Little Navmap User Manual

Little Navmap is a free open source flight planner, navigation tool, moving map, airport search and airport information system for Flight Simulator X, Flight Simulator - Steam Edition, Prepar3D v2 to v5, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and X-Plane 11.

More about my projects at www.littlenavmap.org. Support forum at AVSIM.

You can get the latest version of this manual in different formats from here: User Manuals

Do not use this program for real world navigation.

This user manual is for Little Navmap versions 2.6.

Table of Contents

• 1. Acknowledgments
• 2. Donations
• 3. Installation
  • 3.1. Updating
  • 3.2. Windows
  • 3.3. macOS
  • 3.4. Linux
  • 3.5. X-Plane Plugin
  • 3.6. Additional Programs
  • 3.7. Multiple Installations
• 4. Quick Overview
• 5. Start
  • 5.1. First Steps
  • 5.2. Useful Links
• 6. Introduction
  • 6.1. Creating Recommended Directories for Files
  • 6.2. Loading the Scenery Database
  • 6.3. Connecting to a Simulator
  • 6.4. Recommended things to do after Installing
  • 6.5. How to run a Network Setup
  • 6.6. User Interface
  • 6.7. Navdata Updates
• 7. Dock Windows
• 8. Tabs
  • 8.1. Context Menu Tabbar
  • 8.2. Mouse actions
  • 8.3. Stacked Dock Window Tabs
• 9. Menus and Toolbars
  • 9.1. Tear off Dropdown Menus
  • 9.2. File Menu
  • 9.3. Flight Plan Menu
  • 9.4. Map Menu
  • 9.5. View Menu
  • 9.6. Weather Menu
  • 9.7. Userpoint Menu
  • 9.8. Logbook Menu
  • 9.9. Aircraft Menu
  • 9.10. Scenery Library Menu
  • 9.11. Tools Menu
  • 9.12. Window Menu
  • 9.13. Help Menu
• 10. Statusbar
• 11. Directories
• 12. Map Display
  • 12.1. Moving
  • 12.2. Mouse Clicks
  • 12.3. Mouse Click Hotspots
  • 12.4. Mouse Clicks and Modifiers
  • 12.5. Aircraft
  • 12.6. Tooltips
  • 12.7. Highlights
  • 12.8. Flight Plan
  • 12.9. Airport Diagram
  • 12.10. Context Menu Map
• 13. Legend
  • 13.1. Mouse Clicks
  • 13.2. Key Commands
  • 13.3. Highlights and User Features
  • 13.4. Logbook Preview
  • 13.5. Compass Rose
  • 13.6. Aircraft and Ships
  • 13.7. Airports
  • 13.8. Navaids
  • 13.9. Procedures
  • 13.10. Airport Diagram
  • 13.11. Elevation Profile
  • 13.12. Airport Traffic Pattern
  • 13.13. Holding
  • 13.14. MORA Grid
  • 13.15. Airport Weather
  • 13.16. Winds Aloft
• 14. Traffic Patterns
  • 14.1. Create Traffic Pattern
• 15. Holdings
  • 15.1. Create Holding
• 16. Compass Rose
  • 16.1. Indicators
  • 16.2. Examples
• 17. Sun Shading
  • 17.1. Time Sources
  • 17.2. Set User defined Time
• 18. Map Image Export
• 19. Elevation Profile
  • 19.1. Top Label
  • 19.2. Tooltip Label
  • 19.3. Bottom Label
  • 19.4. Zoom Sliders
  • 19.5. Mouse Movement
  • 19.6. Keyboard Movement
  • 19.7. Context Menu Elevation Profile
  • 19.8. Profile Display
  • 19.9. Top of Climb and Top of Descent Paths
  • 19.10. Elevation Data
• 20. Search
  • 20.1. Text filters
  • 20.2. Tri state checkboxes
  • 20.3. Distance search
  • 20.4. Ident in Airport Search
  • 20.5. Override in Airport Search
  • 20.6. Search Result Table View
  • 20.7. Top Buttons
  • 20.8. Context Menu Search
• 21. Search Procedures
  • 21.1. Procedure Tree
  • 21.2. Top Buttons
  • 21.3. Context Menu Procedures
• 22. Userpoints
  • 22.1. User-defined Waypoint Search
  • 22.2. Add Userpoints
  • 22.3. Edit Userpoints
  • 22.4. Types
  • 22.5. CSV Data Format
  • 22.6. X-Plane user_fix.dat Data Format
  • 22.7. Garmin user.wpt Data Format
  • 22.8. Database Backup Files
• 23. Logbook
  • 23.1. Logbook Files
  • 23.2. Logbook Search
  • 23.3. Add Logbook Entry
  • 23.4. Edit Logbook Entry
  • 23.5. Logbook Statistics
  • 23.6. Import and Export
  • 23.7. X-Plane Import
  • 23.8. Conversion
  • 23.9. Database Backup Files
  • 23.10. CSV Data Format
• 24. Online Networks
  • 24.1. Simulator and Online Aircraft Duplicates
  • 24.2. Map Display
  • 24.3. Online Search
• 25. Information
  • 25.1. General
  • 25.2. Dock Window and Tabs
  • 25.3. Links
  • 25.4. Scenery Information
  • 25.5. Tabs in Information Dock Window
  • 25.6. Tabs in Simulator Aircraft Dock Window
• 26. Legend Dock Window
• 27. Flight Planning
  • 27.1. Upper Part
  • 27.2. Flight Plan Table
  • 27.3. Magnetic Declination
  • 27.4. Mouse Clicks
  • 27.5. Top Buttons
  • 27.6. Context Menu Flight Plan
  • 27.7. Flight Plan Remarks
• 28. Map Flight Plan Editing
• 29. Procedures
  • 29.1. General
  • 29.2. Create Approach
  • 29.3. Inserting a Procedure into a Flight Plan
  • 29.4. Deleting a Procedure from a Flight Plan
  • 29.5. Limitations when editing a flight plan with procedures
  • 29.6. Flying Procedures
  • 29.7. Special Leg Types
  • 29.8. Fix Types in a Procedure
  • 29.9. Altitude and Speed Restrictions
  • 29.10. Related Navaids
  • 29.11. Missed Approaches
  • 29.12. Leg Highlights on the Map
  • 29.13. Invalid Data
• 30. User Defined Approach
  • 30.1. Waypoints
  • 30.2. Create Approach
• 31. Tracks
  • 31.1. Download
  • 31.2. Map Display and Information
  • 31.3. Flight Plan Calculation and Editing
  • 31.4. Export
• 32. Edit Flight Plan Position
  • 32.1. Ident
  • 32.2. Region
  • 32.3. Name
  • 32.4. Remarks
  • 32.5. Latitude and Longitude
• 33. Edit Flight Plan Remarks
  • 33.1. Header
  • 33.2. Remarks
• 34. Flight Plan Route Calculation
  • 34.1. Window Header
  • 34.2. Calculate from departure to destination
  • 34.3. Calculate for selection in flight plan table
  • 34.4. Cruise Altitude
  • 34.5. Adjust
  • 34.6. Airways
  • 34.7. Radio Navaids
  • 34.8. Direct
  • 34.9. Reverse
  • 34.10. Calculate
• 35. Flight Plan Route Description
  • 35.1. Buttons
  • 35.2. Airport idents
  • 35.3. Format
  • 35.4. Flight Plan Description Examples
• 36. Flight Plan Formats
  • 36.1. Little Navmap LNMPLN Format
  • 36.2. Flight Plan Export Formats
  • 36.3. User Waypoint Names
  • 36.4. Formats
  • 36.5. Notes about the Garmin Formats GFP and FPL
• 37. Flight Plan Multiexport
  • 37.1. Quick Setup
  • 37.2. File Names
  • 37.3. Exporting Little Navmap native flight plan format
  • 37.4. Path Errors
  • 37.5. Running Multiexport
  • 37.6. Multiexport Options Dialog
  • 37.7. Context Menu
• 38. Flight Plan Online Network Export
  • 38.1. Buttons
• 39. Aircraft Performance
  • 39.1. Files
  • 39.2. Wind
  • 39.3. Tab Fuel Report
• 40. Aircraft Performance Edit
  • 40.1. Buttons
  • 40.2. Tab Aircraft
  • 40.3. Tab Performance
  • 40.4. Tab Remarks
• 41. Aircraft Performance Collection
  • 41.1. Quick How To
  • 41.2. Tab Current Performance
• 42. Aircraft Performance Merge
  • 42.1. Operations
  • 42.2. Buttons
• 43. Load Scenery Library
  • 43.1. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Airports and Navdata
  • 43.2. X-Plane Airports and Navdata
  • 43.3. Load Scenery Library Options
  • 43.4. Magnetic Declination
• 44. Navigation Databases
  • 44.1. Use Navigraph for all Features
  • 44.2. Use Navigraph for Navaids and Procedures
  • 44.3. Do not use Navigraph Database
• 45. Connecting to a Flight Simulator
  • 45.1. Local Connection
  • 45.2. Remote Connection
  • 45.3. Connect Dialog Options
• 46. Options
  • 46.1. Startup and Update
  • 46.2. User Interface
  • 46.3. Display and Text
  • 46.4. Map
  • 46.5. Map Navigation
  • 46.6. Map Display
  • 46.7. Map Display 2
  • 46.8. Map Display Online
  • 46.9. Units
  • 46.10. Simulator Aircraft
  • 46.11. Flight Plan
  • 46.12. Weather
  • 46.13. Weather Files
  • 46.14. Online Flying
  • 46.15. Web Server
  • 46.16. Cache and Files
  • 46.17. Scenery Library Database
• 47. Window Layout
  • 47.1. Saving and Loading Layouts
  • 47.2. Reset Layout
  • 47.3. Fullscreen
• 48. Weather
  • 48.1. Weather Sources
  • 48.2. Airport Weather
  • 48.3. Winds Aloft
  • 48.4. Tooltips
• 49. Printing
  • 49.1. Print Map
  • 49.2. Print Flight Plan
• 50. Reset all for a new Flight
• 51. Checking for Updates
  • 51.1. Notification Dialog
  • 51.2. Options
• 52. Running without Flight Simulator Installation
• 53. Web Server
  • 53.1. Web Page
  • 53.2. Web Developers
• 54. Tutorials
  • 54.1. General
  • 54.2. Quick Start
  • 54.3. Tutorials
• 55. Tutorial - Building a VFR Flight Plan
  • 55.1. General
  • 55.2. Prepare Flight
  • 55.3. Default Aircraft Performance
  • 55.4. Departure Airport
  • 55.5. En-Route Waypoints
  • 55.6. Destination Airport
  • 55.7. Cruise Altitude
  • 55.8. Airspaces
  • 55.9. Saving
  • 55.10. Flying
  • 55.11. Looking at Places while Flying
• 56. Tutorial - Building an IFR Flight Plan with Approach Procedures
  • 56.1. Prepare Flight
  • 56.2. Default Aircraft Performance
  • 56.3. Cleanup Search
  • 56.4. Assign Departure
  • 56.5. Search for Destination
  • 56.6. Select an Approach Procedure
  • 56.7. Calculate a Flight Plan
  • 56.8. Airspaces
  • 56.9. Saving
  • 56.10. Flying
  • 56.11. Top of Descent
  • 56.12. Changing Procedures
  • 56.13. Going Missed
• 57. Tutorial - Creating an Aircraft Performance Profile
  • 57.1. Flight Plan
  • 57.2. Aircraft Performance
• 58. Coordinate Formats
  • 58.1. General
  • 58.2. Signed Decimal Formats
  • 58.3. Other Formats
  • 58.4. Examples
• 59. Remarks
• 60. Keyboard Shortcuts
  • 60.1. Main Menu
  • 60.2. Context Menus
• 61. Network Setup
  • 61.1. How to Prepare a Network Setup
  • 61.2. Flying in a network setup
• 62. Customizing General
  • 62.1. Version
  • 62.2. GUI
  • 62.3. Map Display
  • 62.4. Icons
• 63. Creating Map Themes
• 64. Files
  • 64.1. Logs
  • 64.2. Configuration
  • 64.3. Disk Cache
  • 64.4. Databases
  • 64.5. Little Navmap Flight Plan File Format
  • 64.6. Aircraft Performance File Format
  • 64.7. Obsolete Formats
• 65. Tips and Tricks
  • 65.1. Show all Navaid Ranges of a Flight Plan
  • 65.2. Use the measurement lines to get a VOR Radial Intersection
  • 65.3. Search for Add-On Airports
  • 65.4. Use the Search Function to plan a Round the World Trip
• 66. Appendix
  • 66.1. Tips for old and slow Computers
  • 66.2. Troubleshoot
  • 66.3. Known Problems
  • 66.4. How to report a Bug
• 67. Glossary
• 68. License

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Version 2.6.17. Last updated on Oct 17, 2021.