Notes

This is a test release of Little Navmap that adds support for MSFS 2024 and fixes other small
issues. Please read the release notes below.

Note that not all reported issues were fixed so far. See
Release 3.0.13. This will be done in the next
releases.

Translations and user manual are not yet updated.

The MSFS 2024 Steam installation should work but is untested. Do not hesitate to give feedback if
you see issues.

Version 3.0.13.beta1

Changes from 3.0.12 to 3.0.13.beta1

MSFS 2024 Scenery Library #1198

There are limitations since Little Navmap has to load the complete scenery library through the MSFS
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
compiler implementation.

Note that some of theses limitations can only be fixed by Asobo.

The simulator has to run to load the scenery library.
The simulator connection in Little Navmap has to be paused during loading. You will not see
aircraft updates in Little Navmap while loading.
Loading airports and navaids takes about 10 minutes. Future optimizations are planned.
Detection of add-on airports is not possible. Right click on an airport icon on the map, the
airport search result table or the flight plan table and use the function Mark Airport as add-on
which will add a userpoint on top of an airport marking it as an add-on.
Airports have no city, country or state/province names.
Airport names are always English. Translations or exonyms are not available.
Neither closed runways nor closed airports can be recognised.
About 140 ILS of 4100 are not connected to runways and therefore won't be shown in the Little Navmap
elevation profile. Example: LOWI OEV heading West.
Runways used by procedures which are present at an airport do not always match. Example: EDDK, LSZR,
LSZN, ENSB, EKRN, LFLO, LOWK and more where runways have been renamed recently in the real world.
The airport Istanbul Intl (LTFM) is missing in the stock data. Little Navmap will show the airport
if you install an add-on.
A workaround has to be used to detect if an airport has lighted runways or not since this
information is missing in the SimConnect interface. This is not 100 percent reliable.
MSFS 2020 provides around 42000 airports while MSFS 2024 has almost 84000 airports. Half of these
are heliports.
Airspaces are not available through SimConnect. You can use other sources for airspaces. See chapter
Little Navmap User Manual - Loading Airspaces
for more information and links to public airspace sources.
Airport aprons are not available, only taxiways.
Airline codes for parking are missing.
Navaids like waypoints, VOR, NDB or ILS can only be loaded if they are connected to a procedure,
a runway or an airway. This means that waypoints in the North Atlantic needed for Oceanic tracks
will be missing, for example. LOWI localizer OEJ heading East cannot be loaded and is missing on
the map. As a result, around 70000 navaids are missing from the map due to SimConnect limitations,
which do not allow the world-wide enumeration of navaids.
Full SID and STAR are duplicated for each runway. This will be fixed in one of the next releases
of Little Navmap and does not affect functionality.
Note that all fields in the load scenery library dialog are now disabled when selecting MSFS 2024
since no path is used.
A warning dialog is shown when trying to compile MSFS 2024 with the 32-bit build.
Note that loading airports via SimConnect allows to read encrypted add-on airports. You will not
see the notification message about encrypted airports anymore for MSFS 2024.

MSFS 2024 Other

Added detection of MSFS 2024 Steam and Microsoft Store installations. Detection of Steam
installations is untested but should work.
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. #1216
The keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+B is now used for MSFS 2020 PLN files. #1216
Note that detailed user or AI/multiplayer aircraft descriptions are not available in MSFS 2024
since aircraft files are not accessible.

MSFS Simulators

Added TACAN and VORTAC station types for all MSFS simulators including display of channel.
Removing airport vehicles now from all MSFS simulator AI traffic.
Now flagging all VOR and NDB waypoints as artificial in FSX, P3D and MSFS simulators to hide them
in Little Navmap. These are not real waypoints and are used only internally to build the
airway and routing network system.
Now omitting duplicate waypoints with invalid regions in all MSFS simulators. Also using better
duplicate waypoint removal for MSFS 2020 now.
Added exclusion of traffic and AIRAC BGL from loading for MSFS 2020 to avoid error messages in
the log.

Other

Fixed issue where ILS could not be found for procedure 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 11/12 FMS exported FMS format had departure and destination wrongly swapped.
Fixed crash when selecting airport as alternate in airport search result table or in logbook
where Add as Alternate was wrongly enabled despite having an empty route. #1222
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
Removed AUSOTS track system since it is discontinued. Now uses preferred routes.
Fixed 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.
Fixed wrong transponder display 0000 shown for ships and other vehicles. Now omitted.
Added map theme MapBox Streets. Remove an already installed map theme if you have one.
Otherwise, Little Navmap will show error messages hinting you to do so.
Added airway type description to flight plan table configuration to make airway suffixes
L (low) and H (high) clearer.
Updated to World Magnetic Model WMM2025 coefficients for more accurate declination calculation
when using X-Plane and MSFS simulators.
ILS feather geometry is now using a minimum width of 2 degrees to avoid ILS feathers shown as
lines in all simulators.
Improved on-ground approximation to avoid wrong takeoff detection when hovering with helicopters.
Fixed more disambiguations for translation texts to avoid wrong translations.
Changed certain texts to be untranslatable to avoid issues with database indicators.
Added disambiguations for translation texts to avoid same translation for procedure
restrictions and airway types, for example.
Updated translation files and add Chinese back again.

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

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