Airport Navigator

Plugin for X-Plane Flight Simulator

Version 1.5.3 is for X-Plane 9, 10 & 11.

The Airport Navigator plugin displays the following overlaid information on the X-Plane screen:
• ICAO of the selected airport and it's altitude (white in center)
• Runway & Heli-pads (blue)
• Taxiway, Aprons (yellow)
• Ramp start positions (green) + optional ramp name (white)
• Taxiway network (magenta) + optional taxiway name (white)
• Optional radio & ILS frequencies in separate overlay
• and most importantly: your aircraft and it's heading relative to the airport (red)

The picture shows an airport with format 850 apt.dat. It also loads and shows layouts in the older
810 format but they look not so nice because taxiways/aprons are constructed of many small
rectangles.
Hot keys are configurable using X-Planes build-in HotkeyAdmin and configuration is saved when
you quit. Position, zoom factor/size and background of the map display can be set independandly
for every aircraft and gets saved when a new aircraft is loaded.

Installation
to install, put the whole Airport-Navigator folder in to the "plugins" folder of your X-Plane
installation. Done.

Usage
The plugin gets initialized during the start of X-Plane. You will see a message like below for some
time on screen while the plugin scans the X-Plane apt.dat and all custom sceneries to get a list of all
available airports. This can take from a couple of seconds to a minute, it depends on the number of
custom sceneries and probably even more on the speed of your hard drive. X-Plane might appear to
be not responding during that time, please be patient.

During the load the plugin will write some progress information into the file Log.txt.

Once X-Plane has started you find an entry in the "Plugins" menu.

Plugin control
The main control method is hotkeys. Some functions, mainly switches, are available only via the
plugins menu. You can also map commands through Joystick & keyboard settings.

The hotkeys
CTRL + SHIFT + M Toggle map display on/off

CTRL + SHIFT + PageUp Zoom in

CTRL + SHIFT + PageDn Zoom out
CTRL + SHIFT + End Reset zoom
CTRL + SHIFT + Home Re-center map

CTRL + SHIFT + Left Move the map around

CTRL + SHIFT + Right "
CTRL + SHIFT + Up "
CTRL + SHIFT + Down "

CTRL + SHIFT + A Toggle frequencies

CTRL + SHIFT + R Toggle ramp info
CTRL + SHIFT + T Toggle taxiway info
You can remap hotkeys via the Plugin-Admin Hotkey Settings screen:

The plugins menu

Right after X-Plane starts the Plugin menu looks like this:
Map is hidden, mode is "nearest airport", tracking is off.
Use this menu to show or hide the map (same as the hotkey).
Use this menu to switch the map to the FMS destination, ICAO
or nearest airport.

“use ICAO” is on some airports needed to lock the map to one specific
airport if there is also a Helicopter airport close by with it's own ICAO.

Track plane is a toggle that turns tracking on or off. If set to on

and mode is "nearest" then the map will continuously update to
show a new airport if it comes in range (closer than the last one).
The next three menu entries toggle between different styles of
background color. Choose the one that fits your needs best. The
type of background and the size and position get saved per
aircraft.
You can toggle the comm, ramp & taxi from the menu or via
hotkeys.
Author
Jens Ansorg

Many thanks to
The SDK developers. Sandy and Jonathan for coding help and tips. The people from x-plane.de for
continuous beta testing.

Source code
The plugin code is GPL and available at http://svn2.assembla.com/svn/x-plane-apt-nav

Plugin download
https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/34155-airport-navigator/

History
1.5.3 - Draw aircraft last.
1.5.2 - Fix taxiway name bug.
1.5.1 - Add 8.33 kHz radio frequency support.
1.5.0 - Fix radio frequency bug.
1.4.9 - Reduce clutter by removing words gate, ramp, parking, apron &
stand, if present.
1.4.8 - Improve radio frequency alignment.
1.4.7 - Correct the way arrow keys work.
1.4.6 - Fix XP11.01b1 abend
1.4.5 - Fix abend building preferences file path
1.4.4 - Add dataref commands
1.4.3 - XP11 don't display ground service nodes
1.4.2 - display aircraft as a V shape
1.4.1 - add ILS info to frequency list
1.4.0 - make x-plane 11 compliant
1.3.9 - display ILS frequency on map
1.3.8 - removed “use FMS departure” & added “use ICAO”
1.3.7 - fix missing runway names caused by next airport being a heliport
eg KRDU
1.3.6 - improve plugin load time
1.3.5 - read scenery_packs.ini when available
1.3.4 - add taxiway network
1.3.3 - add ramp info from apt.dat
1.3.2 - add row code 1300 (ramp start) to apt.dat parser
1.3.1 - fix crash bug in frequency code
1.3.0 - added frequencies overlay, X-Plane 10 64bit
1.1.3 - reworked backgrounds, fixed display of Heli airports,
more settings get saved
1.1.2 - fix for mac version
1.1.0 - settings saving, linux compatibility fix
1.0.2 - fixed ICAO position
- added menu toggle for transparent background
1.0.1 - initial public release