze the program.

Example EKVG to EGED

Add semi full screen mode

Hide all overlays and remove menus, toolbars, etc.

Use Active Sky route weather

Use Active Sky route weather file if route is loaded which gives slightly different metars compared to the wx snapshot.

Make aircraft text information configurable

Add checkbox list that allows to configure the text at the user aircraft.

Indicators in search panel

Add an indicator in the search panel that shows if all search parameters are default.
Add an indicator for each line (i.e. red vertical bar or red frame around changed widget) .

Connect dialog jumps back to fist entry in drop down list

Goes back to localhost or first entry after restart. This affects reconnect too.

Invalid route type if route is built manually

Flight plan type can be empty if plan was build manually.

As a workaround calculate a Victor (or something else) plan after setting departure and destination. Then do "Calculate Direct". This will add the correct value "Direct" to the RouteType.

Home position is reset after erasing database

Splash screen can hide dialog on startup

Erase question dialog is hidden by splash screen. Currently reproducible on Mac version.

Two letter region id for airport is missing

Add dark theme

Use black and white map theme and draw a semi transparent overlay to make the map darker.
https://gist.github.com/Skyrpex/5547015

qApp->setStyle(QStyleFactory::create("fusion"));
QPalette palette;
palette.setColor(QPalette::Window, QColor(53,53,53));
palette.setColor(QPalette::WindowText, Qt::white);
palette.setColor(QPalette::Base, QColor(15,15,15));
palette.setColor(QPalette::AlternateBase, QColor(53,53,53));
palette.setColor(QPalette::ToolTipBase, Qt::white);
palette.setColor(QPalette::ToolTipText, Qt::white);
palette.setColor(QPalette::Text, Qt::white);
palette.setColor(QPalette::Button, QColor(53,53,53));
palette.setColor(QPalette::ButtonText, Qt::white);
palette.setColor(QPalette::BrightText, Qt::red);
palette.setColor(QPalette::Highlight, QColor(142,45,197).lighter());
palette.setColor(QPalette::HighlightedText, Qt::black);
palette.setColor(QPalette::Disabled, QPalette::Text, Qt::darkGray);
palette.setColor(QPalette::Disabled, QPalette::ButtonText, Qt::darkGray);
qApp->setPalette(palette);

alternative:

qApp->setStyle(QStyleFactory::create("Fusion"));

QPalette darkPalette;
darkPalette.setColor(QPalette::Window, QColor(53,53,53));
darkPalette.setColor(QPalette::WindowText, Qt::white);
darkPalette.setColor(QPalette::Base, QColor(25,25,25));
darkPalette.setColor(QPalette::AlternateBase, QColor(53,53,53));
darkPalette.setColor(QPalette::ToolTipBase, Qt::white);
darkPalette.setColor(QPalette::ToolTipText, Qt::white);
darkPalette.setColor(QPalette::Text, Qt::white);
darkPalette.setColor(QPalette::Button, QColor(53,53,53));
darkPalette.setColor(QPalette::ButtonText, Qt::white);
darkPalette.setColor(QPalette::BrightText, Qt::red);
darkPalette.setColor(QPalette::Link, QColor(42, 130, 218));

darkPalette.setColor(QPalette::Highlight, QColor(42, 130, 218));
darkPalette.setColor(QPalette::HighlightedText, Qt::black);

qApp->setPalette(darkPalette);

qApp->setStyleSheet("QToolTip { color: #ffffff; background-color: #2a82da; border: 1px solid white; }");

Add weather icons (cloud, rain, etc.) for stations

Add an icon for each station/airport that sums up the weather in a simple form: Rain, cloud, snow, windy, wind directon etc.
This issue is related to #283.

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/13280/what-do-the-different-colors-of-weather-stations-indicate-on-skyvector
https://www.ametsoc.org/amsedu/dstreme/extras/wxsym2.html
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetterkarte

Add simple TOD calculator

Show TOD on the route based a a simple calculation of the 1:3 (or 1:N) rule.

Allow to enable/disable map overlays

Support FSX approaches and transitions

• Allow user to select approaches and transition from FSX stock data
• Draw these on the map
• Add waypoints to flight plan
• Save selected appr and trans as a look-aside file besides PLN

Add helipads to runway information window

Allow to switch metric/imperial/nautical units

Allow to switch units:

• Meter, km, km/h
• Feet, miles, miles/h
• Feet, nautical miles, knots
  For altitude, speed, distance.

The same for coordinate formats:

• Deg/min/sec format
• Decimal format

Additionally change shortened runway length in map display to full number and unit.
Change pressure from mbar to hPa.

FSX SE not correctly recognized

[2016-10-01 15:16:51.884 default DEBUG]  unknown:0: Found a flight simulator base path for type atools::fs::FsPaths::SimulatorType(FSX) at "E:\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\FSX"
[2016-10-01 15:16:51.885 default DEBUG]  unknown:0: Found a flight simulator base path for type atools::fs::FsPaths::SimulatorType(FSX_SE) at ""
[2016-10-01 15:16:51.885 default DEBUG]  unknown:0: Found a flight simulator base path for type atools::fs::FsPaths::SimulatorType(P3D_V2) at ""
[2016-10-01 15:16:51.885 default DEBUG]  unknown:0: Found a flight simulator base path for type atools::fs::FsPaths::SimulatorType(P3D_V3) at ""
[2016-10-01 15:16:51.885 default DEBUG]  unknown:0: atools::fs::FsPaths::SimulatorType(FSX) FsPathType[registry entry true, has database false, base path "E:\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\FSX", scenery config "c:\\Documents And Settings\\All Users\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\FSX\\Scenery.CFG"]

Synchronize simulator selection between loading dialog and map

Add aircraft performance profiles and editor

Also add TOC, TOD, fuel consumption, etc.
Collect performance automatically when flying.

Or support Fuelplanner.com

Exchange flightplan as ICAO route string

Like: EDDS TAU EDDK
Add menu item that copies the flight plan in short format to the clipboard and
another function that allows to enter the text format for a flight plan.

Update time and distance during flight in flight plan window

Disable aircraft tracking on double click

When showing airport, etc. disable aircraft tracking.

Start Little Navconnect automatically before connecting

Add HTML export

Export the content of the route table view and a selectable map excerpt to a HTML document which can also be printed directly using the Qt printing API.

Change aircraft symbol based on used aircraft

Extend the navconnect protocol for airplane information and the use different aircraft icons:

• Single, two and four engines
• Helicopter

Add delete item button to connection dialog drop down list

Show AI and multiplayer aircraft on map

Allow to selected visible text information for label.

Add database download to client computer

Support for AIRAC data (Compiler)

Use waypoints, airways from AIRAC data in first step.
Later (new issue) add SIDs, STARs and approaches.

Add wind pointer to map

Use a overlay or paint directly the wind direction on the map for the user aircraft if active.
Option to switch it off.
Alternatively (optional) paint wind pointer directly at the user aircraft.

Add reload map menu item

Last position is not restored on startup

Display traffic and centers of VATSIM, IVAO and own servers

Load files here:
http://status.vatsim.net/status.txt
https://ivao.aero/softdev/ivai.asp

https://ivao.aero/ViewDocument.aspx?Path=/
https://doc.ivao.aero/apidocumentation:whazzup
DATA URL http://api.ivao.aero/getdata/whazzup/whazzup.txt

Make download URLs configurable in options dialog for other organizations.

Add optional track line to user aircraft

A line attached to the front of the user aircraft showing the current track.
Should be able to switch it off in the options.

Add user waypoint and bookmark managment

Export to Garmin user.wpt and X-Plane user_wpt.dat. Maybe a bglcompiler XML too.

Store custom waypoints in the database and allow export and import to CSV.

What I'd like to see added is a possibility to show the Project Tupolev, SCS and SamDim plane RSBN beacons from the two used types of databases.

Proposal from Paul:

Ability to add user defined waypoints to LNM and have these automatically loaded when creating a new database so that they are persistent and not deleted each time you reload the flight sim data.

Allow to set locale for number format in CSV file.

More ideas for bookmarks:
Add editable comment column to airport.
Add editable tabs to airport.

Load and export X-Plane user_fix.dat

Support a cloud database.

Set timestamp of last change.

Examples:
airspace_and_userdefined_points_example.zip

Punti Riporto VFR 2016 Febbraio.zip

VRP
http://www.airports.de/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,51/lang,de/

Add radio navaid frequencies to approach information

Probably overlaps with #16.

Show airspace boundaries

Read and display airspace boundaries, support tooltips, etc.

Highlight next route point

Highlight next route point on map and in the route table view.

Add more map customization options

• Allow to change aircraft symbol size separate from the other icons
• Route thickness
• Trail thickness and style
• Range ring color and thickness

User aircraft updates are not smooth

Try to use floating point position on highest update rate.
Additionally create a mode that follows the map constantly (no boxed mode).

Dock windows cannot be resized when undocked

Need to update to Qt 5.7 to fix.

Add zoom and scroll functionality in elevation profile

Omit long airway segments in loading process

Split airways at all segments that are longer than e.g. 100 nm. Drop the long segments.

Add print functionality

child of #4

Allow to exclude BGL files from loading

Add another button "Add File" to the exclusion list in the options dialog

Improve error handling while loading scenery

Skip all BGL files that cause an exception and report errors at the end of the loading process.

Constantly try to reconnect to navconnect

Add extra statusbar indication for connection status too:

• Trying
• Connected
• Lost
• None