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 v3 to v5, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, X-Plane 11 and X-Plane 12.

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 2.8.

Table of Contents

• 1. Acknowledgments
• 2. Donations
• 3. Installation
  • 3.1. Updating
  • 3.2. Windows
  • 3.3. macOS
  • 3.4. Linux
  • 3.5. Additional Programs
  • 3.6. X-Plane Plugin
  • 3.7. Portable Execution
  • 3.8. Multiple Installations
• 4. Start
  • 4.1. First Steps
  • 4.2. How to run a Network Setup
  • 4.3. Recommended things to do after Installing
  • 4.4. Useful Links
• 5. Quick Overview
  • 5.1. Functions
  • 5.2. Context Menus
  • 5.3. Help
• 6. User Interface
  • 6.1. Terms
  • 6.2. File Associations
  • 6.3. Dock Windows
  • 6.4. Tabs
  • 6.5. Toolbars
  • 6.6. Statusbar
  • 6.7. Disabled Buttons and Menu Items
  • 6.8. Warning and Error Messages
  • 6.9. Tables
  • 6.10. Trees
  • 6.11. Context Menus
  • 6.12. Menu Buttons
  • 6.13. Tooltip Help, Help Buttons and Help Menu
  • 6.14. Window Title
  • 6.15. Information and Simulator Aircraft Text
  • 6.16. Activating and raising Windows and Tabs
  • 6.17. Tear off Dropdown Menus
  • 6.18. Copy and Paste
  • 6.19. Translation and Locale
  • 6.20. Map Legend
  • 6.21. Airport Rating
• 7. Dock Windows
  • 7.1. Dock Windows
  • 7.2. Dock Window Stacks
• 8. Tabs
  • 8.1. Context Menu Tabbar
  • 8.2. Mouse actions
  • 8.3. Stacked Dock Window Tabs
• 9. Main Menu and Toolbars
  • 9.1. File Menu
  • 9.2. Flight Plan Menu
  • 9.3. Map Menu
  • 9.4. View Menu
  • 9.5. Weather Menu
  • 9.6. Userpoint Menu
  • 9.7. Logbook Menu
  • 9.8. Aircraft Menu
  • 9.9. Scenery Library Menu
  • 9.10. Tools Menu
  • 9.11. Window Menu
  • 9.12. Help Menu
• 10. Statusbar
• 11. Directories
• 12. Map Display
  • 12.1. Map Layers
  • 12.2. Moving
  • 12.3. Mouse Clicks
  • 12.4. Mouse Click Hotspots
  • 12.5. Mouse Clicks and Modifiers
  • 12.6. Aircraft
  • 12.7. Tooltips
  • 12.8. Highlights
  • 12.9. Flight Plan
  • 12.10. Airport Diagram
  • 12.11. Map Projection
  • 12.12. Map Themes
  • 12.13. Context Menu Map
• 13. Legend
  • 13.1. Mouse Clicks
  • 13.2. Key Commands
  • 13.3. Highlights
  • 13.4. Logbook Preview
  • 13.5. User Features
  • 13.6. Compass Rose
  • 13.7. Aircraft and Ships
  • 13.8. Airports
  • 13.9. Airport Diagram
  • 13.10. Navaids
  • 13.11. Flight Plan
  • 13.12. Procedures
  • 13.13. Elevation Profile
  • 13.14. Airport Traffic Pattern
  • 13.15. Holding
  • 13.16. MORA Grid
  • 13.17. Airport Weather
  • 13.18. Winds Aloft
• 14. Traffic Patterns
  • 14.1. Create Traffic Pattern
• 15. Holdings
  • 15.1. Create Holding
• 16. Minimum Sector Altitude
• 17. Compass Rose
  • 17.1. Indicators
  • 17.2. Examples
• 18. Sun Shading
  • 18.1. Time Sources
  • 18.2. Set User defined Time
• 19. Map Image Export
• 20. Jump to Coordinates
• 21. Measure Distance
• 22. Range Rings
• 23. Elevation Profile
  • 23.1. Top Label
  • 23.2. Tooltip Label
  • 23.3. Zoom Sliders
  • 23.4. Mouse Movement
  • 23.5. Keyboard Movement
  • 23.6. Elevation Profile Display Options
  • 23.7. Context Menu Elevation Profile
  • 23.8. Profile Display
  • 23.9. Top of Climb and Top of Descent Paths
  • 23.10. Elevation Data
• 24. Search
  • 24.1. Text filters
  • 24.2. Airport and Navaid Ident Text filters
  • 24.3. Tri state checkboxes
  • 24.4. Menu Button
  • 24.5. Distance search
  • 24.6. Random Flight in Airport Search
  • 24.7. Ident in Airport Search
  • 24.8. Country, State/Province and City in Airport Search
  • 24.9. Override in Airport Search
  • 24.10. Search Result Table View
  • 24.11. Top Buttons
  • 24.12. Context Menu Search
• 25. Search Procedures
  • 25.1. Preview and Highlights
  • 25.2. Procedure Tree
  • 25.3. Top Buttons
  • 25.4. Context Menu Procedures
• 26. Userpoints
  • 26.1. Userpoint Search
  • 26.2. Add Userpoints
  • 26.3. Edit Userpoints
  • 26.4. Types
  • 26.5. CSV Data Format
  • 26.6. X-Plane user_fix.dat Data Format
  • 26.7. Garmin user.wpt Data Format
  • 26.8. Database Backup Files
• 27. Logbook
  • 27.1. Create Logbook Entries
  • 27.2. Logbook Files
  • 27.3. Logbook Search
  • 27.4. Add Logbook Entry
  • 27.5. Edit Logbook Entry
  • 27.6. Logbook Statistics
  • 27.7. Import and Export
  • 27.8. X-Plane Import
  • 27.9. Database Backup Files
  • 27.10. CSV Data Format
• 28. Online Networks
  • 28.1. Simulator and Online Aircraft Duplicates
  • 28.2. Map Display
  • 28.3. Online Search
• 29. Information
  • 29.1. General
  • 29.2. Dock Window and Tabs
  • 29.3. Links
  • 29.4. Scenery Information
  • 29.5. Tabs in Information Dock Window
  • 29.6. Tabs in Simulator Aircraft Dock Window
• 30. Flight Planning
  • 30.1. Flight Plans
  • 30.2. Header
  • 30.3. Flight Plan Table
  • 30.4. Selected Flight Plan Legs Footer
  • 30.5. Error Messages Footer
  • 30.6. Mouse Clicks
  • 30.7. Top Buttons and Input Fields
  • 30.8. Context Menu Flight Plan
  • 30.9. Flight Plan Remarks
• 31. User Aircraft Centering
• 32. Map Flight Plan Editing
• 33. Procedures
  • 33.1. General
  • 33.2. Set Departure Runway and Set Destination Runway
  • 33.3. Inserting a Procedure into a Flight Plan
  • 33.4. Deleting a Procedure from a Flight Plan
  • 33.5. Limitations when editing a flight plan with procedures
  • 33.6. Flying Procedures
  • 33.7. Special Leg Types
  • 33.8. Fix Types in a Procedure
  • 33.9. Altitude and Speed Restrictions
  • 33.10. Related Navaids
  • 33.11. Missed Approaches
  • 33.12. Leg Highlights on the Map
  • 33.13. Invalid Data
• 34. Departure and Destination Runway
  • 34.1. Limitations
  • 34.2. Departure Runway
  • 34.3. Destination Runway
• 35. Select Start Position
• 36. Runway Selection
• 37. Tracks
  • 37.1. Download
  • 37.2. Map Display and Information
  • 37.3. Flight Plan Calculation and Editing
  • 37.4. Export
• 38. Edit Flight Plan Position
  • 38.1. Ident
  • 38.2. Region
  • 38.3. Name
  • 38.4. Remarks
  • 38.5. Latitude and Longitude
• 39. Edit Flight Plan Remarks
  • 39.1. Header
  • 39.2. Remarks
• 40. Flight Plan Calculation
  • 40.1. Window Header
  • 40.2. Calculate from departure to destination
  • 40.3. Calculate for selection in flight plan table
  • 40.4. Cruise altitude for calculation
  • 40.5. Adjust
  • 40.6. Airways
  • 40.7. Radio Navaids
  • 40.8. Direct
  • 40.9. Reverse
  • 40.10. Calculate
  • 40.11. Close
  • 40.12. Help
• 41. Flight Plan Route Description
  • 41.1. Input Field
  • 41.2. Reading
  • 41.3. Buttons
  • 41.4. Airport idents
  • 41.5. Format
  • 41.6. Flight Plan Description Examples
• 42. Flight Plan Formats
  • 42.1. Little Navmap LNMPLN Format
  • 42.2. User Waypoint Names
  • 42.3. Garmin Export Issues
  • 42.4. Flight Plan Export Formats
  • 42.5. Export Formats
  • 42.6. Notes about the Garmin Formats GFP and FPL
• 43. Flight Plan Multiexport
  • 43.1. Quick Setup
  • 43.2. File Names
  • 43.3. Exporting Little Navmap native flight plan format
  • 43.4. Path Errors
  • 43.5. Running Multiexport
  • 43.6. Multiexport Options Dialog
  • 43.7. Context Menu
• 44. Flight Plan Online Network Export
  • 44.1. Buttons
• 45. Open Flight Plan from SimBrief
  • 45.1. Download a Flight Plan
  • 45.2. How to get the Login Information
• 46. Export Flight Plan to SimBrief
• 47. Aircraft Performance
  • 47.1. Files
  • 47.2. Wind
  • 47.3. Tab Fuel Report
• 48. Aircraft Performance Edit
  • 48.1. Buttons
  • 48.2. Tab Aircraft
  • 48.3. Tab Performance
  • 48.4. Tab Remarks
• 49. Aircraft Performance Collection
  • 49.1. Quick How To
  • 49.2. Tab Current Performance
• 50. Aircraft Performance Merge
  • 50.1. Operations
  • 50.2. Buttons
• 51. Load Scenery Library
  • 51.1. Quick Start
  • 51.2. Navdata Updates
  • 51.3. Dialog Load Scenery Library
  • 51.4. Linking Scenery
  • 51.5. Add-On Airports
  • 51.6. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Airports and Navdata
  • 51.7. X-Plane Airports and Navdata
  • 51.8. Magnetic Declination
• 52. Loading Airspaces
  • 52.1. FSX, Prepar3D and MSFS Airspaces
  • 52.2. Airspace Formats
  • 52.3. X-Plane Airspaces
  • 52.4. User Airspaces
  • 52.5. Online Airspaces
• 53. Navigation Databases
  • 53.1. Use Navigraph for all Features
  • 53.2. Use Navigraph for Navaids and Procedures
  • 53.3. Do not use Navigraph Database
• 54. Connecting to a Flight Simulator
  • 54.1. Local Connection
  • 54.2. Remote Connection
  • 54.3. Connect Dialog
• 55. Options
  • 55.1. Startup and Update
  • 55.2. User Interface
  • 55.3. Display and Text
  • 55.4. Units
  • 55.5. Map
  • 55.6. Map Navigation
  • 55.7. Map Display
  • 55.8. Map Display Flight Plan
  • 55.9. Map Display User
  • 55.10. Map Display Labels
  • 55.11. Map Display Keys
  • 55.12. Map Display Online
  • 55.13. Simulator Aircraft
  • 55.14. Flight Plan
  • 55.15. Weather
  • 55.16. Weather Files
  • 55.17. Online Flying
  • 55.18. Web Server
  • 55.19. Cache and Files
  • 55.20. Scenery Library Database
• 56. Window Layout
  • 56.1. Saving and Loading Layouts
  • 56.2. Reset Layout
  • 56.3. Fullscreen
• 57. Weather
  • 57.1. Weather Sources
  • 57.2. Airport Weather
  • 57.3. Winds Aloft
  • 57.4. Tooltips
• 58. Printing
  • 58.1. Print Map
  • 58.2. Print Flight Plan
• 59. Reset all for a new Flight
• 60. Updates
  • 60.1. Notification Dialog
  • 60.2. Options
• 61. Running without Flight Simulator Installation
• 62. Web Server
  • 62.1. Web Page
  • 62.2. Web Developers
• 63. Tutorials
  • 63.1. General
  • 63.2. Quick Start
  • 63.3. Tutorials
• 64. Tutorial - Building a VFR Flight Plan
  • 64.1. General
  • 64.2. Prepare Flight
  • 64.3. Default Aircraft Performance
  • 64.4. Departure Airport
  • 64.5. En-Route Waypoints
  • 64.6. Destination Airport
  • 64.7. Cruise Altitude
  • 64.8. Airspaces
  • 64.9. Saving
  • 64.10. Flying
  • 64.11. Looking at Places while Flying
• 65. Tutorial - Building an IFR Flight Plan with Approach Procedures
  • 65.1. Prepare Flight
  • 65.2. Default Aircraft Performance
  • 65.3. Cleanup Search
  • 65.4. Assign Departure
  • 65.5. Search for Destination
  • 65.6. Select an Approach Procedure
  • 65.7. Calculate a Flight Plan
  • 65.8. Airspaces
  • 65.9. Saving
  • 65.10. Flying
  • 65.11. Top of Descent
  • 65.12. Changing Procedures
  • 65.13. Going Missed
• 66. Tutorial - Creating an Aircraft Performance Profile
  • 66.1. Flight Plan
  • 66.2. Aircraft Performance
• 67. Coordinate Formats
  • 67.1. General
  • 67.2. Signed Decimal Formats
  • 67.3. Other Formats
  • 67.4. Examples
• 68. Magnetic Declination
• 69. Remarks
• 70. Keyboard Shortcuts
  • 70.1. Main Menu
  • 70.2. Context Menus
• 71. Network Setup
  • 71.1. How to Prepare a Network Setup
  • 71.2. Weather
  • 71.3. Flying in a network setup
• 72. Little Xpconnect
  • 72.1. Menu
  • 72.2. Compatibility Error
  • 72.3. Installation
  • 72.4. macOS Architectures
  • 72.5. Clearing the Quarantine Flag on macOS
  • 72.6. Files
• 73. Customizing General
  • 73.1. Version
  • 73.2. GUI
  • 73.3. Map Display
  • 73.4. Icons
• 74. Map Themes
  • 74.1. Installing Map Themes
  • 74.2. Creating Map Themes
• 75. Files
  • 75.1. Backups
  • 75.2. Logs
  • 75.3. Trails
  • 75.4. Configuration
  • 75.5. Disk Cache
  • 75.6. Databases
  • 75.7. Little Navmap Flight Plan File Format
  • 75.8. Aircraft Performance File Format
• 76. Tips and Tricks
  • 76.1. Show all Navaid Ranges of a Flight Plan
  • 76.2. Use the measurement lines to get a VOR Radial Intersection
  • 76.3. Search for Add-On Airports
  • 76.4. Use the Search Function to plan a Round the World Trip
• 77. Command Line Options
  • 77.1. Options
• 78. Appendix
  • 78.1. Tips for slow Computers
  • 78.2. Troubleshoot
  • 78.3. Known Problems and Frequently asked Questions
  • 78.4. How to report a Bug
• 79. Glossary
• 80. License

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