67. GlossaryΒΆ
- 3D
- X-Plane airport which contains at least one 3D object. May be a fully constructed major airport.
- Add-on airport
FSX/P3D: All scenery data that is found outside of the base flight simulator
Scenery
directory is considered an add-on.X-Plane: All airports in the
Custom Scenery
directory are considered add-on airports and will be highlighted accordingly.- Approach Procedure
- An approach procedure is a series of maneuvers for the transfer of an aircraft in instrument flight conditions from the initial approach to a landing or to a point from which a landing may be made visually. If a flight plan includes a standard arrival procedure (STAR), an approach procedure will normally follow the STAR.
- Arrival Procedure
- Approach, transition or STAR procedure.
- BGL
- A binary file with the extension BGL which is part of a flight simulator scenery containing airport, navaid or airway information. These files can also contain traffic, landclass, elevation or other information which is not relevant for Little Navmap.
- CSV
- Comma-separated values text file.
- DAT
- A text file format used by X-Plane to store airport, navaid and procedure information.
- Departure Procedure
- SID (standard instrument departure) procedure.
- DME
- Distance measuring equipment or a radio navaid.
- Empty airport
- An airport that has no taxiways, no parking positions or gates, no aprons and is not an add-on airport and is not a water airport.
- FACF
- Final approach course fix. A point aligned on the final approach course of an instrument procedure.
- FAF
- Final approach fix. The point where the final approach segment begins on the instrument approach.
- Fix
- This term refers to a waypoint, radio navaid or an calculated point on a procedure.
- Flight Plan Position
- An user-defined waypoint which is part of the flight plan.
- FLP
- Flight plan format used by the X-Plane FMS, Aerosoft Airbus and other add-on aircraft.
- FMS
- X-Plane flight plan format.
- FS9
- Flight Simulator 2004.
- FSX
- Flight Simulator X or Flight Simulator - Steam Edition.
- ft
- Feet. 0.3048 meter.
- GIS
- A geographical information system like Google Earth for example.
- ILS
- Instrument landing system.
- Initial Fix
- This is the first fix of a procedure.
- MAP
- Missed approach point. The point on the final approach which represents the termination of the final approach and the start of the missed approach.
- MSFS
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.
- Navaid
- VOR, VORTAC, TACAN, NDB or waypoint/intersection.
- NDB
- Non directional beacon - radio navaid.
- NM
- Nautical miles. 1.852 km.
- P3D
- Prepar3D v2 to v5.
- Parking
- GA ramp, cargo ramp, fuel box or gate at an airport.
- PLN
- FSX and P3D flight plan format. Can save all information in flight plans using annotations.
- POI
- Point of interest. An userpoint type.
- Procedure
- A STAR, SID or approach and the respective transitions.
- Radio navaid
- VOR, VORTAC, TACAN or NDB.
- Rating
- Airport zero to five star rating depending on facilities.
- Scenery Library Database
- This is an internal database (SQLite) that is created by Little Navmap when reading all the flight simulator BGL or DAT files. It allows fast complex searches and map display.
- SID
- A standard instrument departure is an air traffic control departure procedure that helps to simplify clearance delivery procedures. A SID will keep aircraft away from terrain but it is optimized for air traffic control route of flight and does not necessarily provide the best climb gradient. It provides a balance between terrain and obstacle avoidance, noise abatement and airspace management.
- SimConnect
- A programming interface that allows applications to read and write flight simulator parameters.
- STAR
- A standard terminal arrival is a flight route that usually covers the phase of a flight between the last point of the route filled in the flight plan and the first point of the approach to the airport, normally the initial approach fix (IAF). A STAR connects the en-route phase with the approach phase of the flight.
- Start position
- Used for departure in flight plans. Either runway, helipad, GA ramp, cargo ramp, fuel box or gate.
- TACAN
- Tactical air navigation system - radio navaid used by military aircraft.
- TOC
- Top of climb.
- TOD
- Top of descent.
- VOR
- VHF omni directional radio range - radio navaid.
- VORDME
- VHF omni directional radio range with distance measuring equipment- radio navaid.
- VORTAC
- Co-located VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) beacon and tactical air navigation system (TACAN) beacon.
- Userpoint
- An user-defined waypoint like a bookmark, point of interest or visual reporting point (VRP).
- UTC
- Universal coordinated time. Also: Greenwich time or zulu time.
- VRP
- Visual reporting point for VFR flights. An userpoint type.
- Waypoint
- Navaid defined by coordinates.