WIP Little Navmap (like FsNav for FS2004 and freeware)

mgr

mgr

SOH-CM-2023
Hiya,

Might be some interest here for a neat little program in development at the moment:

littlenavmap_airportoverview.jpg


See this topic for more information:
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/little-navmap-flight-planner-beta-released.438380/
Download and :
https://albar965.github.io/littlenavmap.html
Online manual:
https://albar965.github.io/littlenavmap/help/en/index.html

Still in beta test, yet already functional.

Marcel
 
If this can build flight plans that are compatible with FSX/P3D then I'm all for it. This same function in another program was deemed so revolutionary as to be worth charging a yearly fee. I love nothing more than to see this be successful.
 
Yes ! :jump:

I just discovered it few days ago and I am really impressed by what's allready in.

Not to be missed.

Gérard
 
Hi,

falcon409 said:
If this can build flight plans that are compatible with FSX/P3D then I'm all for it. This same function in another program was deemed so revolutionary as to be worth charging a yearly fee. I love nothing more than to see this be successful.
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It can build and read (and modify) and save the result as default FSX flightplans. Have not seen any other export modes/format so far.

Marcel
 
I have downloaded and installed and am pretty impressed so far. Also just downloaded the 52 page manual and am starting to read it. This program appears to be very detailed.

Tom
 
This program is a gem! The author's LittleNavConnect works with LittleNavMap in a network environment, and is incredibly easy to set-up. Quickly creates a solid handshake between the host (FS) computer and the client (moving map) computer.

falcon409 said:
If this can build flight plans that are compatible with FSX/P3D then I'm all for it.
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Yep, creating, saving, and exporting a .pln works perfectly. And is all easy to do.

Greg
 
Maybe I'm an idjit, but I can't see where to download the manual. Is there a link I'm missing someplace, or something along those lines? Or should I just copy-n-paste it off the page to a pdf file?
Thanks for this program, by the way. I use FSNav in FS9 and love it. I've been hoping for something exactly like this for FSX-SE, and here it is! Thank you very much for all your hard work. I certainly appreciate it, for what it's worth :encouragement: :very_drunk:
Pat☺
 
falcon409 said:
If this can build flight plans that are compatible with FSX/P3D then I'm all for it. This same function in another program was deemed so revolutionary as to be worth charging a yearly fee. I love nothing more than to see this be successful.
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You can build a flight plan in your laptop, any Windows device...and connect Little Navmap to your flight rig.

And the most important thing, it's open Source! So any developer can add more features!
 
PhantomTweak said:
Maybe I'm an idjit, but I can't see where to download the manual. Is there a link I'm missing someplace, or something along those lines? Or should I just copy-n-paste it off the page to a pdf file?
Thanks for this program, by the way. I use FSNav in FS9 and love it. I've been hoping for something exactly like this for FSX-SE, and here it is! Thank you very much for all your hard work. I certainly appreciate it, for what it's worth :encouragement: :very_drunk:
Pat☺
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Click on help and then contents.

Tom
 
Not impressed at all thus far. First of all I can only run it for about 10 minutes before I get a CTD. I ran the database collector prior to opening for use in the sim, yet nothing displays on the map other than the base map. Another thing is that it appears that nothing happens until a flight plan is loaded. No flight plan, it just sits there waiting for you to do something (like build or load a flight plan). As far as I can see you can't just open it, have airports and navaids automatically display and go flying. Of course since nothing from the database shows on the map, you can't build a flight plan.

Some of this frustration comes from having used FSNav and now the free version of FSTramp. Everything loads, all airports, waypoints, navaids, etc are visible and ready to fly. I'm used to this and was hoping, with the ability to build flightplans (at least it sounds like that's possible) in this product I could move away from FSTramp and move up several notches. That isn't the case right now.

I am reading the manual, but none of what I'm looking for seems to be jumping out at me. Going to stick with FSTramp for now until this is refined some more. . .actually a lot more considering what I see currently.
 
falcon409 said:
Not impressed at all thus far. First of all I can only run it for about 10 minutes before I get a CTD. I ran the database collector prior to opening for use in the sim, yet nothing displays on the map other than the base map. Another thing is that it appears that nothing happens until a flight plan is loaded. No flight plan, it just sits there waiting for you to do something (like build or load a flight plan). As far as I can see you can't just open it, have airports and navaids automatically display and go flying. Of course since nothing from the database shows on the map, you can't build a flight plan.

Some of this frustration comes from having used FSNav and now the free version of FSTramp. Everything loads, all airports, waypoints, navaids, etc are visible and ready to fly. I'm used to this and was hoping, with the ability to build flightplans (at least it sounds like that's possible) in this product I could move away from FSTramp and move up several notches. That isn't the case right now.

I am reading the manual, but none of what I'm looking for seems to be jumping out at me. Going to stick with FSTramp for now until this is refined some more. . .actually a lot more considering what I see currently.
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Hi Falcon,

I had it running for a few hours this afternoon with no problem. I clicked on the icons across the top right side of the menu and I had every navaid between Bremerton, KPWT and Boeing field, KBFI. I then set up a flight plan between the two and saved it.

I found the manual pretty comprehensive and 52 pages long. Pretty well written.

Tom
 
THibben said:
Hi Falcon,

I had it running for a few hours this afternoon with no problem. I clicked on the icons across the top right side of the menu and I had every navaid between Bremerton, KPWT and Boeing field, KBFI. I then set up a flight plan between the two and saved it.

I found the manual pretty comprehensive and 52 pages long. Pretty well written.
Tom
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Yep, apparently it is working for most, but nothing I do will show anything more than a basic map. The manual doesn't really shed any light on what the problem might be as it assumes that everything works. It doesn't. . .back to FSTramp for now.
 
I've always found Plan-G to be great, but recently the site seems to be unavailable, so I think I'll give this one a try.


Ian
 
For PlanG I've found that open bike maps are the ones best working at the moment. Still using it to create flight plans and sometimes connect it to P3D to show location and AI planes. Not tried this one yet.
 
falcon409 said:
Yep, apparently it is working for most, but nothing I do will show anything more than a basic map. The manual doesn't really shed any light on what the problem might be as it assumes that everything works. It doesn't. . .back to FSTramp for now.
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Can you post a screenshot?
 
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Hi Falcon,

falcon409 said:
Yep, apparently it is working for most, but nothing I do will show anything more than a basic map. The manual doesn't really shed any light on what the problem might be as it assumes that everything works. It doesn't. . .back to FSTramp for now.
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Could you post the problem on the developer forum-topic. The maker (Alex) is quick in reply and solving things is my experience.
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/little-navmap-flight-planner-beta-released.438380/page-2

Regards,

Marcel
 
Hi All,

I'm the author of this little thing.

Some remarks about questions in this thread:

Yes, it can build flight plans (PLN files, XML format) for FSX, FSXSE, P3D. No other formats supported yet. I'm open for proposals.

The manual is available online as one single HTML page. So printing or converting to PDF should be no problem. It also comes with the program but the online version has some more updates and clarifications.

About features compared to Plan-G:
Plan-G has much more functionality than Little Navmap (Vatsim stuff, airspace boundaries, approaches, traffic, multiplayer aircraft display, user waypoints, etc.).
I used it a lot in the past but had too many problems with freezes as well as lacking airport information (e.g. cannot find out if an airport has lighted runways).


About the development:
There was already a bunch of beta releases, that fixed a lot of problems reading scenery, thanks to a very helpful community.
I think it is getting quite stable now and I will create a final release soon which will not differ much in functionality (but more in number of bugs :mixed-smiley-010:) compared to the beta releases.

The next goal is a release version 1.2 that will have a lot of small improvements. Here is list of tickets that I assigned for this version.

falcon409: I answered you post at fsdeveloper.

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