Little Navmap Features and Limitations

Little Navmap

Version 1.0.2.beta

Features

Supported platforms: Windows XP, 7, 8, 10 (untested), Linux, Mac OS X.
Conservative user interface without experiments: Using a main menu, context menus, toolbars, dock windows, undo, recent file lists and more.
Support for Flight Simulator X, Flight Simulator - Steam Edition, Prepar3D v2 and Prepar3D v3.
Data is collected from flight simulator stock and add-on files. No need to buy or download external data like AIRAC cycles.
Scenery library databases for flight simulators are stored separately and can be changed on the fly.
Weather/METAR display from Active Sky Next (AS16 untested), NOAA or Vatsim in tooltips and information windows.
The program saves almost all settings, like flight plan, windows positions, searches and more and restores everything on start up.
Most question or information dialogs can be disabled.
Little Navmap can be run on computers that do not contain any simulator installations at all. Simply copy the scenery library database from your flight simulator computer.
Information windows and tabs show all about airports or navaids.
Exhaustive search function for airports and navaids that allows filtering by an unimaginable amount of criteria.
Distance and direction based spatial search for airports or navaids around a center point. Can be combined with all other search options.
Search for airports or navaids by BGL file name or path.
Mac OS X and Linux versions in preparation.

Can read and write FSX PLN format (XML).
Flight plans can be created or edited using drag and drop on the map display.
Easy flight plan editing in the table view, like moving and deleting waypoints or whole fragments.
Can merge flight plans or flight plan snippets.
Automatic fast flight plan calculation for high/low altitude airways, VOR/NDB and preset cruise altitude. Flight plan snippets can be calculated between any kind of departure and destination point.
The automatic flight plan calculation is based entirely on flight simulator data. No third party data needed and no online services used.
Elevation profile display for flight plan using online data. Shows minimum altitude for flight plan with a configurable altitude buffer.
Undo/redo for all flight plan changes.
Robust against malformed flight plans. Does not put unknown waypoints far off the route.

Uses several free online maps (OpenStreetMap Mapnik, OpenTopoMap, Stamen Terrain and the OSM Roads layer provided by Heidelberg University) as well as three simple offline maps. The offline maps are included in the Little Navmap download.
Hill shading option for all OpenStreetMap variants. Two map themes feature worldwide hill shading.
Option for adding additional user defined map themes.
No need to download and install any additional elevation or map data for the flight plan elevation profile.
Two projections: Mercator (flat) and spherical (round globe).
Airport display iconography based on real world VFR maps thus combining plenty of information in a small symbol and a few lines of text.
Detailed airport diagrams displayed in the map (not in a separate window) including parking, taxiways, displaced thresholds, overrun areas and much more.
Add-on airport names are shown in italic text for easier recognition. Display settings allow to show only add-on airports.
Distance and course measurement lines and configurable range rings also showing radio navaid ranges.
Can load and display Google Earth KML files.
History of map position and zoom distance like a web browser.
Map display configuration including detail level on the toolbar.
Symbol and text sizes configurable in options dialog.
Detailed tooltips on map display.

Shows simulator user aircraft on the map including flight plan progress, ambient parameters like wind, temperature, pressure and more (similar to a flight management computer). Needs Little Navconnect which is free too.
Shows track of simulator user aircraft.
Using Little Navconnect as an agent between the simulator and Little Navmap saves the pain of remote SimConnect setup.

Display and flight plan integration for approach procedures and transitions.
Display of airspace boundaries.
Support for AIRAC map data.
Zooming and scrolling in flight plan elevation profile view.
Aircraft performance profiles (climb speed, cruise speed, fuel flow, etc.).
Support user defined waypoints.
Support for other weather programs than Active Sky Next.
Display weather stations of on the map.
Allow downloading and using North Atlantic and Pacific tracks for flight plan calculation.
Allow changing of units to meter, kilometer and kilogram.

Last update 2016-09-14