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Little Navmap 3.0.18 released

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Direct Download

► Windows 64-bit Installer (MSFS and X-Plane) - LittleNavmap-win64-3.0.18-Install.exe
► macOS - LittleNavmap-macOS-3.0.18.zip
► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 24.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-24.04-3.0.18.tar.xz
► Linux Debian Installation Package (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 24.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-24.04-3.0.18-1_amd64.deb

Other Versions:

► Windows 32-bit Installer (only for FSX and P3D) - LittleNavmap-win32-3.0.18-Install.exe
► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04 for Debian or older systems) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-22.04-3.0.18.tar.xz
► Linux Debian Installation Package (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-22.04-3.0.18-1_amd64.deb

Zipped Windows releases without installer are available in the alternative download locations below or from the release assets at GitHub - Little Navmap Releases - Version 3.0.18 (scroll down to Assets).

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

► Read here if you have problems downloading Little Navmap for Windows
► See here if you have problems running Little Navmap on macOS

Notes

This is a stable release of Little Navmap that fixes small issues.

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

Thanks to everyone who reported issues!

Changes from 3.0.17 to 3.0.18

Adapted NAT download location to changed FAA page. Moved track URLs to track.cfg which can be overridden by placing the file in the settings folder. #1298
Added option for displaying true airspeed in other units. You can enable this in menu Tools -> Aircraft Progress Display Options in branch True Alternate.
Changed File -> Open Flight Plan or File. This function can now open all formats supported by Little Navmap similar to drag-and-drop of files into the program window. These formats are flight plans, aircraft performance (.lnmperf), GPX aircraft trails (.gpx) and window layouts (.lnmlayout).
Cleaned up layout of logbook entry edit dialog window.
Fixed centering of in procedure search tab. Now including airport when centering procedures with Follow selection enabled.
Linux: Dropped Ubuntu 20.04 build and added build for 24.04.
MSFS 2024: Removed wrong check for recently removed path StreamedPackages when reading MSFS 2024 data.
Now centering all shown procedures when clicking Preview all procedures in search tab.
Now showing a warning for an invalid cruise altitude when exporting a flight plan.
Removed PACOTS tracks since the FAA DINS Query page is no longer publicly available. Removed selection option for track types since only NAT is available for now.
Reworked aircraft trail. The setting in options on page Map Aircraft Trail does now affect only the visible trail points. The number of stored trail points is not affected by changing the field Maximum number of trail points shown. Maximum number of stored points is five million which is enough for several around the world trips. Keep in mind that the stored points are exported when saving as GPX and not the visible part.
When adding range rings, the system now: Automatically detects and attaches to map objects: When Shift+clicking on or near a waypoint, airport, or other map feature, range rings now snap to that feature’s position and display its identifier. Status messages now show what the range rings are attached. Thanks to Justin for the contribution.
Fixed airport runway length filter which was not considered in the web interface.
Map grid color settings are now considered in web interface.
X-Plane: Adapted Little Xpconnect to X-Plane 12 datarefs to fix wind display on the map. Little Navmap will show a warning message if you use the outdated Little Xpconnect plugin. Update the plugin from Little Navmap menu Tools.
X-Plane: Added hint regarding the X-Plane base path in Load Scenery Library dialog window: Note that the flight simulator base path is also used to detect weather files and the Little Xpconnect installation path for X-Plane.
X-Plane: Minimum required version for Little Xpconnect is now 1.2.2. Reinstall this from menu Tools.
macOS: Now detecting if Little Navmap runs in the Apple translocation sandbox. The program will show a warning if this is detected. Extract the downloaded archive in another folder than Downloads and continue to follow the installation instructions from the user manual if you see this.
Updated user manual.
Updated Windows Redistributables to latest.
Other small fixes and user interface improvements.

Web UI

Fixed map vertical centering on click
Fixed widget plugins moving, resizing and bounds under certain conditions
Updated web UI iframe feature support
Clarified Web API documentation for LatLon data

Changes by u-an-i.

Translations

Updated German translation.
Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation by Ricardo.

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

All files are checked by VirusTotal.

Note: There are always a few false positives on the installer while the majority of 60 to 70 anti-virus see no issue. Download and unpack the Zip archive it if this scares you.

Little Navmap 3.0.17 released

Sun, 20 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Direct Download

► Windows 64-bit Installer (MSFS and X-Plane) - LittleNavmap-win64-3.0.17-Install.exe
► macOS - LittleNavmap-macOS-3.0.17.zip
► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-22.04-3.0.17.tar.xz
► Linux Debian Installation Package (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-22.04-3.0.17-1_amd64.deb

Other Versions:

► Windows 32-bit Installer (only for FSX and P3D) - LittleNavmap-win32-3.0.17-Install.exe
► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04 for Debian or older systems) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-20.04-3.0.17.tar.xz
► Linux Debian Installation Package (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-20.04-3.0.17-1_amd64.deb

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

► Read here if you have problems downloading Little Navmap for Windows
► See here if you have problems running Little Navmap on macOS

Notes

This is a stable release of Little Navmap that fixes several small issues.

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

Thanks to everyone who reported issues!

Changes from 3.0.16 to 3.0.17

Fixed an issue where all VORTACs were loaded as TACAN in MSFS 2020, resulting in incorrect bearings and type display.
Now omitting the channel for VOR, VORDME, and DME for all MSFS simulators. The channel applies only to VORTAC and TACAN.
Fixed the issue with double runways when using the Navigraph navdata update in MSFS 2020. Example: The add-on for FHSH (no stock airport available) kychungdotcom-airport-fhsh-sthelena showed duplicate runways.
Cleaned up error handling for the scenery library loader to allow loading to continue after an error in XML or JSON files.
Fixed the issue where a broken CSV import resulted in errors for further imports of userpoints or logbook entries.
More filtering has been implemented to eliminate incorrect MSFS aircraft indications before starting a flight in the simulator. The incorrect aircraft resulted in an aircraft trail crossing all over the world, causing display issues and crashes.
Saving flown distance is now maintained between restarts. This avoids a zero flown distance in logbook entries.
Now properly disabling context menu items in the logbook and user data search to avoid crashes.
Added flown distance alongside flight plan distance to the bottom summary line in the logbook.
Added an option to scale aircraft icons separately for web pages on high-resolution displays. This can be changed in the options on the Web Server page.
Disabled the compass rose and other features on the Dynamic Touch and Drag web map.
The compass rose, endurance, altitude range, and turn path are disabled to avoid a cluttered display when using the Dynamic Touch and Drag web map.
Added a red extra range ring for zero fuel range. While the black dotted range ring shows the range with reserves, the red range ring shows the range without fuel.
Clearing the procedure preview now occurs when adding a procedure from the map context menu. This is now consistent with the behavior when adding a procedure from the search tab.
Improved circle drawing for range rings to avoid edges.
Changes in command line handling: Opening flight plans using -f from the command line now leaves plans in an unchanged state to avoid question dialogs and ease automation. Passing a filename without an option might still change a plan on loading to adjust cruise and leave it changed.
Plans created from descriptions from the command line are not temporary and will be cleared on restart. Save the plan manually to avoid this.
Fixed issues where a changed flight plan was erased when loading from the command line or by double-clicking on the plan file.
Enabled a warning when loading a plan with the wrong cruise altitude from a logbook entry.
Fixed the blurry map issue when jumping back to the user aircraft after user interaction.
Fixed issue where the map center was shifted with airspaces enabled. This placed the compass rose out of center at the right corner of the map.
Added two options to disable distance and bearing display on top of the map tooltip. Change these in the options on the Map Tooltips and Clicks page.
Attempt to fix crashes with long aircraft trails.
Updated user manual for changes in command line and endurance.
Updated Windows redistributable packages to the latest version.

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

All files are checked by VirusTotal.

Note: There are always a few false positives on the installer while the majority of 60 to 70 anti-virus see no issue. Download and unpack the Zip archive it if this scares you.

Little Navmap 3.0.16 released

Sat, 08 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Direct Download

► Windows 64-bit Installer (MSFS and X-Plane) - LittleNavmap-win64-3.0.16-Install.exe
► macOS - LittleNavmap-macOS-3.0.16.zip
► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-22.04-3.0.16.tar.xz
► Linux Debian Installation Package (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-22.04-3.0.16-1_amd64.deb

Other Versions:

► Windows 32-bit Installer (only for FSX and P3D) - LittleNavmap-win32-3.0.16-Install.exe
► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04 for Debian or older systems) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-20.04-3.0.16.tar.xz
► Linux Debian Installation Package (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-20.04-3.0.16-1_amd64.deb

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

► Read here if you have problems downloading Little Navmap for Windows
► See here if you have problems running Little Navmap on macOS

Notes

This is a stable release of Little Navmap which fixes issues with AI display in MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024. In addition, issues with in-game panels in MSFS that use the Little Navmap web server have been fixed.

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

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

Version 3.0.16

Changes from 3.0.15 to 3.0.16

Added check for mismatch between simulator and scenery library database. This will show a dialog window if you start to fly MSFS 2024 while having the MSFS 2020 scenery library enabled. Click Do not show again to switch automatically to the right scenery library.
Now showing a notification dialog when a user tries to export a MSFS 2020 plan while using the MSFS 2024 scenery library, for example. Click Do not show again to continue saving without the message.
Reworked SimConnect code. This helps to fix problems with disappearing AI traffic, multiplayer aircraft and other issues.
Added better message in the information window when no weather station can be found near an airport. A lack of weather stations prevents the display of interpolated and nearest weather.
Fix for wrong navaid selection in procedures. Example: LOWW SID SNU2A used the wrong navaid SNU in Sweden.
Corrected saving of map image and copying to clipboard using the wrong image size when using a scaled user interface.
Fixed crashes due to invalid aircraft data sent through SimConnect by MSFS.
From 3.0.15.rc1: Fixed the white aircraft with question mark seen when using X-Plane due to missing category.
From 3.0.15.rc1: Now hiding message No online aircraft shown on map in window Simulator aircraft which appeared wrongly without an online network selected.
From 3.0.15.rc1: Fix for error message when installing the Debian package on Linux. The error appeared when calling ´apt upgrade´. Now removing link before.
From 3.0.15.rc1: Now avoiding program abort on exception when reading the scenery library. This keeps Little Navmap running in case of exceptions while loading the scenery library.
From 3.0.15.rc1: Improved error handling when loading the scenery library from MSFS 2024.
From 3.0.15.rc1: Added option to add missing navaids to MSFS 2024. See User Manual - Additional Navaids for MSFS 2024 for more information.
Limiting vehicle size to avoid over sized ship icons.
More detailed information in log when clicking on AI or user aircraft helping to diagnose AI issues.
Now clearing remaining wrong map highlights for selected legs in flight plan.
Fixed double labels for airports which are a part of the flight plan.
Procedure highlights from Preview all Procedures are now cleared with the selection when clicking into the empty space of the tree widget or when adding a procedure to a flight plan.
The distance for the inclusion of airports in the METAR interpolation has been increased from 200 to 600 NM.
Removing & from file names and airport names in MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024 exported flight plans to avoid simulator hiccups.

Web Interface

Fixed display for web interface map Dynamic Touch and Drag also when using a scaled user interface.
Fixed issues with the MSFS add-ons Little Navmap VR (MSFS 2020), ALL IN ONE (MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024) and Little NavMap EFB Client (MSFS 2024) all now work correctly when using a scaled or a non-scaled user interface.
Added setting Scale delivered images according to system user interface scale level in options on page Web Server. Note that this applies only to add-ons using the Little Navmap WebAPI. This will deliver map images scaled according to the user interface scale level if checked and if you use the web server with high resolution monitors. This is the default behavior but can cause issues when using certain web interfaces. Deselect this if you use such an add-on or see issues like a corrupted map display. Does not apply to the OpenLayers API.
The OpenLayers API now returns images scaled by the system user interface scale factor (125%, 150% or 200%). This means that the returned image might be larger than the requested size depending on the user interface scale factor.
OpenLayers API returned requested images with a minimum height of 300 due to an internal bug. This is fixed now and images are returned in the requested size.
From 3.0.15.rc1: Adjusting map image request for display scaling by u-an-i.

Translations

From 3.0.15.rc1: Fixed untranslatable texts in help buttons in search tabs.
Updated Chinese translation by Eyderoe.
Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation by Ricardo.
Updated French translation by Patrick.
Updated German translation.
Updated Italian translation by Flavio.

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

All files are checked by VirusTotal.

Note: There are always a few false positives on the installer while the majority of 60 to 70 anti-virus see no issue. Download and unpack the Zip archive it if this scares you.

Little Navmap 3.0.14 released

Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Direct Download

► Windows 64-bit Installer (MSFS and X-Plane) - LittleNavmap-win64-3.0.14-Install.exe
► macOS - LittleNavmap-macOS-3.0.14.zip
► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-22.04-3.0.14.tar.xz
► Linux Debian Installation Package (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-22.04-3.0.14-1_amd64.deb

Other Versions:

► Windows 32-bit Installer (only for FSX and P3D) - LittleNavmap-win32-3.0.14-Install.exe
► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04 for Debian or older systems) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-20.04-3.0.14.tar.xz
► Linux Debian Installation Package (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-20.04-3.0.14-1_amd64.deb

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

► Read here if you have problems downloading Little Navmap for Windows
► See here if you have problems running Little Navmap on macOS

Notes

This is a stable version of Little Navmap which adds support for MSFS 2024 and fixes several issues, including X-Plane related ones.

Translations and user manual have been updated.

MSFS 2024 Scenery Library #1198

There are limitations since Little Navmap has to load the scenery library through the MSFS 2024 SimConnect interface and cannot rely on files anymore. All files used by Little Navmap from MSFS 2020 were dropped due to the streaming only approach of MSFS 2024. This required a full new data compiler implementation.

Please read Frequently asked Questions - MSFS 2024 Scenery Library Limitations for a detailed list of limitations.

MSFS online flight planner

Note that the MSFS online flight planner cannot import valid MSFS 2024 flight plans. You can still load flight plans copying the Little Navmap flight plan route description (see menu Flight Plan) and pasting it into the online flight planner. This has to be fixed by the developers of the MSFS online flight planner. #1234

Version 3.0.14

Changes from 3.0.12 to 3.0.14

MSFS 2024 #1198 and #1216

Loading of navaids is based on airport procedure references. Then starting with these the airway/route network is traversed to collect further navaids. Therefore, the long loading time of 10 to 15 minutes you have to expect.
A workaround has to be used to load navaids which are not connected to procedures or airways. These disconnected navaids are required to build Oceanic tracks or off-airway routes, for example. The workaround has to be used until SimConnect is improved to provide a worldwide list of navaids.
The Navigraph navdata update is detected in folder Community to select the correct scenery library mode in Little Navmap automatically. Note that navaids are loaded incompletely in this mode to save time. The Little Navmap database should be updated directly using the Navigraph FMS data manager.
Procedures having the same runway transitions are combined. Runway transitions are collapsed to parallel runways (indicated by SID 16L, 16R, for example) or All opposed to MSFS 2020 where procedures are duplicated.
Magnetic declination for all facilities except VOR is calculated using the World Magnetic Model 2025 instead of the partially off MSFS 2024 values.
Added reading and writing of MSFS 2024 flight plans to export from menu File and multiexport. Ctrl+Shift+F now saves a PLN file for MSFS 2024 from the Little Navmap menu File. Note that you have to load the flight plans in the MSFS 2024 EFB after starting a free flight. This format does not support selection of a departure parking position.
The keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+B is now used for MSFS 2020 PLN files.
From 3.0.13.beta2: Fixed issue with missing and broken airways.
From 3.0.13.beta2: Now extracting aircraft ICAO designator (BE80 or C172, for example) from MSFS 2024 to avoid problems with performance collection.

Scenery Library

Added TACAN and VORTAC station types for all MSFS simulators including display of channel.
Now flagging all VOR and NDB waypoints as artificial in FSX, P3D and MSFS simulators to hide them in Little Navmap. These are present in the simulator but are not real waypoints and are used only internally to build the airway network.
From 3.0.13.beta2: Fixed issues where airways were not built correctly reading X-Plane data. Examples which did not read: ZBAA IDKEX B339 ASILA A575 INTIK Y655 AROGU A575 KD A308 ML A300 RUBOR T448 SOPUS USSS, ZUCK PINAB W80 WFX W179 OMBON B330 GOBIN W66 NUKTI B215 HAM W99 AGOXA ZWWW and ZUCK UNRIX W180 BONSA W91 IDSID W30 MEBNA ZPPP #1219
From 3.0.13.beta2: Fixed issue where airways were built using wrong navaids. Example: The NDB BM/UH exists twice using this ident/region combination and the Little Navmap airway builder selected the wrong and far away NDB to build the airway A800. #1237
Fixed detection of military airports. Added new keywords for military names in other languages.
Broken taxiway paths from MSFS 2020 being wider than 1000 ft are now omitted. Example: EDDM in MSFS 2020 resulting in a big white area drawn on top of the airport when zooming closer.
ILS feather geometry is now using a minimum width of 2 degrees to avoid ILS feathers shown as lines.
Updated to World Magnetic Model 2025 for more accurate declination calculation when using X-Plane and MSFS simulators.

Map

Removed drawing of transparent paths and aprons using patterns. All are now opaque.
Fix for wrong drawing of aircraft trail around anti-meridian resulting in straight horizontal lines.
Default flight plan display and highlight options changed. Now using transparent flight plan line and all highlights. This affects only new users. Go to options on page Map Flight Plan to enable the transparency manually.
From 3.0.13.beta2: Fixed drawing issue where exact vertical lines were not shown in Mercator projection. This affected measuring lines, flight plan legs, airways and more. Example: Airway L888 between PEXUN and SANLI. #1221
Fixed disappearing large distance rings when zooming close in. #1207
Corrected airway and ILS text background affected by airspace display. Background color for labels was incorrect. #1207
Removed white fill for unknown runway surface and replaced it with light gray for better visibility in dark and light map themes.
Removed wrong transponder display 0000 shown for ships and other vehicles.
Added map theme MapBox Streets. Remove any map theme using the same name if you have one installed. Otherwise, Little Navmap will show error messages hinting you to do so.
From 3.0.13.beta2: Removing airport vehicles from all MSFS simulator AI traffic. This can result in missing traffic when using AI traffic tools which supply the wrong vehicle category. Only vehicle categories Airplane, Helicopter and Boat are shown. All others are disregarded.
From 3.0.13.beta2: Fix for missing distance at first missed approach leg.
From 3.0.13.beta2: Fixed issue where wrongly sized images were returned to the web interface which resulted in an off/displaced image in the web interface. This appeared when using a user interface scale (125 % or 150 %, etc.) on high DPI screens on the computer running Little Navmap.
From 3.0.13.beta2: Image export now uses more precise map bounds as seen on the screen and uses correct image sizes when using a user interface scale.

Flight Plan, Procedures and Aircraft Progress

Added keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+K to preview all procedures.
Now activating tree display when pressing Shift+F5 to activate the procedure search. This allows navigating through procedures in the tree after pressing the shortcut.
Added hint in flight plan calculation dialog window to add procedures before calculating flight plan.
From 3.0.13.beta2: Now always adding SID exit and STAR entry waypoint for SimBrief export. Example: LFTH RUBIT XAMAL USANO BASIP EGHIN EGHI1D LIMJ #1205
Fixed issue where ILS could not be found for procedures if airport ident was empty. This resulted in recommended navaids not being resolved in procedures (red error message in procedure search).
Fixed bug where X-Plane 11 and 12 exported FMS formats had departure and destination wrongly swapped.
Fixed crash when selecting airport as alternate in airport search result table or in logbook. The function Add as Alternate was wrongly enabled despite having an empty route. #1222
Added airway type description to flight plan table configuration to make the meaning of airway suffixes L (low) and H (high) clear.
Removed Australian AUSOTS track system since it is discontinued. Now uses preferred routes.
Added workaround where co-located NDB and localizers with the same name preferred the NDB wrongly for procedures. This resulted in the ILS or localizer not being shown for related approaches. Example ENOV approach LDMB. Localizer and NDB are both named HN there.

Other

Improved on-ground approximation to avoid wrong takeoff detection when hovering with helicopters.
Added missing portable script Little Navmap Portable.command mentioned in the user manual to macOS build.
Added hint explaining how to fix wrong map theme path in error message window.
Removed animated logo element in web interface since it might cause display issues in plugins.
Better message in information weather display if not connected to simulator.

Translations

Added disambiguation for translation texts to avoid same translation for procedure restrictions and airway types, for example.
Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation by Ricardo.
Updated Italian translation by Flavio.
Updated French translation by Patrick.
Updated German translation. Changed term Prozedur to more common Verfahren.
Enabled Chinese translation again and update it by Eyderoe
Added Chinese translations for Qt components from project qt_zh_CN.ts to fix not translated buttons. #1228

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

All files are checked by VirusTotal.

Note: There are always a few false positives on the installer while the majority of 60 to 70 anti-virus see no issue. Download and unpack the Zip archive it if this scares you.

Little Navmap 3.0.12 released

Sun, 03 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Direct Download

► Windows 64-bit Installer (MSFS and X-Plane) - LittleNavmap-win64-3.0.12-Install.exe
► macOS - LittleNavmap-macOS-3.0.12.zip
► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-22.04-3.0.12.tar.xz
► Linux Debian Installation Package (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-22.04-3.0.12-1_amd64.deb

Other Versions:

► Windows 32-bit Installer (only for FSX and P3D) - LittleNavmap-win32-3.0.12-Install.exe
► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04 for Debian or older systems) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-20.04-3.0.12.tar.xz
► Linux Debian Installation Package (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-20.04-3.0.12-1_amd64.deb

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

► Read here if you have problems downloading Little Navmap for Windows
► See here if you have problems running Little Navmap on macOS

Notes

This is a stable release of Little Navmap that fixes smaller issues.

Reload the scenery library database to get fixes for airports and procedures.

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

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

Version 3.0.12

Changes from 3.0.11 to 3.0.12

Problem with disappearing large range rings and other lines on very high and very close zoom distances fixed. Range rings > 4000 NM disappeared from the map when using Mercator projection or when zooming in close.
Fixed exception when downloading Oceanic tracks.
Fixed issue where ILS were missing for MSFS. Examples EGPH using ILS approach with an add-on airport.
EDDF double ILS as for runway 25R, using the ILS IFNW and IFNR now correctly used for MSFS. The right ILS is selected for display when using the related approach.
Fixed broken airway collection for X-Plane. Example: Airway W66 not found for the flight plan route description ZUCK ATBUG W66 JNQ ZWWW. #1197
Fixed issue where last airway in scenery library was omitted. This affected all simulators.
Better error reporting and validation in log file for invalid taxiway structures in MSFS. #1200
Display of marker beacons now disabled if ILS or airports are not shown.
Fixed missing circles for online towers and centers not having a matching geometry in the user airspace database. This also disabled the tooltips on the map.
Corrected online center size settings in options on page ‘Map Online`. Little Navmap now falls back to user defined value if an online center does not provide a visual range value. Fixed values reset back to default when applying options.
Fixed several issues in X-Plane database when assigning airports to procedures. As a result procedures could not be loaded from flight plans and the airport procedures menu was wrongly disabled. Examples for X-Plane 12: No procedures were found for Pokhara Intl (VNPR) and Qualicum Beach (AT4) since their X-Plane ident does not match official airport codes like ICAO, FAA or local. Note that X-Plane 11 may still refuse to load flight plans created using such airports while there are normally no issues using X-Plane 12.
Wrong procedure centering when clicking in procedure search corrected. Now depends on visibility of the missed approach.
Improved export of X-Plane FMS files if airport has several idents. Flight plans using Qualicum Beach (AT4) and similar cases as departure or destination can now be loaded in X-Plane.
Removing fullscreen button now when copying map image to the clipboard or when saving screenshots.

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

All files are checked by VirusTotal.

Note: There are always a few false positives on the installer while the majority of 60 to 70 anti-virus see no issue. Download and unpack the Zip archive it if this scares you.

Little Navmap 3.0.11 released

Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:00:00 +0000

Direct Download

► Windows 64-bit Installer (MSFS and X-Plane) - LittleNavmap-win64-3.0.11-Install.exe
► macOS - LittleNavmap-macOS-3.0.11.zip
► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-22.04-3.0.11.tar.xz
► Linux Debian Installation Package (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-22.04-3.0.11-1_amd64.deb

Other Versions:

► Windows 32-bit Installer (only for FSX and P3D) - LittleNavmap-win32-3.0.11-Install.exe
► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04 for Debian or older systems) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-20.04-3.0.11.tar.xz
► Linux Debian Installation Package (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-20.04-3.0.11-1_amd64.deb

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

► Read here if you have problems downloading Little Navmap for Windows
► See here if you have problems running Little Navmap on macOS

Notes

This is a stable release of Little Navmap that fixes many issues and adds some new features.

This update is recommended for all users.

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 program will remind you to reload the scenery library due to database changes. This is optional.

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

Changes from 3.0.9 to 3.0.11

Flight Plan

Now adding airport, parking or other start positions to the flight plan once connected to the simulator with an empty plan. This function can be disabled in options on page Files.
Now removing any alternate airport if the same airport is set as destination or if it is added otherwise to the flight plan.
Added option to disable minor error messages about missing parking spots in flight plan. Note that the settings for flight plan header and footer are reset to default.
Enabled reading and writing of NAT notation in flight plan route description. This fixes issues when downloading a flight plan using North Atlantic tracks from SimBrief or using the notation in the flight plan route description. Example: NATA is converted to NAT track A. #1110
Fixed issue with dropped airway information. This affected plans that have only one leg between departure and arrival. As a result an airway was dropped on saving, exporting and using it in the flight plan route description. Example: SBRJ EVKO3A.NAXOP UZ45 IBDA1A SBSP resulted in SBRJ EVKO3A.NAXOP IBDA1A SBSP. #1130
Fixed issue where parking spots could not be found resulting in an error message after reloading a flight plan when using the option Use Navigraph for all Features.
From 3.0.10.rc1 to 3.0.11: Made GPX file detection more tolerant. Now showing a warning if the GPX file does not contain any track points.
From 3.0.10.rc1 to 3.0.11: Flight plan route description is now updated after downloading or deleting oceanic tracks.
From 3.0.10.rc1 to 3.0.11: Now updating flight plan route description after switching simulator.
From 3.0.10.rc1 to 3.0.11: Corrected wrong error message File does not contain track points when loading GPX files.

Export

Added export format for FlightFactor Boeing 777 V2. This is a FMS format file with procedures stripped since the aircraft rejects loading FMS files with procedures.
Fixed issue where RealityXP GNS export declared the destination airport wrongly as a userpoint when using export option with userpoints.
Now using ISO date with offset from UTC in all flight plan files.

Elevation Profile

Increased number of samples when calculating elevation from GLOBE data to avoid missing peaks when drawing the elevation profile.
Added option for indicated altitude label to elevation profile. Enable this in menu Tools -> Elevation Profile Display Options in branch User Aircraft Labels -> Indicated Altitude.
Fixed wrong label description in profile configuration dialog mentioning wrongly Actual Altitude.

Map

Added function to decrease and increase the density of labels on the map. This is available in the detail toolbar button, menu Map, Ctrl+Shift+Mouse Wheel, Ctrl+Shift++ and Ctrl+Shift+-.
Added US VFR and IFR chart map themes.
Added option to show heading to departure runway position using a dashed line with arrows. This can be disabled in menu View -> Show Direction to Departure Runway. This line is drawn from the departure parking or aircraft position (if connected) and disappears when arriving at the runway or when taking off.
User and AI aircraft now drawn on top of user features like measurement lines or range rings.
Userpoints related to navaids like VOR now use the same size as the real navaids. Size of userpoints and navaids still can be changed separately in options. This affects airport, VOR, NDB, waypoint, Obstacle and VRP userpoints. The last three are based on the waypoint size. #1179
Improved display of procedure turn instructions. Reduced distance for turn leg to fix for a more realistic value. Extended stub leg for turn towards runway and removed distance display for this leg. Added missing restriction text for procedure turns.
Fixed alignment of procedure end or start for displaced simulator airport runways compared to the navdata. Example: ENOL on all simulators.
Approach runway position now correctly terminated at offset threshold.
First SID leg is now aligned with runway to avoid it being drawn all over the airport in some cases.
Better distance estimate for procedure legs terminated by altitude. Now considering altitude.
Fixed disappearing user aircraft tooltip after automatic trail truncation.
Fixed potential crash when truncating short aircraft trail and applied more optimizations for display.
Fixed issues with labels on long measurement lines and flight plan legs. Lines flipped direction arrows at certain zoom values.
Fixed issue where Great Circle airspace boundaries were drawn as a straight lines in some cases.
Improved display of airspaces that touch the poles.
Fixed issue where settings of some airspace types were not saved or applied. Note that airspace options are reset to default on update.
Added option to disable taxiway lines and names. These can be changed in options on page Map Labels in branch Airport Details. Note that airport display options are reset to default.
Fixes for menu Tools -> Reset Display Settings. These now affect only map display options in menu View.
Setting Load the map display saved settings on options page Startup and Updates now affects the same options as View -> Reset Display Settings now. This is map theme, map projection and detail levels as well.
Fixed issue where userpoints were not reset correctly when using Reset Display Settings.
Added shortcut Ctrl+C to copy coordinates at the cursor position in the map window to the clipboard. Note that you have to activate the map window by pressing F2 or clicking into it before using any shortcuts there.
Disabled Shift/Ctrl/Alt+Left/Right/up/Down keys for map scrolling to avoid shorcuts overlapping with operating system functions.
Fixed inadvertent movement or zooming on map display when using mouse wheel, keyboard shortcuts containing +, - or cursor keys.
Now stopping map drawing on overflow of highlighted map objects (e.g. selected navaids in the search result table) from search to avoid program freeze.
Fixed issue where the Too many objects message in the status bar was not reset in some cases.
Fixed missing tooltip for waypoints highlighted on the map which were selected in the navaid search result table.
Fixed issue where navaids like recommended fixes from flight plan procedures did not react to a single or double click.
From 3.0.10.rc1 to 3.0.11: Save Map as Image for AviTab now uses PNG as the default format since JPG may cause crashes.
From 3.0.10.rc1 to 3.0.11: Fixed issue where images can be saved using the wrong format ignoring selection in the format drop down box. Now always adding file suffix according to image type.
From 3.0.10.rc1 to 3.0.11: Fixed issue where wrong coordinates were used when selecting More -> Jump to Coordinates in map context menu.
From 3.0.10.rc1 to 3.0.11: Fixed issue where procedures zoomed too far out when showing in procedure search. This was caused due to too far away recommended navaids like GCC/K1 for KASE SID 33 LINDZ1.
From 3.0.10.rc1 to 3.0.11: Splitting large aircraft trails into partitions for better performance and to avoid crashes.
From 3.0.10.rc1 to 3.0.11: Fixed memory leak when drawing lines.

Scenery Library

Fixed crash with older databases having table airport without columns icao and iata.
Removed obsolete and unused tables. Tables airport_medium, airport_large, route_node_radio, route_edge_radio, route_node_airway and route_edge_airway. View creation in database now disabled. Note that this means that newer databases cannot be used by Little Navmap versions older than releases from around 2020. The program will show a SQL exception if this is the case. Update Little Navmap to the latest if you run into this.
Better detection of the longest runway for airports. Now ignoring water runways if airport has both water and land runways.
Added waypoint names to X-Plane and DFD compilers. #1176
Updated track database schema to avoid incomplete waypoint information display. #1176
Disabled 3D flag for empty airport display for X-Plane 12 since the 3D flag is unreliable and broken there. Major airports like KSEA, KORD or EDDF do not have this flag set.
Fixed wrong airport bounding rectangle calculation for X-Plane airports. Example: KSEA in X-Plane 12. This resulted in zooming to far out when double clicking the airport.
Fixed issue where detection of malformed MSFS airports rejected valid airport add-ons with a message Duplicate airport ident. This happened when add-on developers put more than one of the same airport into one BGL file.
Better airspace geometry for Navigraph databases, airspaces read from simulator libraries and user files. Now considering Rhumb line segments in DFD airspace description. Note that a workaround is used to detect the segments for simulator and user airspaces since required information is missing there. This eliminates wrong airspace boundaries drawn as bows (Great Circle lines). Note that this needs a new AIRAC cycle if using the Navigraph update.
Fixed duplicate reading of X-Plane airspace.txt resulting in airspaces shown twice. The file airspace.txt in Custom Data now correctly overrides the one in Resources.
Updated minor database version to 29 due to several schema changes. This results in a notice about a previous database version although reloading is not required.
Fixed issue with double and invalid COM frequencies for MSFS airports when using MSFS Navigraph update.
From 3.0.10.rc1 to 3.0.11: Fixed issues reading MSA centers for X-Plane where runways were not detected. Now also looking for center points of ILS.

Search

Added option for minimum distance in logbook cleanup dialog window.
Fixed issue with bounding rectangle calculation which resulted in wrong results when searching by Distance from Mark and other functions around the antimeridian. #1184
Waypoints now can be searched by name.

Web Server

Fixes to web interface by u-an-i. Click or tap now moves to the correct map position. Note that you have to do a hard reload in the web browser if you see an incomplete map or other issues. Press Ctrl+Shift+R on most browsers to do a hard reload bypassing the browser cache.
Fixes for random crashes when using the web interface.

User Interface

From 3.0.10.rc1 to 3.0.11: Translations for French, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese updated. Thanks to Flavio, Patrick and Ricardo!
Added winds from airport METAR to tab Airport -> Runways in dock window Information.
Fixed issue where an invalid error message about a wrong X-Plane path was shown when switching map airport weather.
Now getting best guess for user aircraft type designator and category in MSFS. Using keys icao_type_designator and icao_model from file aircraft.cfg.
Added aircraft category to detect helicopters in MSFS.
Added help menu item pointing to keyboard shortcuts.
From 3.0.10.rc1 to 3.0.11: Fixed reversed meaning of settings By airspace name vs. callsign and By airspace file name vs. callsign on options page Map Online.
From 3.0.10.rc1 to 3.0.11: Fixed problem with wrong crash detection when shutting down operating system with Little Navmap running.
From 3.0.10.rc1 to 3.0.11: Now always exiting program if command line option --quit / -q was set, even if no other instance was found.
From 3.0.10.rc1 to 3.0.11: Fixed wrong error message when reading flight route descriptions from the command line.
From 3.0.10.rc1 to 3.0.11: Fixed issue where dialog windows appeared behind the main window that made the program appear to freeze or crash.

User Manual

Added link to Google Translate on the top page in the user manual where the whole manual can be translated on the fly into another language. Added the same on top of the page Alex’ Projects and the Frequently asked Questions
Updated manual for new detail functions: User Manual - Map Menu - More/Less Map Labels
Direct to departure function: User Manual - View Menu - Show Direct to Departure.
Updated the outdated user manual section for the web interface: User Manual - Web Server.
Updated airspace chapter for online airspace loading and matching: User Manual - Loading Airspaces.

Little Navconnect Changes from 3.0.6 to 3.0.7

Disabled crash detection since it resulted in wrong crashes found when running program in system tray on Windows.
Now always exiting program if command line option --quit / -q was set, even if no other instance was found.

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

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Little Navmap 3.0.9 released

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Direct Download

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

Other Versions:

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

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 a few issues and provides better error reporting for crashes. New features and small improvements are planned for the next release 3.0.10.

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

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

Changes from 3.0.8 to 3.0.9

Fixed issue where NOAA and X-Plane 12 weather stations were not updated and showed outdated weather.
Installer now removes all Dutch, Chinese and Spanish compiled .qm translation files before installing. These translations have not been updated for a long time which can cause problems in the user user interface. The resulting issues range from arrows pointing into the wrong direction to missing texts and numbers. You can still install the translations manually if you wish by downloading the related *.qm files from GitHub - littlenavmap - release/3.0 and saving them in the directory translations in the installation folder. Contact me if you’d like to update a translation or if you would like to create a new one: Contact.
Attempt to fix crashes for the web server when accessing databases resulting in a crash.
Fixed issue where program could be started more than once if stuck in an early warning or question dialog window. This could result in crashes and other problems.
Now collecting detailed location information on crashes (stack traces). Note that this is only enabled for the Windows 64-bit version. Other operating systems already have means to collect crash information (Linux core files and macOS crash reports). A file C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\ABarthel\little_navmap_stacktrace.txt is created on crash and included in all generated crash reports.
Other small text changes in the user interface.
Updates to user manual.
Little Navconnect: See file CHANGELOG.txt in sub-directory Little Navconnect in the installation folder for a list of changes.

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

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Little Navmap 3.0.8 released

Sun, 07 Jul 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Direct Download

► Windows 64-bit Installer (MSFS and X-Plane) - LittleNavmap-win64-3.0.8-Install.exe
► macOS - LittleNavmap-macOS-3.0.8.zip
► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-22.04-3.0.8.tar.xz
► Linux Debian Installation Package (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-22.04-3.0.8-1_amd64.deb

Other Versions:

► Windows 32-bit Installer (only for FSX and P3D) - LittleNavmap-win32-3.0.8-Install.exe
► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04 for Debian or older systems) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-20.04-3.0.8.tar.xz
► Linux Debian Installation Package (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-ubuntu-20.04-3.0.8-1_amd64.deb

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 crashes and adds a few improvements and new features.

The program translations for Brazilian Portuguese, French, German and Italian as well as the user manual have been updated.

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

Reload the scenery library to see fixes like the duplicate COM frequencies for MSFS airports.

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

Changes from 3.0.6 to 3.0.8

Flight Plan Loading and Export

Added export option for MSFS KLN 90B #1136
3.0.7.rc1 to 3.0.8: Fixed KLN90B export to using kln.pln as filename. #1164
Added multiexport option for MSFS JustFlight BAE-14. This uses the QualityWings format.
Made loading of MSFS PLN flight plan files more tolerant for missing altitude in element WorldPosition.
Fixed issue where a wrong error message about invalid procedures appeared after loading a MSFS PLN file. The message appeared when saving loaded PLN as LNMPLN.
Better cruise altitude estimate if altitude could not determined from the flight plan after loading. Altitude is rounded up to 2000 ft to the maximum of departure and destination elevation if all else fails.
Changed file extensions in multiexport to be untranslatable for local language to avoid issues.
Now adding STAR entry waypoint plus airway to MSFS PLN export in certain cases. Removing destination runway waypoints from MSFS PLN export if STAR is used.
Fixed aircraft trail for logbook entry that was incorrectly truncated.
Corrected display of split aircraft trail when starting a new flight on ground. Previously the trails were shown wrongly connected.
Fixed an issue where the cruise altitude was set incorrectly after downloading a flight plan from SimBrief.

Weather

Added interpolated weather reports for NOAA, VATSIM, IVAO and X-Plane weather. These appear at airports having no METAR reports. Note that this does not cover cloud layers.
Added wind display for landing and takeoff runway in flight plan table header. This uses station or interpolated winds as selected in menu Weather -> Airport Weather Source.
Added support for Active Sky FS (MSFS).
Fixed issue where Active Sky weather was not updated.
Fixed crash that happened randomly when updating METAR data or switching between simulators with weather enabled.
Added sunrise and sunset to weather report page in information dock window.
Now showing weather stations with invalid reports crossed out on the map.
Fixed wrong time zone for METAR reports from FSX/P3D.
Better error messages for METAR decoding and outdated weather.
More optimizations to weather handling.

Random Flight Generation

Added shortcut to random flight creation: Menu Flight Plan -> Generate Random Flight. This opens the search dock window and activates the controls to generate a random flight.
Added a dialog window where a user can select either a fixed departure or a fixed destination airport for the random flight generation. Add at least one airport to your flight plan to enable this function. #1013
Random flight generation now puts the change on the undo/redo stack once the user accepts a generated flight. This is the same behavior as used in the flight plan route description which allows to restore a previous flight plan and its changes.
Adjusted the maximum distance for random flight plan to realistic values. The maximum is 10.800 NM.
Fixed the minimum and maximum distance for random flight search not being saved on exit.
Performance improvements and random selection for departure and destination functionality by u-an-i.

Procedures and Runway Selection

Improved procedure search. Now showing the first and last waypoint of procedures in the procedure tree. Also, showing the first and last waypoint of a selected procedure in the header. The header shows first and last for the full path including the procedure when selecting a transition.
Search now also looks for first and last waypoint of procedures. Procedures and and transitions are hidden if no criteria match text search. Procedures are expanded if a transition matches the search text. This allows finding the matching STAR for a selected approach and vice versa, for example.
Procedure view now tries to keep content when switching simulators, provided the airport exists in both simulators.
The procedure search tab now expands procedure branches already added to the flight plan. Procedures and/or respective transitions are expanded when showing procedures for departure or destination airport.
Runway selection dialog windows now have the current runway end from the flight plan preselected.
The selection in procedure search is not saved anymore when changing airports to avoid unwanted highlighting on the map.
Added Shift+F5 shortcut for procedure search.
Fixed issue where switching between simulator databases left the procedure search in an invalid state resulting in a crash.
Fixed issue where the show procedure menu item was not enabled in map context menu and others. Example: Weston (EIWT) on X-Plane. #1154
Procedures for a clicked airport can now be shown with checkbox Airports disabled in options on page Map Tooltips and Clicks.
Added keyboard shortcuts in procedure search. Hit Return to show a procedure or a waypoint in the tree. Use the Down key to activate the tree from text input field.

Logbook

Added cruise altitude from used flight plan to logbook table. The logbook table layout is reset back to default.
Logbook cleanup method improved. Extended function to cleanup off-airport coordinates like 2956N10702E 4831N12255W in addition to empty airport idents.
Optimizations for aircraft trail loading and display for logbook entries.

Map Display

Added warning dialog if aircraft trail is too long after startup as a hint for performance issues. Also, showing warning if trail was truncated after loading a GPX file.
Fixed issue where updated maximum number of trail points was not applied until restart.
Fixed crash when fetching tooltip information for short aircraft trails.
Fixed disappearing flight plans and aircraft trails on high zoom distances or long flight plans. #1126
Fixed display issue where userpoints without type were hidden. Optimized code for userpoint display.
AI/multiplayer aircraft labels now have a … appended if label texts are suppressed due to higher zoom distances Reworked aircraft label code.
Added internal object ID as optional aircraft label for AI/multiplayer. Enable this in options on page Map Labels in branch AI, Multiplayer and Online Client Aircraft.
Fixed wrong bearing for nearest radio navaids of airport in information dock window. Used wrong magnetic declination instead of airport value.
Attempt to fix not updating sun shading. #1125
Optimizations for airspace name and aircraft trail display.

Scenery Library

Fix for crash when reading BGL files having invalid airports.
Fixed COM frequency duplicates in MSFS scenery library with Navigraph navdata update installed. Reload the scenery library to see the fix.
Now bailing out early when reading malformed BGL files from MSFS resulting in endless loop. Example: Broken UWLS.bgl. The same appears with the package microsoft-canada-point-of-interest which is excluded from loading now. Ignore these errors for now.
3.0.7.rc1 to 3.0.8: Now excluding all Microsoft POI libraries from MSFS. These libraries contain POIs modeled as fake airports and are partially not readable. The folder exclusion affects all matching the pattern *\Official\OneStore\microsoft-*-point-of-interest\*.
3.0.7.rc1 to 3.0.8: Fixed issue where heliports or other simple airports in MSFS could not be shown on the map by double clicking in airport search or information window.

Information and Aircraft Progress

Now keeping airport, VOR, NDB, procedure, waypoint, userpoint and logbook information when switching between simulators.
Omitting wrong X-Plane propeller ice indications for jets in user aircraft progress now.
Better formatting in weather and runway information.
Corrected wrong text for bearing from user aircraft. Now showing bearing and distance from user aircraft instead of to.
3.0.7.rc1 to 3.0.8: Fixed crash when trying to show information for incomplete or missing airports or navaids when switching between simulator databases.

User Interface

Added hint and link to clear the map tile cache in add Mapbox style dialog when changing or updating the Mapbox user map.
Fixed issues where coordinates received the wrong sign near Meridian line when using Google coordinates. This resulted in misplaced userpoints or distance rings.
Corrected inconsistent naming for arrival/approach. Now using both in related user interface elements.
Reworked database error reporting to include more information. SQLite scenery library databases open read only now.
Non-blocking dialog windows now remember position. This covers Flight Plan Calculation, Logbook Statistics and Flight Plan Route Description dialog windows.
Resetting all non-blocking windows to default size and center position now when using Reset window layout to avoid windows being lost off-screen. Also, re-centering the main window when resetting layout from window menu.
Added message dialog to Reset all Messages for clarification.
Fixed issue where application was still detected as running when trying to send a command through the command line.
Added -q / --quit command line argument to exit an already running instance.
New icons for 32 and 64 bit Windows builds to easier see the difference if both are installed.
More checks to avoid crashes
3.0.7.rc1 to 3.0.8: Translations updated. Thanks to Flavio, Patrick and Ricardo!
3.0.7.rc1 to 3.0.8: Fixed issue where wind arrows did not show up on some systems.
3.0.7.rc1 to 3.0.8: Removed Dutch, Chinese and Spanish translations translations since these have not been updated for a long time which can cause problems in the user user interface. The resulting issues can range from arrows pointing into the wrong direction to missing texts and numbers. You can still install the translations manually if you wish by downloading the related *.qm files from GitHub - littlenavmap - release/3.0 and saving them besides the other translations in the installation folder. Contact me if you’d like to update a translation or if you would like to create a new one: Contact.

Web Interface

Fixed missing aircraft trail in web interface.
Fixed KML overlays not shown on the web interface.

Improvements and fixes by u-an-i and KOKAProduktion

Default display mode now uses a new navigation method. Click to center the map around the click-spot and use the mouse wheel to zoom in or out.
The plugin Dynamic touch and drag map enables a dynamic map which has smooth scrolling (click-and-move) as well as zooming with the mouse wheel. Note that neither the AI/multiplayer aircraft nor the flight tracks of the user aircraft are shown in this mode. Small display errors like duplicate labels can appear.
Legacy map removed.
More restructuring, performance improvements and updated documentation for the web frontend in general, web API, web plugin API, web toolbar API and web theming CSS templates; useful for developers and people who wish to enhance or modify the web frontend experience.

Installation

Windows installer now checks for running program on install and uninstall to avoid a broken installation.
Changed Linux archive to XZ format for smaller files.
Added Debian installation packages provided by Daniel Buschke tuxmainy. This package installs Little Navmap and Little Navconnect. Little Xpconnect can still be installed using the menu item Install Little Xpconnect in X-Plane plugins in the menu Tools.
Installer has a new icon to avoid confusion with the program file.

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

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Little Navmap 3.0.6 released

Sun, 31 Mar 2024 14:00:00 +0000

Direct Download

► Windows 64-bit Installer (MSFS and X-Plane) - LittleNavmap-win64-3.0.6-Install.exe
► macOS - LittleNavmap-macOS-3.0.6.zip
► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 22.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-22.04-3.0.6.tar.gz

Other Versions:

► Windows 32-bit Installer (only for FSX and P3D) - LittleNavmap-win32-3.0.6-Install.exe
► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04 for Debian or older systems) - LittleNavmap-linux-20.04-3.0.6.tar.gz

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 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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Little Navmap 3.0.5 released

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 14:00:00 +0000

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

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

► Alternative Download Locations

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.

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.

Flight Plan Route Description

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

User Interface

Aircraft Trail

Options

Changed Search

Other

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.

Little Navmap 3.0.4 released

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:00:00 +0000

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

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.

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.

Flight Plan Route Description

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

User Interface

Aircraft Trail

Options

Changed Search

Other

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.

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