Version 3.0.6

Notes

This is a stable release of Little Navmap which fixes several bugs and adds a few improvements and new features.

Notable changes: New add-on airport filter modes in menu View. Airport and navaid links in aircraft progress tab. Logbook status and collected aircraft performance now kept between restarts.

macOS users: Keep in mind that you have to clear the quarantine flag when updating Little Xpconnect. See Clearing the Quarantine Flag on macOS.

The updated online user manual is available here: Little Navmap - User Manual.

See here for user manual downloads: User Manuals - Stable Releases.

A big thank you to all who reported bugs and issues!

Changes from 3.0.5 to 3.0.6

Flight Plan and Procedures

• Fixed wrong warning for runway mismatches in procedure search. Showed unneeded mismatch warning for runways without procedure. Example: KSTK.
• Fixed issue where SID/STAR could not be reloaded due to wrongly detected runway mismatch when using the MSFS scenery library. Example: EDDE ERNE1V EDDK/I14L could not load ERNE1V when loading the flight plan for MSFS.
• Flight plan name now updated in window title bar when using Save or Save as.
• Now correctly assigning ALL as runway designator to SID/STAR having no runway assignments in MSFS. Reload the scenery library if you use MSFS.
• Fixed issue where STAR could not be loaded from MSFS PLN file. Example: KIAD/30 ANJLL4.DNERO KLAX/06L.
• Fixed crash when modifying flight plan.

Flight Plan Route Description

• Fixed issue where STAR keyword was not generated from flight plan in route description. Now always adding generic SID/STAR keywords in export formats like the Rotate MD-80 .txt format to avoid issues when loading plan in FMC.
• Fixed issue with alternate airports having the same STAR as destination. Example: KVHN SSO SUNSS8 KDVT KPHX showed a wrong error message and used KPHX as destination.
• Fixes in route description where description MUHA EPMAR3 MAXIM SNDBR3 KMIA was not recognized
• Added Ctrl+Return shortcut to create flight plan from route description.
• Fixed issues where airways were not recognized. Example: KCNM WHOLE EWM J4 SUNSS8.SSO KDVT where J4 was added as a far off NDB.
• Fixed plan reset to VFR in route description. Flight plan type is now set from current flight plan type in window Flight Planning when clicking Load from Flight Plan.

Flight Plan Export

• Reverted change for degree sign ° vs. * in MSFS PLN flight plan files to avoid issues with third-party software not capable to read this MSFS compatible format.
• Added new multiexport format Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 format using "*" as degree sign for cases where the simulator or add-ons cannot deal with the ° sign.
• Removed obsolete annotated PLN export. Little Navmap can still read this format from old flight plans.

Map Display

• Added three add-on airport map display options to menu View and toolbar. See User Manual - View Menu - Airports.
  1. Add-on no override (Ctrl+Alt+O): Add-on airports are shown like normal airports.
  2. Add-on override zoom (Ctrl+Alt+Z): Add-on airports override zoom distance only but filters like Soft Surface can still be used to hide them.
  3. Add-on override zoom and filter (Ctrl+Alt+Y): Add-on airports override zoom distance and filters, i.e. are always shown. Filters like Soft Surface have no effect on add-on airports.
• Added airport filter preset Show only add-on airports in menu View and toolbar.
• Map theme shortcuts for included themes can now be defined in DGML file.
• Assigned shortcuts Ctrl+Alt+0 to Ctrl+Alt+7 for all default free included map themes. These do not change when adding additional themes.
• Fixed disappearing related navaids when drawing procedures. This happened when navaid was outside the bounding box of the flight plan.
• Added options for airport runway labels and taxiway label size on page Map Display in section Airports.

User Interface

• Replaced outdated airway types Victor and Jet with Low and High everywhere in the program.
• Fixed too small table cell height on Windows with the high DPI option switched off.
• Now also closing the startup image splash window in all dialog windows to avoid being hidden. As a result, the program looked like frozen since the hidden dialog window blocked input.
• Fix in Dutch shortcut translation ('Ctrl+D' vs. 'Ctrl+Down') which overlapped with other keys.
• More user interface improvements.
• Minimum number of trail points lowered to 1000.

Aircraft Progress

• Added map, information and procedure links in progress tab for destination airport, top of climb, top of descent, next waypoint and related navaids.
• Fixed wrong next waypoint indication when flying missed approach.

Logbook

• Logbook takeoff and landing detection is now kept for program restart.
• Improved logbook entry creation to avoid creating of unneeded entries. A flight can now be continued after program restart and logbook entry is updated accordingly.
• Now detecting off-airport takeoff and landing. Logbook entries get coordinates in degree/minute format as departure and landing position in this case.

Other

• Translations updated. Thanks to Flavio, Patrick and Ricardo!
• Updated user manual for new features and changes.
• The aircraft performance collection now keeps results on restart. Note that you have to restart the collection manually by clicking in menu Aircraft -> Restart Aircraft Performance Collection, the button in the window or File -> Reset all for a new Flight.
• Now adding backup log file abarthel-little_navmap.log.1 to issue and crash reports
• Added new X-Plane 12 VASI types APAPI_L and APAPI_R.
• Fixed issue where X-Plane airways had wrong type assigned. Example: EVMON to PAPAL airway Z8 was wrongly declared Jet. #1111
• Corrected VOR range for X-Plane data to use 130 NM for "unspecified but likely high power VOR".

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See the included CHANGELOG.txt or here online for a complete list across all versions.

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Direct Download

► Windows 64-bit Installer (MSFS and X-Plane) - LittleNavmap-win64-3.0.5-Install.exe ► macOS - LittleNavmap-macOS-3.0.5.zip ► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-22.04-3.0.5.tar.gz

Other Versions:

► Windows 32-bit Installer (only for FSX and P3D) - LittleNavmap-win32-3.0.5-Install.exe ► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04 for Debian or older systems) - LittleNavmap-linux-20.04-3.0.5.tar.gz

Zipped Windows releases without installer are available in the alternative download locations below or from the release assets at GitHub - Little Navmap Releases - Version 3.0.5 (scroll down to Assets).

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This is a hotfix for Little Navmap which fixes a problem loading MSFS flight plan files.

See Little Navmap 3.0.4 released or below for the full changelog from 2.8.12.

Changes from 3.0.4 to 3.0.5

• Hotfix to avoid error message Caught exception: Invalid lat/long format when loading the new MSFS PLN files with * as degree sign, as used since 3.0.4.
• Fixed missing navaids in tabs Airport -> Nearest and added missing links to navaids.

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Version 3.0.4

Notes

This is a stable release of Little Navmap which fixes several bugs and adds improvements as well as new features.

Notable changes: Direct to waypoint function, search refined and simplified, convert procedure to waypoints for editing, route description using runways and approaches, load and save aircraft trail as GPX, search in options dialog window, hints in options, wind in runway and procedure selection, install Little Xpconnect from menu Tools, crash and issue reports, colored aircraft trail and more.

Also update Little Navconnect and Little Xpconnect if you're using one of them. Little Navmap will show a notification dialog if you use an outdated version of Little Xpconnect. You can update and install Little Xpconnect from the menu Tools in Little Navmap now.

Little Navmap will show a reminder to reload the scenery library databases to get improvements.

macOS users: Keep in mind that you have to clear the quarantine flag when updating Little Xpconnect. See Clearing the Quarantine Flag on macOS.

The updated online user manual is available here: Little Navmap - User Manual.

See here for user manual downloads: User Manuals - Stable Releases.

A big thank you to all who reported bugs and issues!

Changes from 2.8.12 to 3.0.4

See below for changes from 3.0.3.rc1 to 3.0.4.

User Manual and FAQ

• Frequently asked questions updated.

• Revised the user manual. Added more tips, hints and screenshots.

• User manual is updated for all new functions. All help buttons and links point to the right chapters.

• Added sub-menu User Manual - Helpful Chapters with important help links in main menu.

• Removed offline PDF manual in program and installer. You can download the user manual in PDF and other formats from the page User Manuals. This page is also linked from the menu Help -> Download User Manuals.

Map Display and Map Context Menu

• Convert procedure to waypoints function
• Direct to here function
• Select leg in flight plan on click
• Map Display - New handling of file little_navmap_mapstyle.ini
• Map overlays explained

Flight Plan Route Description

• Improved route description now able to write and read runways and approaches

User Interface

• Web and internal links in dialog windows explained
• Copy and paste formatted text from all dialog windows

New Menu Items

• Search menu for quick access to airport, navaid and other search tabs
• Changed map display filter for add-on airports as requested by users
• Show or hide alternate airports
• Install or update Little Xpconnect from the Little Navmap menu
• Manually create an issue report menu item
• New menu items to show map cache and more
• Links to helpful user manual chapters

Aircraft Trail

• New chapter for user aircraft trail loading, saving and display options
• GPX exchange format (GPX) menu for load and export

Options

• Search in options dialog
• Hints in options dialog
• Option to toggle FreeType font engine

Changed Search

• Changed text search in airport and navaid search windows
• Changed search for hidden options and new suffixes
• Changed handling of runways to avoid error messages when adding procedures
• Showing preferred runways as well as head and cross winds in procedure search
• Search for approach idents

Other

• New departure leg option in traffic pattern
• Install the Little Xpconnect plugin from the tools menu
• New chapter for GLOBE installation
• Create a manual issue report
• Automatic crash report after improper shutdown

Translations

• Updated Italian translation by Flavio Borgna.
• Updated translation for Brazilian Portuguese by Ricardo Vitor.
• Updated French translation by Patrick.
• Updated German translation.

Flight Plan

• Added direct to function to all related context menus in flight plan table, map and search result table. This function is only enabled if you are connected to a simulator. You can select a direct to any waypoint ahead of the active leg, the destination airport or an alternate airport. Furthermore you can direct to any position, navaid or airport which are not a part of the flight plan. Using Direct to adds a waypoint PPOS (present position) at the aircraft location and a direct line to the clicked position.
• Added function to convert procedures into a list of waypoints. Right click on a procedure leg in the flight plan table or the map display and select Convert to Waypoints. A warning will be shown to indicate limitations of the conversion. After converting you can edit the procedure waypoints like any other flight plan waypoint list.
• Added preferred runway indication in departure and destination runway selection dialog window. This is based on the selection in menu Weather -> Airport Weather Source and shows the best runways for wind and the used weather source. Also showing head and crosswind for each runway in the selection table.
• Less important columns are now hidden in the flight plan table per default. You can bring these back in the flight plan table context menu item Flight Plan Table Display Options or in the main menu Tools -> Flight Plan Table Display Options.
• Added calibrated magnetic declination at a VOR or real magnetic declination at a waypoint to flight plan table. This is disabled per default. Enable it in main menu Tools -> Flight Plan Table Display Options
• Now checking altitude restrictions correctly against airways considering the climb and descent phase of a flight plan. Clearing airways in flight plan leg if they conflict with restrictions in climb or descent after flight plan calculation to avoid errors.
• Added button to dialog windows Select Departure Runway and Select Destination Runway to quickly jump to the procedure search tab showing departure or arrival and approach procedures.
• An invalid departure and/or destination airport is now allowed when loading a flight plan. The altitude at departure and destination points is only assigned if GLOBE elevation data is installed and active.
• Corrected wrong indications for flight plan having only one airport as is useful for pattern work. Fixed wrong departure indication. Now showing airport as destination as well as distance and time for single point plans.
• Removed wrong indentation in print and HTML flight plan. More cleanup in HTML export and printing. Made header smaller. #1054
• Moved distance and time section in flight plan header up to general data. Added underline as separator in flight plan table header below distance and time section.
• Now showing a warning message if the departure parking spot of a flight cannot be found after loading or switching simulator databases.
• User interaction fixes in flight plan table. Now avoiding unwanted centering of navaids due to follow selection while editing flight plan. Fixed cursor positioning when editing flight plan.
• Fixed issues with wrong error messages for runway mismatches. The logic is now more tolerant for airports where renamed runway numbers do not match exactly the runways in the navigation data due to magnetic drift.
• Now trying to find a cruise altitude which does not violate restrictions if it cannot be loaded from a flight plan or if the plan has an invalid cruise altitude. This applies to all plans which are loaded manually by an user. The change can be undone to revert to the previously invalid cruise altitude.
• Fixed issue where PLN, FMS or other imported flight plan files were wrongly overwritten in LNMPLN format in some cases.
• Now assigning runway automatically for STAR and approaches to avoid error messages about runway mismatches. This means that a selected STAR runway changes automatically to the one used by a newly selected approach if the STAR allows multiple runways. The runway of a multi-runway STAR will also be automatically selected for an approach runway already inserted avoiding the runway selection dialog. Error messages remain if a STAR does not allow runways for a selected approach or vice versa.
• Fixed issue where no departure runway could be selected if a plan consisted of only one airport. This can happen when starting to build a flight plan and left menu items in context menus disabled.
• Better transition detection now when importing MSFS PLN files. Using last STAR waypoint or last en-route waypoint to automatically find a matching approach transition.
• Fixed wrong distance calculation for procedure leg sequence intercept, initial fix and following legs. This resulted in wrong distance, time and ETA calculations as well as a wrong elevation profile. Example: EFVA via AXUTI and I16-Y.
• Added option to adjust text size for tab 'Flight Plan Remarks' in options on page Display and Text.
• Added text size option for flight plan table header text in options on page Display and Text.
• Replaced degree sign ° in MSFS flight plan export with * to avoid issues on computers with Asian locale.
• More usability improvements.

Flight Plan Route Description

• Now reading and optionally writing departure runway and approach procedure/runway to and from ATS strings. You can disable this in the dropdown menu button of the Flight Plan Route Description by selecting Write Runway and Approach instructions. Examples: EDDK/06 NVO1K NVO Q760 INLAR T853 LMA EDDL/LMA.I05R (approach ILS 05R via LMA) GCLA/36 TFS3T TFS GCTS/TES2.I07-Y (depart from runway 36 using SID TFS3T) and KSFO/01R DCT BAART R464 BITTA KAENA2 PHNL/BOOKE.R04L (approach RNAV 04L via BOOKE). This allows to share a complete flight plan by just using the route description.
• Logbook entries now use the detailed format including runways and approaches for route description.
• Moved less used menu items to sub-menu Advanced in drop down button menu in Flight Plan Route Description dialog window.
• Fixed route description to recognize a STAR which is equal to waypoint after an airway. Example: RJAA OOITA Y40 KAZMA RJFT resulted in No waypoint after airway Y40. KAZMA is STAR as well as a waypoint ending airway Y40. Now adding STAR to plan for these cases.
• Improved altitude correction after reading flight plan description without altitude designation. Now using lowest possible altitude depending on airway and procedure restrictions if present. Otherwise falls back to defaults for 10000 ft when using VFR or 20000 ft for IFR. Adjust in the flight plan table as needed.
• More fixes and improvements.

Flight Plan Export

• Added export, loading and appending of an aircraft track from and to a GPX file in main menu File -> GPX Exchange Format. GPX track is centered after loading if enabled in options on page Files.
• Moved GPX export to category Garmin in multiexport.
• Fixed wrong altitude in route section for GPX export. Now using calculated altitudes as shown in elevation profile. #1053
• Corrected export of .txt flight plans where STAR keyword was missing in some cases. This affected JarDesign and Rotate MD-80 aircraft.
• Added warning for invalid VFR flights plans when exporting a VFR plan to MSFS wrongly using airways and procedures.
• Fixed issue where export did not stop when answering No in warning dialog.
• Now prefixing one digit runway numbers with zero for X-Plane FMS export to avoid issues when loading into the GPS or FMS.
• Now writing field ICAOIdent for userpoints in FSX/P3D flight plan export to fix userpoint display in GPS.
• Fix for PLN flight plan export in MSFS where transitions were not loaded by the simulator due to a missing waypoint. Example: EDDV, using STAR NIE27 and approach NIE.I27RY or approach SAS.I27RZ. Same fix for loading without STAR.
• Fix for missing airport ident for waypoints in PLN flight plan export for FSX/P3D.

Procedures

• Added ARINC procedure type like I13R or R12 in brackets for approaches in the procedure search tree. The ARINC type and procedure ident can now be searched. DACNA (R06) will be found when entering DAC or R06, for example.
• Better indication for number of transitions in procedure search using clear text instead of the misleading T.
• Added preferred runway indication in procedure search top label based on selection in menu Weather -> Airport Weather Source. This shows the best runways for wind and the used weather source. Also showing head and crosswind components for approach procedures in procedure tree based on Airport Weather Source.
• Fixed issue where runway filters were missing in some cases in procedure search. Example: KIAD and runway 30 where the runway has only SID and STAR but no approaches.
• Corrected a problem where procedures could not be found in Navigraph database for airports that had moved. Examples are GAKL and DAUU in MSFS.
• Now considering airport ident when resolving procedure leg fixes to work around invalid duplicate waypoint names in a region. This is to avoid malformed procedures.
• Added warning message if procedure runways cannot be not found for simulator airport. This means that runways from navigation data do not match runways of the simulator airport data. You can update the navigation data or update or install an add-on airport to fix this. Procedures can still be used for such airports since Little Navmap uses a best guess to cross reference simulator runways. As a result you will see slightly differring runway numbers in portions of the program.

Map Display

• Option to use color or black and white gradients for aircraft trail indicating flown altitude. Enable this in options on page Map Aircraft Trail. The gradient is also used in the elevation profile and logbook trail preview. #97
• Added tooltips for aircraft trail and logbook trail preview. Enable this function in option on page Map Tooltips and Clicks.
• Trail points are now created dynamically depending on aircraft flight path to save trail points and get better map display performance. As a result, the trail points are not evenly spaced.
• Add-on airport display has changed and now adheres to airport filters instead of forcing an always-on display. Add-on filter now only overrides zoom settings and not filters. This means you can hide all add-on airports having a Soft Surface, for example.
• Added option to define distance of departure leg when adding airport traffic pattern.
• Fixed incorrect airport filter No procedure which omitted airports in some cases. Examples EDFQ, EDGS, EDME and EKSN with MSFS and Navigraph in mixed data mode. #1055
• Added function Select Leg in Flight Plan in map context menu More or for each click on a flight plan leg if enabled in options on page Map Tooltips and Clicks. This will highlight a flight plan leg in the table if you click on the waypoint in the map.
• Added option to hide alternate airports and related flight plan legs in menu View -> Show alternate Airports or on toolbar.
• ILS are now shown or hidden depending on related airport visibility as selected in the airport filter on the toolbar or in main menu View -> Airports to have less clutter on the map.
• Added new airspace styles by Michael Schuster. Thank you a lot for your help!
• Map colors and styles are embedded in the program. You can still add a file little_navmap_mapstyle.ini to the settings folder to override the default styles. Your current little_navmap_mapstyle.ini is automatically backed up on first start after updating Little Navmap.
• Fixed performance issues when drawing airway and other rotated text labels on Windows which resulted in jerky map movement with airways or ILS visible.
• Now disabling font anti-aliasing for all labels when moving map to get a smoother movement.
• Now using FreeType as font engine for better text labels and better performance on Windows. Rotated texts are better readable now. You can disable this in options on page Display and Text.
• Added airspace labels. Note that labels might still overlap. Disable the labels or limit airspace display to improve map display performance if you see jerky map movement.
• Airspace label options added to options dialog on page Map Labels in branch Airspaces.
• New option for airspace transparency and boundary line thickness on options page Map Display. These options are combined with styles in little_navmap_mapstyle.ini if this file is present.
• Added option for filtering out FBZ (flight buffer zone) and multiple code Z airspaces on page Map Display in section Airspaces. This is on per default and reduces clutter. #1047
• Added text size option for airspaces on options page Map Display section Airspaces.
• Fixed issue where large airspaces near anti-meridian disappeared.
• Improved placement of flight plan text labels to minimize overlap.
• Fixed missing COM on online center previews. #625
• Now drawing transparent surfaces in X-Plane as light gray for airports with wrong surface definitions.
• Colors for apron, runway and other surfaces can now be changed in little_navmap_mapstyle.ini. #1059
• Added length in NM and ft or Meters to measurement line tooltips.
• Improved labels on parking spots on the map. Now replacing known keywords like Gate and others with first word character like G 1 for Gate 11.
• Changed default map darkening when using style from menu Window -> Style -> Dark to a lighter value. You can adjust this in options on page Map in section Map Display Options.
• Fixed issue where internal cache was not cleaned when switching databases resulting in wrong nearest airport with procedure indications.
• Improved taxiway labels and increased number of labels.
• Better airspace matching for online airspaces. You can load the files firboundaries.json and traconboundaries.json into the Little Navmap user airspace library to get more real boundaries for VATSIM online centers instead of the generic circles. #490
• The empty airport display option is now disabled per default on new installations to avoid confusion with wrongly labeled 2D airports in X-Plane 12.
• Adjusted display of navaids for better visibility on dark maps like CARTO Dark Matter or Mapbox Dark.
• More map display improvements.

Map Display Themes

• Better error messages about map theme conflicts showing clickable links to files.
• Added new map theme Stadia StamenTerrain requiring an API key since StamenTerrain is discontinued. Delete the old StamenTerrain files in your map themes folder which can be seen in options on page Cache and Files or in the installation folder .../Little Navmap/data/maps/earth to avoid error messages when starting Little Navmap.
• Updated installer to remove the now unsupported StamenTerrain map theme on update to avoid error messages.
• Added a reject list for map themes. You will see a warning for broken and discontinued map themes. Uninstall these to silence the warning.
• Added MapBox Dark and MapBox Light map themes. Note that you need a free MapBox account and an API key to use these.

Elevation Profile

• Elevation profile settings are reset now and have to be re-adjusted.
• Now deleting aircraft trail in elevation profile on takeoff to avoid a cluttered profile display. This does not affect the trail on the map display which is independently stored.
• Added optional display of vertical speeds to elevation profile header. You can enable this in the profile context menu or in the main menu Tools -> Elevation Profile Display Options in branch Header Line.
• Fixed issue with wrong error message that kept the program from building the elevation profile. Example: Approach I29-Z via PLADE at MMGL.
• Missing PAPI in profile fixed when last procedure leg is a short circle-to-land. Example: EGPF via GOW and D23.
• Fixed inaccuracy where highlight point differed from center position and was sometimes hidden when using Follow on map in the elevation profile.

Information

• Better text formatting in airport runway and procedure information. Added separator line for runways and procedures.
• Made more important fields in aircraft progress bold and large for better visibility while flying: Heading, wind and pressure.
• Fixed issue where airports having procedures were not loaded properly in airport tab Nearest.

Options

• Added search function to options dialog on the top left. Search reduces the visible pages to the ones containing the search text. Matching labels and buttons are highlighted on each page.
• Reorganized options dialog and moved some options to new pages.
• Better error checking for theme path in options dialog to avoid accidental selection of the stock theme folder.
• Added hints prefixed with a light bulb in the options dialog pointing to other related settings. Some hints contain a link which directly opens the related page. Bold text is still an important note like Restart required.
• Extended minimum and maximum line widths and text sizes that can be set in options dialog for map features.
• Now removing leading and trailing white space from URLs in options to avoid issues with wrong user input. #1089
• New option to enable or disable the FreeType font engine on Windows on options on page Display and Text. Enabling this results in better and faster text display on the map, especially for rotated labels. But the text will appear slightly blurred throughout the whole application. Deselect this to avoid the blurred text in menus and application windows.

Search

• Added combined search field for airport idents and names (ICAO, FAA, city, name and others) using partial match for quick search. Separate search fields are still available. The same rules as mentioned in the point below apply.
• Completely reworked search functions for all search tabs. Now looking for partial text matches per default in all input fields instead of requiring stars as wildcards. This means that a search term of Chicago will find Gary Chicago as well as KORD. EDDE will find Erfurt-Weimar (EDDE) as well as Wedderburn. Stars * act as wildcards and double quotes " force an exact search. You can also enter a space separated list of names or idents and Little Navmap will show the results for each name.
• Search option fields selected from context menu using include/exclude are now opened automatically to avoid confusion. This applies to the Show in search function in the map context menu.
• Modified search fields hidden from the dropdown button menu (three-lines-button) are now ignored when searching.
• Now using better indications in the dropdown menu items. (changed) shows that an option is used and visible to the user. (changed, not used) indicates a changed option is ignored since the related fields are hidden from the dropdown menu button.
• Corrected broken sort order of numerical columns when using distance search #1060
• Fixed search to allow usage of underscore (_) and percent (%) as literals in search terms. Note that these are not used as wildcard characters like in SQL.
• Added option to preview the entries to be deleted when using the cleanup function in the userpoint and the logbook search.
• Fixed date and time stored in wrong format after editing a logbook entry. This resulted in a wrong sort order when sorting by time in the logbook table. Now storing local real time with timezone offset. Log data with wrong local real time and missing timezone is now corrected to current timezone offset. #1057
• Fixed crash that appeared when importing logbook entries or userpoints a second time.

Weather

• Now also searching for ICAO code instead of internal ident for METAR reports when using X-Plane to avoid missing airport weather reports.
• Now ignoring empty GRIB files from the X-Plane weather folder.

Scenery Library

• Additional scenery folder added in options on page Scenery Library Database is now read recursively for all simulators. This means that you can use sub-directories to organize your add-ons.
• Hints about encrypted airports and others can now be skipped (Do not show hints again ...) after loading a scenery library database.
• Now excluding all navaids in detected Navigraph update when reading scenery library of MSFS. This speeds up the loading time by skipping unused data.
• Fixed issues with moved or updated airports in MSFS when reading scenery library.
• Doubled number of airspace arc and circle segments for more display accuracy for all simulators.
• Fixed wrong calculation for airport rating which did not update add-on airports in some cases for MSFS, FSX and P3D.
• Deleting duplicate navaids now by region, ident and position. This allows to update frequency or type for VOR and NDB on P3D or FSX by add-on.
• Wrongly built MSFS airports like the Microsoft MKJS now keep their procedure information despite trying to override it with an empty procedure set. #1085
• Updated database version to 14.28. The version is shown in the dialog window Load Scenery Library as Database Version. The current version assigned by Little Navmap is shown as Program Version. Little Navmap will show a reminder to reload scenery library databases.
• The program now checks for obsolete database versions. You need at least a version later than 14.24 to avoid crashes. Little Navmap will show a notification dialog on startup where it offers to erase and reload the outdated database.
• Added new approach markings for XP12.
• Fixed wrong language settings used to load MSFS database on first startup. Now always using the language set in options by the user.

Navigraph Navdatabase

Note that these changes were first published in AIRAC cycle 2402 and need an updated Navigraph navdatabase.

• Runways marked as closed are now shown as such when using mode Use Navigraph for all Features.
• Airport patterns now correctly marked as not available.
• Runways having one end closed are now positioned correctly. This also resulted in misplaced departure procedures even when using Use Navigraph for Navaids and Procedures. Example: EDDF runway 18.
• Fixed issue where circular airspace arcs resulted in self crossing polygons and thus in wrong text placement.

User Interface

• Split toolbars into smaller sections and reorganized toolbar buttons for a more logical order. The smaller toolbars can now be better arranged to user needs. Note that the initial state after the update is not defined. You either have to re-arrange the toolbars manually or use the function in main menu Window -> Reset Window Layout to Default which also resets the toolbar layout to default.
• Added new main menu Search for quick access to most used search functions.
• Moved toolbars and dock window actions in menu Window to sub-menus.
• Now compacting status bar fields after timeout if the mouse cursor is not inside the map (no coordinate display).
• Fixed issue where not all toolbars were resized on macOS when changing size in options.
• Changed dock window menu items and tool buttons as well as shortcuts to have same order as dock windows clockwise.
• Updated all message dialogs to make text in dialog boxes selectable by mouse click and right-click context menu. Text can now copied and pasted from all message boxes. No need to make screenshots since text can simply be copied.
• Renamed user interface style Night to Dark.
• More improvements for user interface font changes, dark mode and style windowsvista.
• Fixed bug where cleanup did not work properly in logbook and left over logbook entries which could not be removed.
• Added menu item in Tools -> Files and Directories -> Show GLOBE Offline Elevation Data Installation to open the GLOBE installation folder.
• Added more clickable blue links for files and folders in information, warning or question dialog windows. These either open a file in the default program or open a file manager like Windows Explorer or Apple Finder showing the file or directory selected.
• Opening and selecting files in system file manager when clicking on links in dialogs. This is now working for Linux and macOS too.
• Assigned shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Shift+W to Reset Window Layout to Default to restore the main window if Little Navmap is hidden or off-screen after starting.

Crash and Issue Report

• Added functionality to automatically generate a crash report on startup. Little Navmap will show a notification dialog if it detects an improper shutdown of the last session, i.e. a crash. You can then choose to skip loading last used files such as the flight plan or window layout which may have caused the crash. A Zip file with all important settings and other files is created and can be shown by clicking the blue link in the dialog. Upload this file to a platform like FileTransfer.io and send me the link (Contact) so I can try to reproduce the issue. Note that there is no need to collect the log and other files for a bug report now. The files optionally skipped on loading are: Flight plan, aircraft performance, all search terms, information content, aircraft trail, window layout and KML files. No user files are modified or removed.
• You can create an issue report manually by selecting main menu Tools -> Create an Issue Report to get a Zip file containing all relevant files needed to reproduce a problem.

Other

• Fixed various issues when using Windows UNC paths (file share names like \\server\share\path).
• Windows installer now removes portable execution script Little Navmap Portable.cmd since this cannot be used with the installer. Download one of Zip archives of Little Navmap to use the portable mode.
• Enabled IPv6 for remote connections to Little Navconnect.
• Removed command line option -s (--settings-directory). Use -p (--settings-path) instead which uses either the full path or a path relative to the application executable.
• Fixed settings like high DPI mode not read when using command line options to relocate the settings folder like it is used in portable mode.

Web Server

• Enabled IPv6 for web server and added additional IPv6 addresses to display.
• Fixed additional map theme not used on web server map which was stuck to OpenStreetMap.
• Removed display of loopback or localhost devices in options on page Web Server which are not accessible from other computers on a local network. This is now added only if no other address was found, i.e. no network interfaces like Wi-Fi or Ethernet available.
• Fixed issues where the web server map reverted back to the Atlas map theme when using external map themes.
• Fixed a deadlock resulting in program freeze in HTTP server. This appeared when shutting down with parallel incoming web requests.
• Corrected excessive logging in HTTP server which could cause stutters in simulators.
• Document root folder change in options on page Web Server is now handled correctly.
• Better error checking and display for wrong document root folder in options on page Web Server.
• Fixed creating of unwanted registry entries in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\ABarthel\Little Navmap. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\ABarthel and all sub-keys are now removed when starting Little Navmap after updating.

X-Plane and Little Xpconnect

• Added installation option for Little Xpconnect from main menu Tools -> Install Little Xpconnect in X-Plane plugins. This can be used to install or update the X-Plane plugin from the installation folder. Note that the plugin will be installed in the currently selected X-Plane instance from menu Scenery Library. Additonally Little Navmap will scan for double and wrong installations of Little Xpconnect. Do not download the plugin manually. It is included in the Little Navmap download archive.
• Added version check for Little Xpconnect. Now showing a warning message if an outdated version of the plugin was found.

Linux

• Now safely catching termination signals on Linux. This avoids data loss due to unsaved files when terminating the program with Ctrl+C from the command line.
• Show in file manager function for blue links in Little Navmap now also works on Linux. This uses the DBUS protocol to start the default file manager and select a file in in.
• Little Navmap supports the Wayland compositor which is used on newer Linux distributions but you have to install the package qtwayland5.

Changes from 3.0.3.rc1 to 3.0.4

These are fixes for bugs introduced with the 3.0 versions.

• AI aircraft altitude now appears at higher zoom distance on the map.
• Corrected not translatable texts in runway dialog.
• Fixed issues in route description when opening from SimBrief. Now hiding advanced menu and adding runways to route description when opening dialog after download.
• Attempt to fix crashes on Windows shutdown with Little Navmap open.
• Fixed issue where a wrong crash report was triggered after identifying incompatible database.
• Now omitting IPv6 link local addresses in display in options on page Web Server.
• Reworked issue report to include up-to-date files now as well as flight plan as loaded in memory.
• Removed ILS de-duplication from X-Plane data compiler and adjusted it for MSFS, P3D and FSX.
• Fixed issue where procedures having runways not matching simulator runways resulted in a wrong runway warning. Example: SKBO in X-Plane 11/12 having 13L, 13R, 31L and 31R while latest navigation data (cycle 2402) refers to 14L, 14R, 32L and 32R. In December 2022 the runways at SKBO (Bogotá El Dorado International Airport) were renamed due to magnetic heading drift. This can occiasinally happen at airports.
• Changed application to catch Windows shutdown correctly. Now exiting program cleanly when shutting down Windows with Little Navmap running.

See the included CHANGELOG.txt or here online for a complete list across all versions.

All files are checked by VirusTotal.

Direct Download

► Windows 64-bit Installer (MSFS and X-Plane) - LittleNavmap-win64-3.0.4-Install.exe ► macOS - LittleNavmap-macOS-3.0.4.zip ► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-22.04-3.0.4.tar.gz

Other Versions:

► Windows 32-bit Installer (only for FSX and P3D) - LittleNavmap-win32-3.0.4-Install.exe ► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04 for Debian or older systems) - LittleNavmap-linux-20.04-3.0.4.tar.gz

Zipped Windows releases without installer are available in the alternative download locations below or from the release assets at GitHub - Little Navmap Releases - Version 3.0.4 (scroll down to Assets).

Alternative Download Locations - Look into sub-folders for beta, development or release candidates:

► Alternative Download Locations

Notes

This is a stable release of Little Navmap which fixes several bugs and adds improvements as well as new features.

Notable changes: Direct to waypoint function, search refined and simplified, convert procedure to waypoints for editing, route description using runways and approaches, load and save aircraft trail as GPX, search in options dialog window, hints in options, wind in runway and procedure selection, install Little Xpconnect from menu Tools, crash and issue reports, colored aircraft trail and more.

Also update Little Navconnect and Little Xpconnect if you're using one of them. Little Navmap will show a notification dialog if you use an outdated version of Little Xpconnect. You can update and install Little Xpconnect from the menu Tools in Little Navmap now.

Little Navmap will show a reminder to reload the scenery library databases to get improvements.

macOS users: Keep in mind that you have to clear the quarantine flag when updating Little Xpconnect. See Clearing the Quarantine Flag on macOS.

The updated online user manual is available here: Little Navmap - User Manual.

See here for user manual downloads: User Manuals - Stable Releases.

A big thank you to all who reported bugs and issues!

Changes from 2.8.12 to 3.0.4

See below for changes from 3.0.3.rc1 to 3.0.4.

User Manual and FAQ

• Frequently asked questions updated.

• Revised the user manual. Added more tips, hints and screenshots.

• User manual is updated for all new functions. All help buttons and links point to the right chapters.

• Added sub-menu User Manual - Helpful Chapters with important help links in main menu.

• Removed offline PDF manual in program and installer. You can download the user manual in PDF and other formats from the page User Manuals. This page is also linked from the menu Help -> Download User Manuals.

Map Display and Map Context Menu

• Convert procedure to waypoints function
• Direct to here function
• Select leg in flight plan on click
• Map Display - New handling of file little_navmap_mapstyle.ini
• Map overlays explained

Flight Plan Route Description

• Improved route description now able to write and read runways and approaches

User Interface

• Web and internal links in dialog windows explained
• Copy and paste formatted text from all dialog windows

New Menu Items

• Search menu for quick access to airport, navaid and other search tabs
• Changed map display filter for add-on airports as requested by users
• Show or hide alternate airports
• Install or update Little Xpconnect from the Little Navmap menu
• Manually create an issue report menu item
• New menu items to show map cache and more
• Links to helpful user manual chapters

Aircraft Trail

• New chapter for user aircraft trail loading, saving and display options
• GPX exchange format (GPX) menu for load and export

Options

• Search in options dialog
• Hints in options dialog
• Option to toggle FreeType font engine

Changed Search

• Changed text search in airport and navaid search windows
• Changed search for hidden options and new suffixes
• Changed handling of runways to avoid error messages when adding procedures
• Showing preferred runways as well as head and cross winds in procedure search
• Search for approach idents

Other

• New departure leg option in traffic pattern
• Install the Little Xpconnect plugin from the tools menu
• New chapter for GLOBE installation
• Create a manual issue report
• Automatic crash report after improper shutdown

Translations

• Updated Italian translation by Flavio Borgna.
• Updated translation for Brazilian Portuguese by Ricardo Vitor.
• Updated French translation by Patrick.
• Updated German translation.

Flight Plan

• Added direct to function to all related context menus in flight plan table, map and search result table. This function is only enabled if you are connected to a simulator. You can select a direct to any waypoint ahead of the active leg, the destination airport or an alternate airport. Furthermore you can direct to any position, navaid or airport which are not a part of the flight plan. Using Direct to adds a waypoint PPOS (present position) at the aircraft location and a direct line to the clicked position.
• Added function to convert procedures into a list of waypoints. Right click on a procedure leg in the flight plan table or the map display and select Convert to Waypoints. A warning will be shown to indicate limitations of the conversion. After converting you can edit the procedure waypoints like any other flight plan waypoint list.
• Added preferred runway indication in departure and destination runway selection dialog window. This is based on the selection in menu Weather -> Airport Weather Source and shows the best runways for wind and the used weather source. Also showing head and crosswind for each runway in the selection table.
• Less important columns are now hidden in the flight plan table per default. You can bring these back in the flight plan table context menu item Flight Plan Table Display Options or in the main menu Tools -> Flight Plan Table Display Options.
• Added calibrated magnetic declination at a VOR or real magnetic declination at a waypoint to flight plan table. This is disabled per default. Enable it in main menu Tools -> Flight Plan Table Display Options
• Now checking altitude restrictions correctly against airways considering the climb and descent phase of a flight plan. Clearing airways in flight plan leg if they conflict with restrictions in climb or descent after flight plan calculation to avoid errors.
• Added button to dialog windows Select Departure Runway and Select Destination Runway to quickly jump to the procedure search tab showing departure or arrival and approach procedures.
• An invalid departure and/or destination airport is now allowed when loading a flight plan. The altitude at departure and destination points is only assigned if GLOBE elevation data is installed and active.
• Corrected wrong indications for flight plan having only one airport as is useful for pattern work. Fixed wrong departure indication. Now showing airport as destination as well as distance and time for single point plans.
• Removed wrong indentation in print and HTML flight plan. More cleanup in HTML export and printing. Made header smaller. #1054
• Moved distance and time section in flight plan header up to general data. Added underline as separator in flight plan table header below distance and time section.
• Now showing a warning message if the departure parking spot of a flight cannot be found after loading or switching simulator databases.
• User interaction fixes in flight plan table. Now avoiding unwanted centering of navaids due to follow selection while editing flight plan. Fixed cursor positioning when editing flight plan.
• Fixed issues with wrong error messages for runway mismatches. The logic is now more tolerant for airports where renamed runway numbers do not match exactly the runways in the navigation data due to magnetic drift.
• Now trying to find a cruise altitude which does not violate restrictions if it cannot be loaded from a flight plan or if the plan has an invalid cruise altitude. This applies to all plans which are loaded manually by an user. The change can be undone to revert to the previously invalid cruise altitude.
• Fixed issue where PLN, FMS or other imported flight plan files were wrongly overwritten in LNMPLN format in some cases.
• Now assigning runway automatically for STAR and approaches to avoid error messages about runway mismatches. This means that a selected STAR runway changes automatically to the one used by a newly selected approach if the STAR allows multiple runways. The runway of a multi-runway STAR will also be automatically selected for an approach runway already inserted avoiding the runway selection dialog. Error messages remain if a STAR does not allow runways for a selected approach or vice versa.
• Fixed issue where no departure runway could be selected if a plan consisted of only one airport. This can happen when starting to build a flight plan and left menu items in context menus disabled.
• Better transition detection now when importing MSFS PLN files. Using last STAR waypoint or last en-route waypoint to automatically find a matching approach transition.
• Fixed wrong distance calculation for procedure leg sequence intercept, initial fix and following legs. This resulted in wrong distance, time and ETA calculations as well as a wrong elevation profile. Example: EFVA via AXUTI and I16-Y.
• Added option to adjust text size for tab 'Flight Plan Remarks' in options on page Display and Text.
• Added text size option for flight plan table header text in options on page Display and Text.
• Replaced degree sign ° in MSFS flight plan export with * to avoid issues on computers with Asian locale.
• More usability improvements.

Flight Plan Route Description

• Now reading and optionally writing departure runway and approach procedure/runway to and from ATS strings. You can disable this in the dropdown menu button of the Flight Plan Route Description by selecting Write Runway and Approach instructions. Examples: EDDK/06 NVO1K NVO Q760 INLAR T853 LMA EDDL/LMA.I05R (approach ILS 05R via LMA) GCLA/36 TFS3T TFS GCTS/TES2.I07-Y (depart from runway 36 using SID TFS3T) and KSFO/01R DCT BAART R464 BITTA KAENA2 PHNL/BOOKE.R04L (approach RNAV 04L via BOOKE). This allows to share a complete flight plan by just using the route description.
• Logbook entries now use the detailed format including runways and approaches for route description.
• Moved less used menu items to sub-menu Advanced in drop down button menu in Flight Plan Route Description dialog window.
• Fixed route description to recognize a STAR which is equal to waypoint after an airway. Example: RJAA OOITA Y40 KAZMA RJFT resulted in No waypoint after airway Y40. KAZMA is STAR as well as a waypoint ending airway Y40. Now adding STAR to plan for these cases.
• Improved altitude correction after reading flight plan description without altitude designation. Now using lowest possible altitude depending on airway and procedure restrictions if present. Otherwise falls back to defaults for 10000 ft when using VFR or 20000 ft for IFR. Adjust in the flight plan table as needed.
• More fixes and improvements.

Flight Plan Export

• Added export, loading and appending of an aircraft track from and to a GPX file in main menu File -> GPX Exchange Format. GPX track is centered after loading if enabled in options on page Files.
• Moved GPX export to category Garmin in multiexport.
• Fixed wrong altitude in route section for GPX export. Now using calculated altitudes as shown in elevation profile. #1053
• Corrected export of .txt flight plans where STAR keyword was missing in some cases. This affected JarDesign and Rotate MD-80 aircraft.
• Added warning for invalid VFR flights plans when exporting a VFR plan to MSFS wrongly using airways and procedures.
• Fixed issue where export did not stop when answering No in warning dialog.
• Now prefixing one digit runway numbers with zero for X-Plane FMS export to avoid issues when loading into the GPS or FMS.
• Now writing field ICAOIdent for userpoints in FSX/P3D flight plan export to fix userpoint display in GPS.
• Fix for PLN flight plan export in MSFS where transitions were not loaded by the simulator due to a missing waypoint. Example: EDDV, using STAR NIE27 and approach NIE.I27RY or approach SAS.I27RZ. Same fix for loading without STAR.
• Fix for missing airport ident for waypoints in PLN flight plan export for FSX/P3D.

Procedures

• Added ARINC procedure type like I13R or R12 in brackets for approaches in the procedure search tree. The ARINC type and procedure ident can now be searched. DACNA (R06) will be found when entering DAC or R06, for example.
• Better indication for number of transitions in procedure search using clear text instead of the misleading T.
• Added preferred runway indication in procedure search top label based on selection in menu Weather -> Airport Weather Source. This shows the best runways for wind and the used weather source. Also showing head and crosswind components for approach procedures in procedure tree based on Airport Weather Source.
• Fixed issue where runway filters were missing in some cases in procedure search. Example: KIAD and runway 30 where the runway has only SID and STAR but no approaches.
• Corrected a problem where procedures could not be found in Navigraph database for airports that had moved. Examples are GAKL and DAUU in MSFS.
• Now considering airport ident when resolving procedure leg fixes to work around invalid duplicate waypoint names in a region. This is to avoid malformed procedures.
• Added warning message if procedure runways cannot be not found for simulator airport. This means that runways from navigation data do not match runways of the simulator airport data. You can update the navigation data or update or install an add-on airport to fix this. Procedures can still be used for such airports since Little Navmap uses a best guess to cross reference simulator runways. As a result you will see slightly differring runway numbers in portions of the program.

Map Display

• Option to use color or black and white gradients for aircraft trail indicating flown altitude. Enable this in options on page Map Aircraft Trail. The gradient is also used in the elevation profile and logbook trail preview. #97
• Added tooltips for aircraft trail and logbook trail preview. Enable this function in option on page Map Tooltips and Clicks.
• Trail points are now created dynamically depending on aircraft flight path to save trail points and get better map display performance. As a result, the trail points are not evenly spaced.
• Add-on airport display has changed and now adheres to airport filters instead of forcing an always-on display. Add-on filter now only overrides zoom settings and not filters. This means you can hide all add-on airports having a Soft Surface, for example.
• Added option to define distance of departure leg when adding airport traffic pattern.
• Fixed incorrect airport filter No procedure which omitted airports in some cases. Examples EDFQ, EDGS, EDME and EKSN with MSFS and Navigraph in mixed data mode. #1055
• Added function Select Leg in Flight Plan in map context menu More or for each click on a flight plan leg if enabled in options on page Map Tooltips and Clicks. This will highlight a flight plan leg in the table if you click on the waypoint in the map.
• Added option to hide alternate airports and related flight plan legs in menu View -> Show alternate Airports or on toolbar.
• ILS are now shown or hidden depending on related airport visibility as selected in the airport filter on the toolbar or in main menu View -> Airports to have less clutter on the map.
• Added new airspace styles by Michael Schuster. Thank you a lot for your help!
• Map colors and styles are embedded in the program. You can still add a file little_navmap_mapstyle.ini to the settings folder to override the default styles. Your current little_navmap_mapstyle.ini is automatically backed up on first start after updating Little Navmap.
• Fixed performance issues when drawing airway and other rotated text labels on Windows which resulted in jerky map movement with airways or ILS visible.
• Now disabling font anti-aliasing for all labels when moving map to get a smoother movement.
• Now using FreeType as font engine for better text labels and better performance on Windows. Rotated texts are better readable now. You can disable this in options on page Display and Text.
• Added airspace labels. Note that labels might still overlap. Disable the labels or limit airspace display to improve map display performance if you see jerky map movement.
• Airspace label options added to options dialog on page Map Labels in branch Airspaces.
• New option for airspace transparency and boundary line thickness on options page Map Display. These options are combined with styles in little_navmap_mapstyle.ini if this file is present.
• Added option for filtering out FBZ (flight buffer zone) and multiple code Z airspaces on page Map Display in section Airspaces. This is on per default and reduces clutter. #1047
• Added text size option for airspaces on options page Map Display section Airspaces.
• Fixed issue where large airspaces near anti-meridian disappeared.
• Improved placement of flight plan text labels to minimize overlap.
• Fixed missing COM on online center previews. #625
• Now drawing transparent surfaces in X-Plane as light gray for airports with wrong surface definitions.
• Colors for apron, runway and other surfaces can now be changed in little_navmap_mapstyle.ini. #1059
• Added length in NM and ft or Meters to measurement line tooltips.
• Improved labels on parking spots on the map. Now replacing known keywords like Gate and others with first word character like G 1 for Gate 11.
• Changed default map darkening when using style from menu Window -> Style -> Dark to a lighter value. You can adjust this in options on page Map in section Map Display Options.
• Fixed issue where internal cache was not cleaned when switching databases resulting in wrong nearest airport with procedure indications.
• Improved taxiway labels and increased number of labels.
• Better airspace matching for online airspaces. You can load the files firboundaries.json and traconboundaries.json into the Little Navmap user airspace library to get more real boundaries for VATSIM online centers instead of the generic circles. #490
• The empty airport display option is now disabled per default on new installations to avoid confusion with wrongly labeled 2D airports in X-Plane 12.
• Adjusted display of navaids for better visibility on dark maps like CARTO Dark Matter or Mapbox Dark.
• More map display improvements.

Map Display Themes

• Better error messages about map theme conflicts showing clickable links to files.
• Added new map theme Stadia StamenTerrain requiring an API key since StamenTerrain is discontinued. Delete the old StamenTerrain files in your map themes folder which can be seen in options on page Cache and Files or in the installation folder .../Little Navmap/data/maps/earth to avoid error messages when starting Little Navmap.
• Updated installer to remove the now unsupported StamenTerrain map theme on update to avoid error messages.
• Added a reject list for map themes. You will see a warning for broken and discontinued map themes. Uninstall these to silence the warning.
• Added MapBox Dark and MapBox Light map themes. Note that you need a free MapBox account and an API key to use these.

Elevation Profile

• Elevation profile settings are reset now and have to be re-adjusted.
• Now deleting aircraft trail in elevation profile on takeoff to avoid a cluttered profile display. This does not affect the trail on the map display which is independently stored.
• Added optional display of vertical speeds to elevation profile header. You can enable this in the profile context menu or in the main menu Tools -> Elevation Profile Display Options in branch Header Line.
• Fixed issue with wrong error message that kept the program from building the elevation profile. Example: Approach I29-Z via PLADE at MMGL.
• Missing PAPI in profile fixed when last procedure leg is a short circle-to-land. Example: EGPF via GOW and D23.
• Fixed inaccuracy where highlight point differed from center position and was sometimes hidden when using Follow on map in the elevation profile.

Information

• Better text formatting in airport runway and procedure information. Added separator line for runways and procedures.
• Made more important fields in aircraft progress bold and large for better visibility while flying: Heading, wind and pressure.
• Fixed issue where airports having procedures were not loaded properly in airport tab Nearest.

Options

• Added search function to options dialog on the top left. Search reduces the visible pages to the ones containing the search text. Matching labels and buttons are highlighted on each page.
• Reorganized options dialog and moved some options to new pages.
• Better error checking for theme path in options dialog to avoid accidental selection of the stock theme folder.
• Added hints prefixed with a light bulb in the options dialog pointing to other related settings. Some hints contain a link which directly opens the related page. Bold text is still an important note like Restart required.
• Extended minimum and maximum line widths and text sizes that can be set in options dialog for map features.
• Now removing leading and trailing white space from URLs in options to avoid issues with wrong user input. #1089
• New option to enable or disable the FreeType font engine on Windows on options on page Display and Text. Enabling this results in better and faster text display on the map, especially for rotated labels. But the text will appear slightly blurred throughout the whole application. Deselect this to avoid the blurred text in menus and application windows.

Search

• Added combined search field for airport idents and names (ICAO, FAA, city, name and others) using partial match for quick search. Separate search fields are still available. The same rules as mentioned in the point below apply.
• Completely reworked search functions for all search tabs. Now looking for partial text matches per default in all input fields instead of requiring stars as wildcards. This means that a search term of Chicago will find Gary Chicago as well as KORD. EDDE will find Erfurt-Weimar (EDDE) as well as Wedderburn. Stars * act as wildcards and double quotes " force an exact search. You can also enter a space separated list of names or idents and Little Navmap will show the results for each name.
• Search option fields selected from context menu using include/exclude are now opened automatically to avoid confusion. This applies to the Show in search function in the map context menu.
• Modified search fields hidden from the dropdown button menu (three-lines-button) are now ignored when searching.
• Now using better indications in the dropdown menu items. (changed) shows that an option is used and visible to the user. (changed, not used) indicates a changed option is ignored since the related fields are hidden from the dropdown menu button.
• Corrected broken sort order of numerical columns when using distance search #1060
• Fixed search to allow usage of underscore (_) and percent (%) as literals in search terms. Note that these are not used as wildcard characters like in SQL.
• Added option to preview the entries to be deleted when using the cleanup function in the userpoint and the logbook search.
• Fixed date and time stored in wrong format after editing a logbook entry. This resulted in a wrong sort order when sorting by time in the logbook table. Now storing local real time with timezone offset. Log data with wrong local real time and missing timezone is now corrected to current timezone offset. #1057
• Fixed crash that appeared when importing logbook entries or userpoints a second time.

Weather

• Now also searching for ICAO code instead of internal ident for METAR reports when using X-Plane to avoid missing airport weather reports.
• Now ignoring empty GRIB files from the X-Plane weather folder.

Scenery Library

• Additional scenery folder added in options on page Scenery Library Database is now read recursively for all simulators. This means that you can use sub-directories to organize your add-ons.
• Hints about encrypted airports and others can now be skipped (Do not show hints again ...) after loading a scenery library database.
• Now excluding all navaids in detected Navigraph update when reading scenery library of MSFS. This speeds up the loading time by skipping unused data.
• Fixed issues with moved or updated airports in MSFS when reading scenery library.
• Doubled number of airspace arc and circle segments for more display accuracy for all simulators.
• Fixed wrong calculation for airport rating which did not update add-on airports in some cases for MSFS, FSX and P3D.
• Deleting duplicate navaids now by region, ident and position. This allows to update frequency or type for VOR and NDB on P3D or FSX by add-on.
• Wrongly built MSFS airports like the Microsoft MKJS now keep their procedure information despite trying to override it with an empty procedure set. #1085
• Updated database version to 14.28. The version is shown in the dialog window Load Scenery Library as Database Version. The current version assigned by Little Navmap is shown as Program Version. Little Navmap will show a reminder to reload scenery library databases.
• The program now checks for obsolete database versions. You need at least a version later than 14.24 to avoid crashes. Little Navmap will show a notification dialog on startup where it offers to erase and reload the outdated database.
• Added new approach markings for XP12.
• Fixed wrong language settings used to load MSFS database on first startup. Now always using the language set in options by the user.

Navigraph Navdatabase

Note that these changes were first published in AIRAC cycle 2402 and need an updated Navigraph navdatabase.

• Runways marked as closed are now shown as such when using mode Use Navigraph for all Features.
• Airport patterns now correctly marked as not available.
• Runways having one end closed are now positioned correctly. This also resulted in misplaced departure procedures even when using Use Navigraph for Navaids and Procedures. Example: EDDF runway 18.
• Fixed issue where circular airspace arcs resulted in self crossing polygons and thus in wrong text placement.

User Interface

• Split toolbars into smaller sections and reorganized toolbar buttons for a more logical order. The smaller toolbars can now be better arranged to user needs. Note that the initial state after the update is not defined. You either have to re-arrange the toolbars manually or use the function in main menu Window -> Reset Window Layout to Default which also resets the toolbar layout to default.
• Added new main menu Search for quick access to most used search functions.
• Moved toolbars and dock window actions in menu Window to sub-menus.
• Now compacting status bar fields after timeout if the mouse cursor is not inside the map (no coordinate display).
• Fixed issue where not all toolbars were resized on macOS when changing size in options.
• Changed dock window menu items and tool buttons as well as shortcuts to have same order as dock windows clockwise.
• Updated all message dialogs to make text in dialog boxes selectable by mouse click and right-click context menu. Text can now copied and pasted from all message boxes. No need to make screenshots since text can simply be copied.
• Renamed user interface style Night to Dark.
• More improvements for user interface font changes, dark mode and style windowsvista.
• Fixed bug where cleanup did not work properly in logbook and left over logbook entries which could not be removed.
• Added menu item in Tools -> Files and Directories -> Show GLOBE Offline Elevation Data Installation to open the GLOBE installation folder.
• Added more clickable blue links for files and folders in information, warning or question dialog windows. These either open a file in the default program or open a file manager like Windows Explorer or Apple Finder showing the file or directory selected.
• Opening and selecting files in system file manager when clicking on links in dialogs. This is now working for Linux and macOS too.
• Assigned shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Shift+W to Reset Window Layout to Default to restore the main window if Little Navmap is hidden or off-screen after starting.

Crash and Issue Report

• Added functionality to automatically generate a crash report on startup. Little Navmap will show a notification dialog if it detects an improper shutdown of the last session, i.e. a crash. You can then choose to skip loading last used files such as the flight plan or window layout which may have caused the crash. A Zip file with all important settings and other files is created and can be shown by clicking the blue link in the dialog. Upload this file to a platform like FileTransfer.io and send me the link (Contact) so I can try to reproduce the issue. Note that there is no need to collect the log and other files for a bug report now. The files optionally skipped on loading are: Flight plan, aircraft performance, all search terms, information content, aircraft trail, window layout and KML files. No user files are modified or removed.
• You can create an issue report manually by selecting main menu Tools -> Create an Issue Report to get a Zip file containing all relevant files needed to reproduce a problem.

Other

• Fixed various issues when using Windows UNC paths (file share names like \\server\share\path).
• Windows installer now removes portable execution script Little Navmap Portable.cmd since this cannot be used with the installer. Download one of Zip archives of Little Navmap to use the portable mode.
• Enabled IPv6 for remote connections to Little Navconnect.
• Removed command line option -s (--settings-directory). Use -p (--settings-path) instead which uses either the full path or a path relative to the application executable.
• Fixed settings like high DPI mode not read when using command line options to relocate the settings folder like it is used in portable mode.

Web Server

• Enabled IPv6 for web server and added additional IPv6 addresses to display.
• Fixed additional map theme not used on web server map which was stuck to OpenStreetMap.
• Removed display of loopback or localhost devices in options on page Web Server which are not accessible from other computers on a local network. This is now added only if no other address was found, i.e. no network interfaces like Wi-Fi or Ethernet available.
• Fixed issues where the web server map reverted back to the Atlas map theme when using external map themes.
• Fixed a deadlock resulting in program freeze in HTTP server. This appeared when shutting down with parallel incoming web requests.
• Corrected excessive logging in HTTP server which could cause stutters in simulators.
• Document root folder change in options on page Web Server is now handled correctly.
• Better error checking and display for wrong document root folder in options on page Web Server.
• Fixed creating of unwanted registry entries in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\ABarthel\Little Navmap. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\ABarthel and all sub-keys are now removed when starting Little Navmap after updating.

X-Plane and Little Xpconnect

• Added installation option for Little Xpconnect from main menu Tools -> Install Little Xpconnect in X-Plane plugins. This can be used to install or update the X-Plane plugin from the installation folder. Note that the plugin will be installed in the currently selected X-Plane instance from menu Scenery Library. Additonally Little Navmap will scan for double and wrong installations of Little Xpconnect. Do not download the plugin manually. It is included in the Little Navmap download archive.
• Added version check for Little Xpconnect. Now showing a warning message if an outdated version of the plugin was found.

Linux

• Now safely catching termination signals on Linux. This avoids data loss due to unsaved files when terminating the program with Ctrl+C from the command line.
• Show in file manager function for blue links in Little Navmap now also works on Linux. This uses the DBUS protocol to start the default file manager and select a file in in.
• Little Navmap supports the Wayland compositor which is used on newer Linux distributions but you have to install the package qtwayland5.

Changes from 3.0.3.rc1 to 3.0.4

These are fixes for bugs introduced with the 3.0 versions.

• AI aircraft altitude now appears at higher zoom distance on the map.
• Corrected not translatable texts in runway dialog.
• Fixed issues in route description when opening from SimBrief. Now hiding advanced menu and adding runways to route description when opening dialog after download.
• Attempt to fix crashes on Windows shutdown with Little Navmap open.
• Fixed issue where a wrong crash report was triggered after identifying incompatible database.
• Now omitting IPv6 link local addresses in display in options on page Web Server.
• Reworked issue report to include up-to-date files now as well as flight plan as loaded in memory.
• Removed ILS de-duplication from X-Plane data compiler and adjusted it for MSFS, P3D and FSX.
• Fixed issue where procedures having runways not matching simulator runways resulted in a wrong runway warning. Example: SKBO in X-Plane 11/12 having 13L, 13R, 31L and 31R while latest navigation data (cycle 2402) refers to 14L, 14R, 32L and 32R. In December 2022 the runways at SKBO (Bogotá El Dorado International Airport) were renamed due to magnetic heading drift. This can occiasinally happen at airports.
• Changed application to catch Windows shutdown correctly. Now exiting program cleanly when shutting down Windows with Little Navmap running.

See the included CHANGELOG.txt or here online for a complete list across all versions.

All files are checked by VirusTotal.

Direct Download

► Windows 64-bit Installer (MSFS and X-Plane) - LittleNavmap-win64-3.0.3.rc1-Install.exe ► macOS - LittleNavmap-macOS-3.0.3.rc1.zip ► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-22.04-3.0.3.rc1.tar.gz

Other Versions:

► Windows 32-bit Installer (only for FSX and P3D) - LittleNavmap-win32-3.0.3.rc1-Install.exe ► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04 for Debian or older systems) - LittleNavmap-linux-20.04-3.0.3.rc1.tar.gz

Zipped Windows releases without installer are available in the alternative download locations below or from the release assets at GitHub - Little Navmap Releases - Version 3.0.3.rc1 (scroll down to Assets).

Alternative Download Locations - Look into sub-folders for beta, development or release candidates:

► Alternative Download Locations

This is a beta/test release of Little Navmap which adds new features, user interface improvements and fixes bugs.

Note that the program translations and the user manual have not been updated yet.

See here if you would like to run the beta release besides your stable installation: Little Navmap - User Manual - Portable Execution.

Also update Little Navconnect and Little Xpconnect if you're using one of these. Little Navmap will show a notification dialog if you use an outdated version of Little Xpconnect. You can update and install Litte Xpconnect from the menu Tools in Little Navmap now.

macOS users: Keep in mind that you have to clear the quarantine flag when updating Little Xpconnect. See Little Navmap - User Manual - Clearing the Quarantine Flag on macOS.

If you think the overall appearance of fonts in Little Navmap on Windows is blurry: See options on page Display and Text and deselect Use FreeType font engine on Windows. Keep in mind that this will revert map display and performance improvements.

A big Thank You! to all who reported bugs and issues.

Version 3.0.3.rc1

Changes from 3.0.2.beta to 3.0.3.rc1

User Manual

Map Display and Map Context Menu

• Convert procedure to waypoints function
• Direct to here function
• Map overlays
• Select leg in flight plan on click
• Map Display - New handling of file little_navmap_mapstyle.ini

Flight Plan Route Description

• Improved route description now able to use runways and approaches

User Interface

• Web and internal links in dialog windows explained
• Copy and paste formatted text from all dialog windows

New Menu Items

• Search menu for quick access
• Changed map display filter for add-on airports as requested by users
• Show or hide alternate airports
• Automatic installation of Little Xpconnect menu item
• Manually create an issue report menu item
• New menu items to show map cache and more
• Links to helpful user manual chapters

Aircraft Trail

• New chapter for user aircraft trail loading, saving and display options
• GPX exchange format (GPX) menu for load and export

Options

• Search in options dialog
• Hints in options dialog
• Option to toggle Freetype font engine

Changed Search

• Changed text search in airport and navaid search windows
• Changed search for hidden options and new suffixes
• Changed handling of runways to avoid error messages when adding procedures
• Showing preferred runways as well as head and cross winds in procedure search
• Search for approach idents

Other

• New departure leg option in traffic pattern
• Install the Little Xpconnect plugin from the tools menu
• New chapter for GLOBE installation
• Create a manual issue report
• Automatic crash report after improper shutdown

General

• Fixed several issues with flight plan labels when crossing the anti-meridian.
• Now removing leading and trailing white space from URLs in options to avoid issues with wrong user input. #1089
• Improved altitude correction after reading flight plan description without altitude designation. Now using lowest possible altitude depending on airway and procedure restrictions if present. Otherwise falls back to defaults for 10000 ft when using VFR or 20000 ft for IFR. Adjust in the flight plan table as needed.
• Missing PAPI in profile fixed when last procedure leg is short circle-to-land. Example: EGPF via GOW and D23.
• Fixed turn indicator curve at low aircraft speeds and small turn radii.
• Added text size option for flight plan table header text in options on page Display and Text.
• Fixed aircraft index flooding log with messages when loading MSFS aircraft files to get ICAO type. Now avoiding re-reading if aircraft files are not available.
• Now writing ICAOIdent field for userpoints in FSX/P3D flight plan export to fix userpoint display in GPS.
• Removed log flooding with messages when adding points to aircraft trail while flying.
• Adding More sub-menus in menu View -> Userpoints to avoid overflow on screen when using many custom userpoint icons.
• Fixed wrong distance calculation for procedure leg sequence intercept, intitial fix and following legs. This resulted in wrong distance, time and ETA calculations as well as a wrong elevation profile. Example: EFVA via AXUTI and I16-Y.
• Windows installer now removes portable execution script Little Navmap Portable.cmd since this cannot be used with the installer. Download one of Zip archives of Little Navmap to use the portable mode.
• Removed offline PDF manual in program and installer. You can download the user manual in PDF and other formats from the page User Manuals.
• Now ignoring empty GRIB files from the X-Plane weather folder. Replaced error dialog window with warning message in log.
• Moved option to enable or disable the Freetype font engine on Windows into options on page Display and Text. Enabling this option results in better and faster text display on the map, especially for rotated labels. But the text will appear slightly blurred throughout the whole application. Deselect this to avoid the slightly blurred text in menus and application windows.
• More fixes in PLN flight plan export for MSFS where transitions were not loaded by MSFS due to a missing waypoint. This case without a STAR. Example: EDDV, using approach NIE.I27RY or approach SAS.I27RZ both without STAR.

See the included CHANGELOG.txt or here online for a complete list across all versions.

Direct Download

► Windows 64-bit Installer (MSFS and X-Plane) - LittleNavmap-win64-3.0.2.beta-Install.exe ► macOS - LittleNavmap-macOS-3.0.2.beta.zip ► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-22.04-3.0.2.beta.tar.gz

Other Versions:

► Windows 32-bit Installer (only for FSX and P3D) - LittleNavmap-win32-3.0.2.beta-Install.exe ► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04 for Debian or older systems) - LittleNavmap-linux-20.04-3.0.2.beta.tar.gz

Zipped Windows releases without installer are available in the alternative download locations below or from the release assets at GitHub - Little Navmap Releases - Version 3.0.2.beta (scroll down to Assets).

Alternative Download Locations - Look into sub-folders for beta, development or release candidates:

► Dropbox / Mega.nz

Notes

This is a beta/test release of Little Navmap which adds new features, user interface improvements and fixes bugs.

Note that the program translations and the user manual have not been updated yet.

See here if you would like to run the beta release besides your stable installation: Little Navmap - User Manual - Portable Execution.

Also update Little Navconnect and Little Xpconnect if you're using one of these. Little Navmap will show a notification dialog if you use an outdated version of Little Xpconnect. You can still continue to use it, though.

macOS users: Keep in mind that you have to clear the quarantine flag when updating Little Xpconnect. See Little Navmap - User Manual - Clearing the Quarantine Flag on macOS.

If you think the overall appearance of fonts in Little Navmap on Windows is blurry: Remove the file qt.conf in the Little Navmap installation folder. Keep in mind that this will revert map display and performance improvements.

A big thank you to all who reported bugs and issues!

Changes from 3.0.1.beta to 3.0.2.beta

Flight Plan and Export

• Now assigning runway automatically for STAR and approaches to avoid error messages about runway mismatches. This means that a selected STAR runway changes automatically to the one used by a newly selected approach if the STAR allows multiple runways. The runway of a multi-runway STAR will also be automatically selected for an approach runway already inserted avoiding the runway selection dialog.
• Fix for PLN flight plan export in MSFS where transitions were not loaded by MSFS due to a missing waypoint. Example: EDDV, using STAR NIE27 and approach NIE.I27RY or approach SAS.I27RZ.
• Fixed issue where no departure runway could be selected if a plan consisted of only one airport. This can happen when starting to build a flight plan and left menu items in context menus disabled.
• Corrected wrong warning about VFR when exporting a PLN flight plan for MSFS. This appeared when using a departure or destination runway selection.
• Better transition detection now when importing MSFS PLN files. Using last STAR waypoint or last en-route waypoint to automatically find a matching approach transition.
• Fixed issue where runway filters were missing in some cases in procedure search. Example: KIAD and 15L where the runway has only SID and STAR but no approaches.
• Fixed route description to recognize a STAR which is equal to waypoint after an airway. Example: RJAA OOITA Y40 KAZMA RJFT resulted in No waypoint after airway Y40. KAZMA is STAR as well as a waypoint ending airway Y40. Now adding STAR to plan for these cases.
• Now generating correct route description for single digit runway. Example: KYKM runway 9 to 'KYKM/09'.
• Fixed wrong error message about parking not found after deleting or replacing departure airport.

Map Display

• Added a reject list for map themes. You will see a warning for broken and discontinued map themes. Uninstall these to silence the warning.
• Better error checking for theme path in options dialog to avoid accidental selection of the stock theme folder.
• Updated installer to remove the now unsupported StamenTerrain map theme on update to avoid error messages.
• Added MapBox Dark and Light map themes. Note that you need a free MapBox account and an API key to use these.
• Map themes MapBox Outdoors and Satellite Streets updated to latest MapBox theme address.
• Added option for filtering out FBZ (flight buffer zone) airspaces on page Map Display in section Airspaces. This is on per default and reduces clutter when showing airspaces.
• Better airspace matching for online airspaces. You can load the files firboundaries.json and traconboundaries.json into the Little Navmap user airspace library to get more real boundaries for VATSIM online centers instead of the generic circles. #490
• Removed drawing of empty white rectangle on map on startup. Now showing background map like the OpenStreetMap first.
• Adjusted display of navaids for better visibility on dark maps like CARTO Dark Matter or Mapbox Dark.
• The empty airport display option is now disabled per default on new installations to avoid confusion also with wrongly labeled 2D airports in X-Plane 12.
• Fixes for airspace altitude display in information and in map.
• Adjusted aircraft trail recording to generate more accurate points when flying slow aircraft.
• Other small improvements in map display.

User Interface

• Added installation option for Little Xpconnect from main menu Tools -> Install Little Xpconnect in X-Plane plugins. This can be used to install or update the X-Plane plugin from the installation folder. Note that the plugin will be installed in the currently selected X-Plane instance from menu Scenery Library. Do not download the plugin manually. It is included in the Little Navmap download archive.
  • Renamed user interface style Night to Dark.
• Improved text and icon display for the user interface style Dark.
• Added option to adjust text size for tab 'Flight Plan Remarks' in options on page Display and Text.
• Fixed bug where cleanup did not work properly in logbook and left over logbook entries which could not be removed.
• Changed application to catch Windows shutdown which resulted in wrong crash reports. Now exiting program cleanly when shutting down Windows with Little Navmap running.
• Now safely catching termination signals on Linux. This avoids data loss due to unsaved files when terminating with Ctrl+C from the command line.
• Now resizing connection and load scenery dialogs to avoid cut off content. Saving size now.
• Added menu item in Tools -> Files and Directories -> Show GLOBE Offline Elevation Data Installation Directory to open the GLOBE installation folder.
• Added more clickable blue links for files and folders in information, warning or question dialog windows.
• Now opening and selecting files in system file manager when clicking on links in dialogs. This is working now for Linux and macOS too.

Web Server

• Fixed a deadlock resulting in program freeze in HTTP server. This appeared when shutting down with parallel incoming web requests.
• Updated internal HTTP server by Stefan Frings to latest version from 1.9.0.
• Corrected excessive logging in HTTP server which can cause stutters.

Scenery Library

• MSFS: Fixed issues with moved or updated airports when reading scenery library.
• Doubled number of airspace arc and circle segments for more accuracy.
• Fixed wrong calculation for airport rating which did not update add-on airports in some cases for MSFS, FSX and P3D.
• Deleting duplicate navaids now by region, ident and position. This allows to update frequency or type for VOR and NDB on P3D or FSX by add-on.
• Wrongly built airports like the MS MKJS now keep their procedure information in MSFS despite trying to override it with an empty procedure set. #1085

Navigraph Navdatabase

Note that these changes will be deployed in a future cycle (most likely 2402) and need an updated Navigraph navdatabase.

• Runways marked as closed are now shown as such when using mode Use Navigraph for all Features.
• Airport patterns now correctly marked as not available.
• Runways having one end closed are now positioned correctly. This also resulted in misplaced departure procedures. Example: EDDF runway 18.
• Fixed issue where circular airspace arcs resulted in self crossing polygons and wrong text placement.

See the included CHANGELOG.txt or here online for a complete list across all versions.

All files are checked by VirusTotal.

Direct Download

► Windows 64-bit Installer (MSFS and X-Plane) - LittleNavmap-win64-3.0.1.beta-Install.exe ► macOS - LittleNavmap-macOS-3.0.1.beta.zip ► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-22.04-3.0.1.beta.tar.gz

Other Versions:

► Windows 32-bit Installer (only for FSX and P3D) - LittleNavmap-win32-3.0.1.beta-Install.exe ► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04 for Debian or older systems) - LittleNavmap-linux-20.04-3.0.1.beta.tar.gz

Zipped Windows releases without installer are available in the alternative download locations below or from the release assets at GitHub - Little Navmap Releases - Version 3.0.1.beta (scroll down to Assets).

Alternative Download Locations - Look into sub-folders for beta, development or release candidates:

► Dropbox / Mega.nz

Version 3.0.1.beta

Notes

This is a beta/test release of Little Navmap which adds new features, user interface improvements and fixes bugs.

Note that the program translations and the user manual have not been updated yet.

Toolbar layout has changed. See below in section "User Interface" for more information.

See here if you would like to run the beta release besides your stable installation: Little Navmap - User Manual - Portable Execution.

Also update Little Navconnect and Little Xpconnect if you're using one of these. Little Navmap will show a notification dialog if you use an outdated version of Little Xpconnect. You can still continue to use it, though.

macOS users: Keep in mind that you have to clear the quarantine flag when updating Little Xpconnect. See Little Navmap - User Manual - Clearing the Quarantine Flag on macOS.

Note that the font handling has changed. You probably have to adapt font sizes in the information display, the map display and the rest of the application.

A big thank you to all who reported bugs and issues!

Changes from 3.0.0.beta to 3.0.1.beta

• Fixed issues where web-server map reverted back to Atlas map themes when using external map themes like Google.
• Fix for missing map updates when using touchpad for zooming.
• Fixed map drawing since it may cause frozen screens or missing updates on some systems.
• Fixed blank map screen in macOS after click.
• Fixed crash when zooming out with airspace highlights visible.
• More internal fixes for potential crashes when accessing empty lists.
• Improved taxiway labels and increased number of labels.
• Adjusted airspace boundaries and made lines thinner for some types.
• Fixed issues with wrong error messages with runway mismatches. The logic is now more tolerant for airports where renamed runway numbers do not match exactly the runways in the navigation data.
• Fixed route string reader which did not recognize approach for short plans. Example: MMBT MMGL/PLADE.I29-Z
• Corrected a problem where procedures could not be found in Navigraph database for airports that had moved. Examples are GAKL and DAUU in MSFS.
• Fixed issue with wrong error message that kept the program from building the elevation profile. Example: Approach I29-Z via PLADE at MMGL.
• Changed dock window menu items and tool buttons to have same order as docks.
• First draft of German translation.
• More small fixes and text changes.
• Now trying to find a cruise altitude which does not violate restrictions if it cannot be loaded from a flight plan or if the plan has an invalid cruise altitude. This applies to all plans which are loaded manually by a user. The change is now stored in the undo/redo stack and can be undone to revert to the previously invalid cruise altitude.
• Fixed issue wher PLN, FMS or other imported flight plan files were wrongly overwritten in LNMPLN format in some cases.
• Updated all message dialogs to make text in dialog boxes selectable by mouse click and right-click context menu. Text can now copied and pasted from all message boxes. No need to make screenshots.
• All message box messages are now logged.
• Fixed large font in tables on macOS.
• Fix for excessive warnings in HTTP server flooding the log.
• Updated Italian translation by Flavio Borgna.

🎉🎉🎉 A Happy New Year to all of you! 🎉🎉🎉

See the included CHANGELOG.txt or here online for a complete list across all versions.

All files are checked by VirusTotal.

Direct Download

► Windows 64-bit Installer (MSFS and X-Plane) - LittleNavmap-win64-3.0.0.beta-Install.exe ► macOS - LittleNavmap-macOS-3.0.0.beta.zip ► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-22.04-3.0.0.beta.tar.gz

Other Versions:

► Windows 32-bit Installer (only for FSX and P3D) - LittleNavmap-win32-3.0.0.beta-Install.exe ► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04 for Debian or older systems) - LittleNavmap-linux-20.04-3.0.0.beta.tar.gz

Zipped Windows releases without installer are available in the alternative download locations below or from the release assets at GitHub - Little Navmap Releases - Version 3.0.0.beta (scroll down to Assets).

Alternative Download Locations - Look into sub-folders for beta, development or release candidates:

► Box / Dropbox / Mega.nz

Notes

This is a beta/test release of Little Navmap which adds new features, user interface improvements and fixes bugs.

Note that the program translations and the user manual have not been updated yet.

Toolbar layout has changed. See below in section "User Interface" for more information.

See here if you would like to run the beta release besides your stable installation: Little Navmap - User Manual - Portable Execution.

Also update Little Navconnect and Little Xpconnect if you're using one of these. Little Navmap will show a notification dialog if you use an outdated version of Little Xpconnect. You can still continue to use it, though.

macOS users: Keep in mind that you have to clear the quarantine flag when updating Little Xpconnect. See Little Navmap - User Manual - Clearing the Quarantine Flag on macOS.

Note that the font handling has changed. You probably have to adapt font sizes in the information display, the map display and the rest of the application.

A big thank you to all who reported bugs and issues!

🎁🎁🎁 🎄🎄🎄 Happy Holidays to all of you! 🎄🎄🎄 🎁🎁🎁

Changes from 2.8.12 to 3.0.0.beta

Crash and Issue Report

• Added functionality to automatically generate a crash report on startup. Little Navmap will show a notification dialog if it detects an improper shutdown of the last session, i.e. a crash. You can then choose to skip loading last used files such as the flightplan or window layout that may have caused the crash. A Zip file with all important settings and other files is created and can be shown by clicking the blue link in the dialog. Upload this file to a platform like FileTransfer.io and send me the link so I can try to reproduce the issue. Note that there is no need to collect the log and other files for a bug report now. The files optionally skipped on loading are: Flight plan, aircraft performance, all search terms, information content, aircraft trail, window layout and KML files. No files are modified or removed.
• You can create a bug or issue report manually by selecting main menu Tools -> Create an Issue Report to get a Zip file containing all relevant files needed to reproduce a problem.

Flight Plan

• Added function to convert procedures into a list of waypoints. Right click on a procedure leg in the flight plan table or the map display and select Convert to Waypoints. A warning will be shown to indicate limitations of the conversion. After converting you can edit the procedure waypoints like any other flight plan waypoint list.
• Added direct to function to all related context menus in flight plan table, map and search result table. This function is only enabled if you are connected to a simulator. You can select a direct to any waypoint ahead of the active leg, the destination airport or an alternate airport. Furthermore you can direct to any position, navaid or airport which are not a part of the flight plan. Using Direct to adds a waypoint PPOS (present position) at the aircraft location and a direct line to the clicked position.
• Less important columns are now hidden in the flight plan table per default. You can bring these back in the flight plan table context menu item Flight Plan Table Display Options or in the main menu Tools -> Flight Plan Table Display Options.
• Added preferred runway indication in departure and destination runway selection dialog window. This is based on the selection in menu Weather -> Airport Weather Source and shows the best runways for wind and the used weather source. Also showing head and crosswind for each runway in the selection table.
• Added calibrated magnetic declination at a VOR or real magnetic declination at a waypoint to flight plan table. This is disabled per default. Enable it in main menu Tools -> Flight Plan Table Display Options
• Now checking altitude restrictions correctly against airways considering the climb and descent phase of a flight plan.
• Now clearing airways in flight plan leg if they conflict with restrictions in climb or descent after flight plan calculation to avoid errors.
• Added button to dialog windows Select Departure Runway and Select Destination Runway to quickly jump to the procedure search tab showing departure or arrival and approach procedures.
• Changes in flight plan loading. Now detecting and correcting invalid cruise altitude values when loading a plan. The corrected altitude depends on plan type (IFR or VFR), used procedures and used airways. A notification dialog is displayed if a correction had to be applied.
• An invalid departure and/or destination airport is now allowed when loading a flight plan. The altitude at departure and destination points is assigned only if GLOBE elevation data is installed and active.
• Corrected wrong indications for flight plan having only one airport as is useful for pattern work. Fixed wrong departure indication. Now showing airport as destination as well as distance and time for single point plans again.
• Fixed issue with too late loading of elevation data possibly resulting in wrong flight plan altitudes.
• Fixes issues where flight modifications triggered unwanted follow selection jumping randomly to waypoints.
• Removed wrong indentation in print and HTML flight plan. More cleanup in HTML export and printing. Made header smaller. #1054
• Moved distance and time section in flight plan header up to general data. Added underline as separator in flight plan table header below distance and time section.
• Now showing a warning message if the parking spot of a flight cannot be found after loading or switching simulator databases.
• Fixed altitude adjustment. An altitude of 28,000 ft now remains at this value instead of wrongly extending it to 30,000
• User interaction fixes in flight plan table. Now avoiding unwanted centering of navaids due to follow selection while editing flight plan. Reduced unneeded updates. Fixed cursor positioning when editing flight plan.

Flight Plan Route Description

• Now reading and optionally writing departure runway and approach procedure/runway to and from ATS strings. You have to enable this in the dropdown menu button of the Flight Plan Route Description by selecting Write Runway and Approach instructions and fetch the route description from the current flight plan. Examples: EDDK/06 NVO1K NVO Q760 INLAR T853 LMA EDDL/LMA.I05R (approach ILS 05R via LMA) GCLA/36 TFS3T TFS GCTS/TES2.I07-Y (depart from runway 36 using SID TFS3T) and KSFO/01R DCT BAART R464 BITTA KAENA2 PHNL/BOOKE.R04L (approach RNAV 04L via BOOKE). This allows to share a complete flight plan by just using the route description.
• Logbook entries now use the detailed format for route description.
• Moved less used menu items to sub-menu Advanced in drop down button menu in Flight Plan Route Description dialog window.
• Fixed issue where wrong SID and STAR runway assignments were not recognized and no error message was printed.
• Better error report and warnings in output window.
• Updated quick help for route description.

Flight Plan Export

• Added export, loading and appending of an aircraft track from and to a GPX file in main menu File -> GPX Exchange Format. GPX track is centered after loading if enabled in options on page Files.
• Moved GPX export to category Garmin in multiexport.
• Fixed wrong altitude in route section for GPX export. Now using calculated altitudes as shown in elevation profile. #1053
• Corrected export of txt flight plans where STAR keyword was missing in some cases. This affected JarDesign and Rotate MD-80 aircraft.
• Added warning for invalid VFR flights plans when exporting a VFR plan to MSFS using airways and procedures.
• Fixed issue where export did not stop when answering No in warning dialog.
• Now prefixing one digit runway numbers with zero for X-Plane FMS export to avoid issues when loading into the GPS or FMS.

Information

• Better text formatting in airport runway and procedure information. Added separator line for runways and procedures.
• Made more important fields in aircraft progress bold and large for better visibility while flying: Heading, wind and pressure.
• Fixed issue where airports having procedures were not loaded properly in airport tab Nearest.

Map Display

• Added new map theme Stadia StamenTerrain now requiring an API key. Delete the old StamenTerrain files in your map themes folder which can be seen in options on page Cache and Files or in the installation folder .../Little Navmap/data/maps/earth to avoid error messages when starting Little Navmap. The obsolete installation instructions are here.
• Better error messages about map theme conflicts now showing both offending files.
• Added option to define distance of departure leg in airport traffic pattern.
• Option to use color or black and white gradients for aircraft trail indicating flown altitude. Enable this in options on page Map Aircraft Trail. The gradient is also used in the elevation profile. #97
• Added tooltips for aircraft trail and logbook trail preview. This is off per default. Enable this function in option on page Map Tooltips and Clicks.
• Trail points are now created dynamically depending on aircraft flight path to result in a trail having less points on straight legs but more points in turns or when doing altitude changes. This helps to improve map display performance. As a result, the trail points are not evenly spaced.
• Add-on airport display has changed and now adheres to airport filters instead of forcing an always-on display. Add-on filter now only overrides zoom settings and not filters. This means you can hide all add-on airports having a Soft Surface, for example.
• Fixed incorrect airport filter by procedure status which omitted airports in some cases. Examples EDFQ, EDGS, EDME and EKSN with MSFS and Navigraph in mixed data mode. #1055
• Added select in flight plan in map context menu More -> Select Leg in Flight Plan or for each click on a flight plan leg if enabled in options on page Map Tooltips and Clicks. This will highlight a flight plan leg in the table if you click on it in the map.
• Added option to hide alternate airports and related flight plan legs in menu View -> Show alternate Airports or on toolbar.
• ILS are now shown or hidden depending on related airport visibility as selected in the airport filter on the toolbar or in main menu View -> Airports.
• Added new airspace styles by Michael Schuster. Thank you a lot for your help!
• Map colors and styles are now loaded from a resource embedded in the program. You can still add a file little_navmap_mapstyle.ini to the settings folder to override the default styles. Your current little_navmap_mapstyle.ini is automatically backed up on first start after updating Little Navmap.
• Fixed issue where color for caution airspace could not be changed in little_navmap_mapstyle.ini.
• Now disabling font anti-aliasing for all labels when moving map to get a smoother movement.
• Fixed performance issues when drawing airway and other rotated text labels on Windows which resulted in performance issues when moving the map with airways or ILS visible.
• Now using Freetype as font engine for better text labels and better performance on Windows. Rotated texts are better readable now.
• Improved placement of flight plan text labels to minimize overlap.
• Procedure preview now shows restrictions also for Preview all Procedures.
• Added airspace labels. This is not perfect yet, labels may still overlap. Disable the labels or limit airspace display to improve map display performance if you see jerky map movement.
• Airspace label options added to options dialog on page Map Labels in branch Airspaces.
• Added text size option for airspaces on options page Map Display section Airspaces.
• Fixed missing COM on online center previews. #625
• Added option to disable redundant airspaces with multiple code Z on options page Map Display. #1047
• New option for airspace transparency and boundary line thickness on options page Map Display. These options are combined with styles in little_navmap_mapstyle.ini if this file is present.
• Fixed issue where large airspaces near anti-meridian disappeared.
• Now drawing transparent surfaces in X-Plane as light gray.
• Colors for apron, runway and other surfaces can now be changed in little_navmap_mapstyle.ini. #1059
• Fixed issue where truncated labels appeared at measurement or other lines.
• Added length in NM and ft or Meters to measurement line tooltips.
• Fixed missing inbound an outbound arrows at flight plan and improved text placement for these labels around VOR to avoid overlapping the symbols.
• Improved labels on parking spots on the map. Now replacing known keywords like Gate and others.
• Adjustments to background text boxes. Using rounded rectangles now. Corrected margins for text background rectangle.
• Changed default map darkening when using style from menu Window -> Style -> Night to a lighter value. You can adjust this in options on page Map in section Map Display Options.
• Fixed issue where internal cache was not cleaned when switching databases resulting in wrong nearest airport with procedure indications.
• New performance checking options for drawing in little_navmap.ini in group [Options], key MapLayerDebugDraw. This will print draw times to the map display.
• Fixed random crash when calculating best runway by wind for tooltip.
• Further optimizations and drawing improvements.

Elevation Profile

• Now deleting aircraft trail in elevation profile on takeoff to avoid a cluttered elevation profile. This does not affect the trail on the map display which is independently stored.
• Added optional display of vertical speeds to elevation profile header. You can enable this in the profile context menu or in the main menu Tools -> Elevation Profile Display Options in branch Header Line. Elevation profile settings are reset now and have to be re-adjusted.

Options

• Reorganized options dialog and moved some options to new pages.
• Added search function to options dialog on the top left. Search reduces the visible pages to the ones containing the search text. Matching labels and buttons are highlighted on each page.
• Added hints prefixed with a lightbulb in the options dialog pointing to other related settings. Some hints contain a link which directly opens the related page. Bold text is still an important note like Restart required.
• Corrected truncated texts in options label tree.
• Extended minimum and maximum line widths that can be set in options dialog for map features.

Procedures

• Added ARINC procedure type like I13R or R12 in brackets for approaches in procedure search tree.
• ARINC type and procedure ident can now be searched. DACNA (R06) will be found when entering DAC or R06, for example.
• Better indication for number of transitions using text instead of the misleading T.
• Added preferred runway indication in procedure search top label based on selection in menu Weather -> Airport Weather Source. This shows the best runways for wind and the used weather source.
• Showing head and crosswind components for approach procedures in procedure tree based on Airport Weather Source.
• Now considering airport ident when resolving procedure leg fixes to avoid invalid duplicate waypoint names in a region.

Search

• Completely reworked search functions for all search tabs. Now looking for partial text matches per default instead of requiring stars as wildcards in all text fields. This means that a search term of Chicago will find Gary Chicago as well as KORD and EDDE will find Erfurt-Weimar (EDDE) as well as Wedderburn. Stars * as wildcards and double quotes " for exact search can still be used. You can also enter a space separated list of names or idents and Little Navmap will show the results for each name.
• Added search field for all airport idents and names (ICAO, FAA, city, name and others) using partial match for quick search. Separate search fields are still available. The same rules as mentioned in the point above apply.
• Modified search fields hidden from the dropdown button menu (three-lines-button) are now ignored when searching.
• Search option fields selected from context menu using include/exclude are now opened automatically to avoid confusion.
• Now using better indications in the dropdown menu items. (changed) shows an option is used and visible to the user. (changed, not used) indicates a changed option which is not used since the related fields are hidden from the dropdown menu button.
• Corrected broken sort order of numerical columns when using distance search #1060
• Fixed search to allow usage of underscore (_) and percent (%) characters.
• Added option to preview the entries to be deleted when using the cleanup function in the userpoint and the logbook search.
• Fixed date and time stored in wrong format after editing a logbook entry. This resulted in a wrong sort order when sorting by time in the logbook table. Now storing local real time with timezone offset. Log data with wrong local real time and missing timezone is now corrected to current timezone offset. #1057
• Fixed crash that appeared when importing logbook entries or userpoints a second time.
• Optimizations to avoid redundant queries on loading and parameter switch.

User Interface

• Split toolbars into smaller sections and reorganized toolbar buttons for a more logical order. The smaller toolbars can now be better arranged to user needs. Note that the initial state after the update is not defined. You either have to re-arrange the toolbars manually or use the function in main menu Window -> Reset Window Layout to Default which also resets the toolbar layout to default.
• Added sub-menu User Manual - Helpful Chapters with important help links.
• Added new menu Search for quick access to most used search functions.
• Moved toolbars and dock window actions in menu Window to sub-menus.
• Now applying a font change to all tables and widgets instantly. Fixed issue where not all font attributes were taken in program windows.
• Fixed issue where bold font attribute was not considered in flight plan table and map labels.
• Updated menu button and tab button icons for better visibility.
• Corrected paths in logbook and other places. Now using operating system native path notation.
• Now compacting status bar fields after timeout if the mouse cursor is not inside the map (no coordinate display).
• Fixed issue where a canceled save process kept an invalid filename in file name history.
• Adjustments for style windowsvista for a better indication of selected menu items which were barely visible before.
• Adjusting selection color for inactive tables on Windows.
• Fixed issue where not all toolbars were resized on macOS.

Other

• Now also searching for ICAO code instead of internal ident for METAR reports when using X-Plane to avoid missing weather reports.
• Increased tolerance for altitude difference when detecting duplicates while flying online. This should help to avoid the shadow aircraft.
• Fixed various issues when using Windows UNC paths (file shares like \\server\share\path).
• Enabled IPv6 for remote connections to Little Navconnect.
• Added semicolon to invalid characters in filename. This will be replaced in file names when exporting flight plans.
• Replaced colon with comma as separator on Google coordinates in Italian translation.

Scenery Library

• Additional scenery folder added in options on page Scenery Library Database is now read recursively for all simulators. This means that you can use sub-directories to organize your add-ons.
• Hints about encrypted airports and others can now be skipped (Do not show hints again ...) after loading a scenery library database.
• Now excluding all navaids in detected Navigraph update when reading scenery library of MSFS. This speeds up the loading time.
• Fixed issues with moved or updated airports in MSFS when reading scenery library.

Web Server

• Enabled IPv6 for webserver and added additional IPv6 addresses to display.
• Fixed additional map theme not set on web server map which was stuck to OpenStreetMap.
• Fixed log flooding in web server.
• Corrected display of loopback or localhost device which is not accessible from a local network. This is now only added if no other address was found.

X-Plane

• Added version check for Little Xpconnect. Now showing a warning message if an outdated version of the plugin was found.

Linux

• Little Navmap supports the Wayland compositor which is used on some of the newer Linux distributions but you have to install the package qwayland5.

See the included CHANGELOG.txt or here online for a complete list across all versions.

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Direct Download

► Windows 64-bit Installer (MSFS and X-Plane) - LittleNavmap-win64-2.8.12-Install.exe ► macOS - LittleNavmap-macOS-2.8.12.zip ► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-22.04-2.8.12.tar.gz

Other Versions:

► Windows 32-bit Installer (only for FSX and P3D) - LittleNavmap-win32-2.8.12-Install.exe ► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04 for Debian or older systems) - LittleNavmap-linux-20.04-2.8.12.tar.gz

Zipped Windows releases without installer are available in the alternative download locations below or from the release assets at GitHub - Little Navmap Releases - Version 2.8.12 (scroll down to Assets).

Alternative Download Locations - Look into sub-folders for beta, development or release candidates:

► Box / Dropbox / Mega.nz

Notes

This is a stable release of Little Navmap which fixes several bugs and adds improvements as well as new features.

Notable changes: Windows Installation program, Prepar3D v6 support, fix for MSFS waypoint moved to North issue, Little Navconnect tray icon and more.

Also update Little Navconnect and Little Xpconnect if you're using one of them to avoid crashes that were introduced with 2.8.12.rc1..

macOS users: Keep in mind that you have to clear the quarantine flag when updating Little Xpconnect. See Clearing the Quarantine Flag on macOS.

The updated online user manual is available here: Little Navmap - User Manual.

See here for user manual downloads: User Manuals - Stable Releases.

A big thank you to all who reported bugs and issues!

Changes from 2.8.11 to 2.8.12

Installation and Startup

• Added Inno Setup installer packages. This installs Little Navmap for all users in the folders Program Files for the 64-bit package or Program Files (x86) for the 32-bit package. Both can be installed in parallel. The installer creates start menu entries for all included programs as well as most important files and links. File types can optionally be associated with Little Navmap which allows to load a flight plan by double clicking on a LNMPLN file in Windows Explorer or other file managers. Little Navmap is then either started or a running instance is used to load a plan. See Little Navmap User Manual - Installation. Note that there is no need to install or modify any files in the installation folder. See also Little Navmap User Manual - Map Themes.
• Removed restart requirement after installing MSVC Redistributables in 64-bit Windows installer (from 2.8.12.rc1).
• Improved the detection of an already running instance of Little Navmap. Removed warning dialog for Program is already running situation. Instead the Little Navmap window is brought into foreground and any file passed to the program is opened. Furthermore, all files passed on the command line without parameters are checked for type and are loaded accordingly. This is working on Windows, macOS and Linux. See also Little Navmap User Manual - Command Line Options.
• Now allowing to run more than one Little Navmap instance when using separate configuration folders.
• Updated MSFS SimConnect DLL to the latest version 0.21.1.0.

Map

• Added configuration option for degree grid in view menu. Select menu View -> Show Map Grid Configuration to change color of grid lines and labels.
• Fixed issue where split user aircraft trails from previous version 2.8.10 were read wrongly and appeared all connected to one.
• Corrected loading of oceanic tracks to avoid disappearing flight plan after load.
• Now creating two backups for main trail file little_navmap.track to avoid data loss on update.
• Now backing up configuration and track files with ..._update-backup.N suffix after installing and starting a new version to avoid data loss.
• Corrected issue where map grid was drawn below landmass in some offline maps.
• Menu and toolbar items for airspace altitude filter are now correctly selected again after restart.
• Fixed missing flight plan waypoint tooltips and click spots with airway or track display enabled.
• Added theme open flightmaps to included map themes. This is a modified version of the map theme by AmbitiousPilots including changes from b-faller.
• Now showing top level map image tile correctly for open flightmaps instead of an black area.
• Fixed more issues with the external map theme folder where maps having more than one layer like the open flightmaps map theme could not be used.
• Updated map theme file example.dgml.
• Corrected checking for duplicate elements of sourceDir in map theme DGML files for maps having more than one layer. This avoids the issue where different map themes might overwrite data in the cache folder.

Userpoint and Logbook

• Fixed problem where no error was shown when importing invalid userpoint or logbook CSV files.
• Fixed issue where an aborted CSV import might corrupt the undo data in some cases.
• Update CSV import and export for userpoints to allow unit suffixes in altitude. Now detecting suffixes m for meter and f for feet to import altitude in respective units. Feet is default when using no suffix.
• Fixed various issues with units in userpoint edit dialog. Now correctly setting and displaying metric units for Visible from and Elevation or altitude. Corrected Visible from display in userpoint search result table. Now using more precision in userpoint altitude to avoid rounding errors between units.

Flight Plan and Export

• Corrected wrong error message for procedures having a MAP lower than airport elevation. Example: FAUP RNAV UP1F1 (R35)
• Fix in flight plan export for MSFS where several waypoints are moved to North. Thanks to Github user eaides for the hint. #1038
• Added selection box for IFR or VFR flight plan type to route description.

Other

• Fixed issues where X-Plane simulator weather was not loaded from manually set folder without a X-Plane installation. The weather was not loaded and wrong warning dialog was shown. This is the case when Little Navmap runs on an networked or remote computer and the weather is loaded from a shared network drive from the flying computer.
• Flight plan route description dialog is now updated on style change.
• Moved AI and online aircraft menu items to sub-menu in View to avoid menu size limitation.
• More fixes in weather to skip unneeded reading of ActiveSky weather files. These are now read on demand if ActiveSky sky options like tooltips are enabled.
• Fixed crash when copying log file on size overflow which was introduced with 2.8.12.rc1. This resulted in a random crash to desktop while loading the scenery library.
• Fixed crash when loading Active Sky files if Active Sky file path was set manually and removed later on.
• Corrected menu items and toolbar buttons which remained disabled after connecting to simulator.

Little Navconnect Version 2.8.7

• Added support for system tray icon. Close button on window frame now optionally minimizes window to system tray. Enable this in menu Window -> Minimize to system tray. The tray icon is always visible. System tray icon shows last five messages from log in tooltip. #712 See Little Navconnect User Manual - Tray.
• Tray icon has a context menu to restore window, show settings and more. Left click on the tray icon to restore or minimize the Little Navconnect window.
• New option Window -> Start minimized to system tray to start program without opening a window.
• Fixed various issues with text field updates causing warnings in log file.
• Updated user manual.

See the included CHANGELOG.txt or here online for a complete list across all versions.

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Direct Download

► Windows 64-bit (MSFS and X-Plane) - LittleNavmap-win64-2.8.11.zip ► macOS - LittleNavmap-macOS-2.8.11.zip ► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-22.04-2.8.11.tar.gz

Alternative Download Locations - Look into sub-folders for beta or development releases:

► Box / Dropbox / Mega.nz / OneDrive

Other Versions:

► Windows 32-bit (only for FSX and P3D) - LittleNavmap-win32-2.8.11.zip ► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-20.04-2.8.11.tar.gz

Notes

This is a stable release of Little Navmap which fixes several bugs and crashes and adds improvements as well as new features.

Note that the installation of map themes has changed. Furthermore, there are changes in the scenery library menu and in the flight plan route description. See below for more information.

macOS users: Keep in mind that you have to clear the quarantine flag when updating Little Xpconnect. See Clearing the Quarantine Flag on macOS.

The updated online user manual is available here: Little Navmap - User Manual.

See here for user manual downloads: User Manuals - Stable Releases.

A big thank you to all who reported bugs and issues!

Changes from 2.8.10 to 2.8.11

Flight Plan and Export

• Now recognizing runway assignments from SimBrief when downloading flight plans. This fixes the random runway assignment after import.
• Now resolving SID and STAR transitions when loading MSFS PLN flight plan files. This also works for the SimBrief exported plans where the STAR name is omitted on the first waypoint. Note that this is not 100 percent reliable due to deficits in the MSFS PLN file format design.
• Trying to automatically select approach transitions for matching STAR waypoint similar as MSFS if an approach procedure is selected when importing MSFS PLN files.
• Improved X-Plane FMS export. Airports with procedures are now always saved with keywords ADEP or ADES to allow manual departure or arrival procedure selection in the GPS or FMS.
• Added warning if the scenery library mode Use Navigraph for all Features is enabled when exporting X-Plane FMS files to avoid issues when selecting procedures in the FMS or GPS.
• Fixed wrong error message when calculating elevation profile due to required vertical angle conflicting with an altitude restriction. Example: Airport LTFM with approach I17LX and other ILS at LTFM. Vertical angle is now ignored in such cases.
• Fixed issue with excessive fight plan altitude on loading causing program freeze and crash. This can happen when importing a flight plan using a format which does not provide cruise altitude information like FMS in some cases or FSC PLN.
• Now using best guess to set cruise altitude automatically after loading flight plan format without support for cruise altitude. This is based on procedure and airway restrictions.
• Added warning dialog if cruise altitude cannot be loaded from flight plan and has to be estimated.
• Applying best guess now for flight plan type (IFR/VFR) when loading flight plan formats not supporting this.
• Now attempting to load SID, STAR and respective transitions from FSC PLN files.
• Added workaround for broken X-Plane FMS flight plans having partially invalid altitude information.
• Rounding error related procedure altitude violations corrected when using metric altitude.
• Fixed issues with wrong flight plan cruise altitude when using metric altitude. Rounding errors in cruise altitude when loading and saving plans with metric altitude are minimized now.
• Added new optional element CruisingAltF to LNMPLN file format to avoid rounding errors when using metric units.
• Now using metric speed and altitude designators in route description if units are set accordingly in options on page Units.
• Fixed issue where imported flight plan (for example in FMS or PLN format) could be overwritten with the LNMPLN format after updating the plan from a route string.
• Fixed issues with default filename generation having CRUISEALT parameter. Now using local altitude unit as set in options.
• Adjusted route string reader to prefer a close VOR or waypoint before a NDB with the same ident.
• Fixed flight plan export and save functions to avoid suggesting filenames containing /, \ or other invalid characters.
• Fixed issue where airway information in flight plan at STAR entry was dropped after manually adding a STAR.
• Now removing first waypoint RW from X-Plane FMS 11 if a departure runway is selected. This avoids confusing the stock FMS and GPS which gave wrong turn indications.

Flight plan route description

• The lower part of the input field can now be used as a scratch pad. The upper bold highlighted section separated by an empty line is the current route description which is read and interpreted. The lower gray description texts are a part of the scratch pad. These are saved on program exit but ignored apart from that.
• The function Create flight plan now reads the first paragraph in the input field, i.e. until the first empty line.
• 'Load from flight plan' inserts the route description on top of the input field and leaves other texts below intact.
• Added undo/redo buttons to route description dialog window.
• Fixed issues where airways and waypoints were dropped in some cases.

Scenery Library

• Added optional automatic navdata selection depending on simulator and AIRAC cycle. The new option in menu Scenery Library -> Navigraph -> Select Automatically is enabled per default and selects the right navdata mode when switching between simulators or after compiling the database. The automatically selected mode can be seen in the disabled menu items in menu Navigraph or in the window title bar. Little Navmap User Manual - Navigraph
• The mode Use Navigraph for all Features is now enabled per default on first run after a fresh installation to have airports available if the simulator database is empty This is independent of the AIRAC cycle.
• Added option to include extra directories for scenery library scanning. Extra folders extending MSFS Community, X-Plane Custom Scenery or FSX/P3D Addon Scenery can be added in options on page Scenery Library Database in the top list. #959 Little Navmap User Manual - Scenery Library Database
• Added message in dialog window Load Scenery Library indicating excluded folders. This is a hint since wrong and unintended exclusions can often cause issues like missing airports.
• More cleanup for MSFS airport names. Now removing leading and trailing space from all names to allow search since some airport names are entered wrongly with spaces.
• Fixed issue where MSFS navdata update was recognized despite having its folders excluded.
• Fixed country names appearing as language keys when compiling MSFS. Names are now empty again since MSFS does not provide these.
• Corrected detection and reading of Navigraph navdata update in MSFS. Now reading airports from update. Navdata and procedures are omitted. Wrongly excluded package is now read. Speed up for reading scenery library by ignoring unused procedures from navdata update. #1019
• Workaround for missing aircraft model translations since MSFS SU12.
• Now adding start positions for runways and parking spots in Navigraph navdata compiler to allow departure parking selection for runways as well when using mode Use Navigraph for all Features. This change will appear with future Navigraph navdata updates.
• Updated included Navigraph cycle 1801 to cover above mentioned database changes.
• X-Plane 12 manually corrected localizers file is now read.
• Corrected overzealous filter for MSFS airport dummy structures which removed add-on helipads or airports. Example add-on: willicopta-spital-la-chaux-de-fonds-lsh9 which did not show up.

Userpoints

• Added quick Mark Airport as Add-on function in all related context menus in map, flight plan table and airport search result table. This inserts a userpoint of type Addon without additional editing. The labels of this userpoint type (yellow ring) are not shown on map to avoid overlap with the airport labels. You can add your own types starting with text Addon. These will be treated the same way. Little Navmap User Manual - Mark Airport as Add-on
• Added cleanup function for userpoints to remove empty or duplicates by several criteria. See menu Userpoints -> Cleanup Userpoints or the context menu in the userpoint search result table. Little Navmap User Manual - Cleanup Userpoints
• Userpoint CSV import is now one undo step for all selected files to avoid confusion after selecting more than one file for import.

Logbook

• Fixed takeoff and landing detection in logbook for airports without runways like heliports. These are now always registered in the logbook. Now falling back to any nearest airport on takeoff or landing if no runways were found.
• Reworked logbook statistics dialog. Enabled sorting for all columns (click on the column header) and removed the 1000 rows limit. The view loads more rows when scrolling down if needed.
• Added query Aircraft hours flown to logbook statistics. #1026

Map Display

• Added option to read map themes outside the installation folder. You can select a map theme folder in options on page Cache and Files below Map Display Themes. This is empty and therefor disabled per default. Put the map folders like google-maps-sat or us-vfr-sectionals directly into the selected folder and restart Little Navmap to detect the new map themes. This helps to avoid the re-installation of map themes after each update. Little Navmap User Manual - Map Themes
• Removed not working Clear Cache from page Cache and Files. Clear the map cache by going directly to the folders using menu Tools -> Files and directories -> Show map cache. Delete folders for related map themes there to clear the cache. #619 Little Navmap User Manual - Cache and Files / Map Display
• Added airport filter to hide military airports. Airport filters are reset after update.
• Fixed potential issue with steps effect when drawing lines like the aircraft trail.
• Now adding runway true heading to labels if declination is excessive as in Antarctica.
• Now rounding the entry altitude for destination runways to nearest 10 feet or meter to avoid confusing single digit values.
• Added option to hide AI on ground on options page Map Display. This is enabled per default and can help to avoid hidden AI if traffic tools do not update the on-ground status of aircraft properly.
• Improved measurement line drawing. Added new measurement line label text colors to configuration file little_navmap_mapstyle.ini (look for DistanceMarker).
• Measurement label now aligned with line.
• Avoiding flickering course values while dragging measurement line.
• Better measurement line handling: Tooltip and hotspot for measurement lines is now origin and end. The line can be moved from both ends.
• Measurement lines can now be the origin of a userpoint showing its label.
• Added option for airway display at flight plan legs in options on page Map Display Labels in branch Flight Plan. This is disabled per default.
• Adjusted settings for offset localizer to also detect slightly offset KJFK 22R. This is indicated by Offset Localizer in the tooltip.

User Interface

• Reading correct ICAO aircraft designator from MSFS aircraft.cfg files for user aircraft now. This allows to get the right ICAO aircraft designator like B738 or C172 which is used to match the aircraft performance to the simulator aircraft resulting in a warning in case of mismatch. You might need to adapt the aircraft performance files in some cases to avoid the warning message like User aircraft type "BE58" in simulator is not equal to type "EPIC" used in performance file. Adapt performance and menu Aircraft -> Edit Aircraft Performance. Change the field Aircraft type on the tab Aircraft accordingly. [Little Navmap User Manual - Aircraft Type]https://www.littlenavmap.org/manuals/littlenavmap/release/2.8/en/AIRCRAFTPERFEDIT.html#aircraft-type)
• Changed the airspace category toolbar buttons and menu items to a more logical order.
• Fixed several issues in dialog window and when creating folder structure for user files from menu Tools -> Create Directory Structure for saving Files.
• The web server is now only restarted on parameter change in options. This avoids the hanging due to unneeded restart on exit or cancel. #1019
• Now allowing comma separated coordinates for decimal coordinate formats like 50,07477,8,54053 or 50.07477,8.54053. Spaces before and after the comma are allowed. Little Navmap User Manual - Coordinates
• Added capability to read Google Earth or Google Maps coordinates with space separated degree and decimal minutes like -54 50.60, -68 17.73.
• Added option for Google coordinate output format in options on page Units.
• Fixed issue where a search for userpoint type was not applied on startup.
• Fixed freeze after error dialog when moving or deleting GLOBE path.
• Fixed occasional freeze or crash when loading the elevation profile on startup.

User Manual

• Adapted included and online user manual to changes.

See the included CHANGELOG.txt or here online for a complete list across all versions.

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Direct Download

► Windows 64-bit (MSFS and X-Plane) - LittleNavmap-win64-2.8.10.zip ► macOS - LittleNavmap-macOS-2.8.10.zip ► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-22.04-2.8.10.tar.gz

Alternative Download Locations - Look into sub-folders for beta or development releases:

► Box / Dropbox / Mega.nz / OneDrive

Other Versions:

► Windows 32-bit (only for FSX and P3D) - LittleNavmap-win32-2.8.10.zip ► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-20.04-2.8.10.tar.gz

Notes

This is a stable release of Little Navmap which fixes small bugs, crashes and adds small improvements.

X-Plane: Update your Little Xpconnect installation as well with the included version 1.0.37 to fix issues with AI injection tools.

macOS users: Keep in mind that you have to clear the quarantine flag when updating Little Xpconnect. See Clearing the Quarantine Flag on macOS.

The online user manual is available here: Little Navmap - User Manual.

See here for user manual downloads: User Manuals - Stable Releases.

A big thank you to all who reported bugs and issues!

Special thanks to Max Hille for finding the issue with Xpconnect on Linux and X-Plane 12!

MSFS Notes

The active pause problem was fixed with the MSFS version SU12.

Loading a flight plan with user-defined points placed at the at the North Pole has been fixed with MSFS version SU12.

See also MSFS Common Problems in the FAQ.

Changes from 2.8.9 to 2.8.10

• Navigraph selection is now remembered for each simulator selection separately. This means that the Navigraph selection is automatically changed when switching between simulators. The simulator and Navigraph selection is reset on the first startup on update. Use the menu item Scenery Library -> Validate Scenery Library Settings to check your settings.
• Created a clone of the scenery library settings validation menu item Scenery Library -> Validate Scenery Library Settings on the toolbar.
• Added support for ActiveSky for X-Plane 12. Little Navmap detects the ASX 12 files automatically when selecting the X-Plane 12 scenery library.
• Changed flight plan export for TDS GTNXi to add waypoint coordinates for disambiguation as well as procedures. This should help with flight loading issues due to navdata cycle mismatches.
• Added TDS GTNXi export using waypoints only.
• Density altitude added to airport weather report in window Information on tabs Airport -> Weather.
• Added density altitude to aircraft progress if aircraft is on ground. This is disabled per default and can be enabled in the menu Tools -> Aircraft Progress Display Options by checking Density Altitude in branch Environment.
• ILS, GLS and RNP approach slopes in elevation profile can now be forced to display for all approach types:
  • Disable ILS or GLS/RNP on the toolbar or in the menu View -> Navaids to see only flight plan related navaids on the map and approach related navaids in the elevation profile. This means you won't see an ILS slope for a VOR approach, for example.
  • Enable ILS to see slopes in the elevation profile independent of the approach type. A destination runway or an approach has to be selected to see the slope.
• Menu item Map -> Remove all Highlights and Selections (shortcut Ctrl+H) now also clears the multi procedure preview (Preview all Procedures in procedure search context menu).
• Added link Show Procedures besides link Map to related airport information tabs to avoid context menu use for departure or destination airport.
• Now copying flight plan cruise altitude over to the flight plan calculation window when opening or changing it in flight plan window.
• More accuracy for flight plan calculation preference slider.
• Added blue question mark help buttons to information and aircraft progress windows linking to the related user manual chapters.
• Fixed userpoints category not being enabled after assigning a new type to a userpoint. This avoids the confusing disappearance of a userpoint after changing the type.
• Added workaround for missing translations in MSFS for AI or multiplayer aircraft. Needs a reload of the scenery library.
• Adjusted airport rating calculation for MSFS. Now setting airports having only automatically generated apron snippets to zero rating which equal to Empty Airport. Fix needs reloading the scenery library.
• Now using correct localizer width in map for Navigraph and MSFS navaids. Localizer width added to ILS information display in tab Navaids and map display depiction. Note that this is only available for FSX, P3D, MSFS and future Navigraph databases. Needs a reload of the scenery library. #1011
• Wind pointer size on top of map now depends on set font size for map.
• Corrected VOR to/from courses which were omitted before or after procedures.
• Fixed crash when using the MSFS toolbar plugin or other web services of Little Navmap.
• Fixed issue with Italian translation using wrong units in search window. #1012
• Issue with disappearing navaids being part of missed approach selection fixed.
• Updated included SimConnect.dll in 64-bit build for MSFS to SDK 0.21.0.0.
• Other corrections to map drawing of procedures and selected legs.
• Updated user manual for functionality changes.

Little Xpconnect X-Plane plugin Version 1.0.37

• Fixed fetching of aircraft registrations/tailnumbers for AI and online aircraft.
• Better logic to read AI aircraft from add-ons where some use the new TCAS interface and some the old multiplayer interface.
• Added version number to menu item Little Xpconnect.

See the included CHANGELOG.txt or here online for a complete list across all versions.

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