Version 2.6.17

[albar965]

This release adapts Little Navmap to the latest MSFS changes that cause crashes when loading the scenery library, as well as other fixes and improvements that also affect X-Plane.

Direct Download

► Windows - LittleNavmap-win-2.6.17.zip
► macOS - LittleNavmap-macOS-2.6.17.zip
► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 20.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-20.04-2.6.17.tar.gz
► Linux (64 bit, based on Ubuntu 18.04) - LittleNavmap-linux-18.04-2.6.17.tar.gz

Alternative Download Locations

► Dropbox
► Mega.nz
► OneDrive

Known Issues

Read the linked chapter below to minimize issues when loading flight plans into MSFS:
► User Manual - Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Airports and Navdata.

See user manual for general known problems:
► User Manual - Known Problems.

See user manual for limitations and issues around Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020:
► User Manual - Known Problems - Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.

Changes from 2.6.16 to 2.6.17

MSFS

• Fixed crashes when loading scenery library of MSFS SU6. #799
• Corrected MSFS airport detection. Now ignoring airport closed flag which removes many POI wrongly detected as airports.
• Reduced warnings for unknown BGL records to avoid flooding the log with messages and crashing when reading scenery.

Map

• Limited minimum detail level to -2 to avoid confusion about missing map features when user selects a too low value. Now resetting details to default on update.
• Fixed issue where runway offset markings were not visible on unknown runway surfaces like when using scenery library mode Use Navigraph for all Features.
• Corrected drawing for logbook entries where departure or destination airport could not be found in the scenery library database.

Options

• Changed IVAO weather URL to use HTTPS (secure connection). The URL is now reset to the new default on first startup.
• Fixed issue where AI and user aircraft tooltip settings were not restored in options.

Flight Plan

• Corrected flight plan calculation using radio navaids. Selected navaids were too close in some cases. Example: PAYA MDO ODK CDB ELF DUT PADK where CDB and ELF are too close resulting in zig-zag routing.
• Added heading for departure parking position to LNMPLN flight plan format.
• Adjusted cost factor for flight plan calculation to avoid direct calculation (no airways at all) on the last two ticks of the slider. Default value for slider after installation is not centered.
• Fixed issues where departure position type (runway, parking, helipad or airport) was not saved in LNMPLN after changing start position to a runway or assigning departure airport. Departure position type now set correctly to runway after assigning a runway automatically.

Logbook Search

• Fixed broken search for departure and destination airport in logbook.
• Disabled not working airport filters in logbook search context menu (Filter by ... in context menu). These will be enabled again in a later version.
• X-Plane: Fixed several issues where an airport using official ids (ICAO, FAA, IATA or local) was not found in logbook context menu, logbook edit dialog and information display for log entries.

Other and User Interface

• Fixed issue where an internal cache gave wrong results which caused random wrong airport assignments when working with flight plans or after switching scenery library databases.
• Removed slow down in internal airport queries when searching by official codes. This caused short freezes when clicking on an airport for information in some cases.
• Fixed several issues where airports were wrongly identified as X-Plane airports. Corrected display of airport ids.
• Fixed issue where a X-Plane was still wrongly detected while using scenery library mode Use Navigraph for all Features.
• X-Plane: Adjusted display options for official airport codes. IATA is now used before internal ident in all cases. Route description now shows IATA code as well if available.
• Adjustments to flight plan and aircraft centering when getting close to ground while flying. Now avoiding too close zoom.
• Added Pilot Nav to airport link list.
• Removed Work offline option in file menu since it is of limited use and causes too many problems if users check this inadvertently.
• Fixed bug with wrong airspace assignment for class F and G when reading OpenAir files. #797
• Better coordinate parsing. Removing separators |, ;, _ and : for latitude and longitude now.
• Fixed several typos in user interface and more small user interface improvements.

Build and Development

• Now using Qt libraries 5.15.2.
• Changed build to use OpenSSL library provided by the Qt installer on Windows.
• Updated flight plan schema file lnmpln.xsd and LNMPLN file format documentation in the user manual.

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

All files are checked by VirusTotal.

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This discussion was created from the release Version 2.6.17.

[u-an-i]

Hi @albar965 , nice, great release!

small note: on Windows (11), i receive a TLS error on starting LNM,

here's the relevant portion from the log:

[2021-10-18 20:20:23.995 DEBUG]: void WindReporter::actionToValues() -10
[2021-10-18 20:20:23.995 DEBUG]: void atools::grib::GribDownloader::startDownloadInternal() Starting "https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/filter_gfs_1p00.pl?file=gfs.t00z.pgrb2.1p00.anl&lev_80_m_above_ground=on&lev_150_mb=on&lev_200_mb=on&lev_250_mb=on&lev_300_mb=on&lev_450_mb=on&lev_700_mb=on&var_UGRD=on&var_VGRD=on&dir=%2Fgfs.20211019%2F00%2Fatmos"
[2021-10-18 20:20:24.123 WARN ]: void atools::util::HttpDownloader::httpFinished() URL "https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/filter_gfs_1p00.pl?file=gfs.t00z.pgrb2.1p00.anl&lev_80_m_above_ground=on&lev_150_mb=on&lev_200_mb=on&lev_250_mb=on&lev_300_mb=on&lev_450_mb=on&lev_700_mb=on&var_UGRD=on&var_VGRD=on&dir=%2Fgfs.20211019%2F00%2Fatmos" error QNetworkReply::UnknownNetworkError
[2021-10-18 20:20:24.123 DEBUG]: void atools::grib::GribDownloader::downloadFailed(const QString&, int, QString) 99 "TLS initialization failed" retries 0
[2021-10-18 20:20:24.123 DEBUG]: void atools::grib::GribDownloader::startDownloadInternal() Starting "https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/filter_gfs_1p00.pl?file=gfs.t18z.pgrb2.1p00.anl&lev_80_m_above_ground=on&lev_150_mb=on&lev_200_mb=on&lev_250_mb=on&lev_300_mb=on&lev_450_mb=on&lev_700_mb=on&var_UGRD=on&var_VGRD=on&dir=%2Fgfs.20211018%2F18%2Fatmos"
[2021-10-18 20:20:24.125 WARN ]: void atools::util::HttpDownloader::httpFinished() URL "https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/filter_gfs_1p00.pl?file=gfs.t18z.pgrb2.1p00.anl&lev_80_m_above_ground=on&lev_150_mb=on&lev_200_mb=on&lev_250_mb=on&lev_300_mb=on&lev_450_mb=on&lev_700_mb=on&var_UGRD=on&var_VGRD=on&dir=%2Fgfs.20211018%2F18%2Fatmos" error QNetworkReply::UnknownNetworkError
[2021-10-18 20:20:24.125 DEBUG]: void atools::grib::GribDownloader::downloadFailed(const QString&, int, QString) 99 "TLS initialization failed" retries 1
[2021-10-18 20:20:24.125 DEBUG]: void atools::grib::GribDownloader::startDownloadInternal() Starting "https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/filter_gfs_1p00.pl?file=gfs.t12z.pgrb2.1p00.anl&lev_80_m_above_ground=on&lev_150_mb=on&lev_200_mb=on&lev_250_mb=on&lev_300_mb=on&lev_450_mb=on&lev_700_mb=on&var_UGRD=on&var_VGRD=on&dir=%2Fgfs.20211018%2F12%2Fatmos"
[2021-10-18 20:20:24.128 WARN ]: void atools::util::HttpDownloader::httpFinished() URL "https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/filter_gfs_1p00.pl?file=gfs.t12z.pgrb2.1p00.anl&lev_80_m_above_ground=on&lev_150_mb=on&lev_200_mb=on&lev_250_mb=on&lev_300_mb=on&lev_450_mb=on&lev_700_mb=on&var_UGRD=on&var_VGRD=on&dir=%2Fgfs.20211018%2F12%2Fatmos" error QNetworkReply::UnknownNetworkError
[2021-10-18 20:20:24.128 DEBUG]: void atools::grib::GribDownloader::downloadFailed(const QString&, int, QString) 99 "TLS initialization failed" retries 2
[2021-10-18 20:20:24.128 DEBUG]: void atools::grib::GribDownloader::startDownloadInternal() Starting "https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/filter_gfs_1p00.pl?file=gfs.t06z.pgrb2.1p00.anl&lev_80_m_above_ground=on&lev_150_mb=on&lev_200_mb=on&lev_250_mb=on&lev_300_mb=on&lev_450_mb=on&lev_700_mb=on&var_UGRD=on&var_VGRD=on&dir=%2Fgfs.20211018%2F06%2Fatmos"
[2021-10-18 20:20:24.130 WARN ]: void atools::util::HttpDownloader::httpFinished() URL "https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/filter_gfs_1p00.pl?file=gfs.t06z.pgrb2.1p00.anl&lev_80_m_above_ground=on&lev_150_mb=on&lev_200_mb=on&lev_250_mb=on&lev_300_mb=on&lev_450_mb=on&lev_700_mb=on&var_UGRD=on&var_VGRD=on&dir=%2Fgfs.20211018%2F06%2Fatmos" error QNetworkReply::UnknownNetworkError
[2021-10-18 20:20:24.130 DEBUG]: void atools::grib::GribDownloader::downloadFailed(const QString&, int, QString) 99 "TLS initialization failed" retries 3
[2021-10-18 20:20:24.130 WARN ]: void atools::grib::WindQuery::gribDownloadFailed(const QString&, int, QString) "TLS initialization failed" "https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/filter_gfs_1p00.pl?file=gfs.t06z.pgrb2.1p00.anl&lev_80_m_above_ground=on&lev_150_mb=on&lev_200_mb=on&lev_250_mb=on&lev_300_mb=on&lev_450_mb=on&lev_700_mb=on&var_UGRD=on&var_VGRD=on&dir=%2Fgfs.20211018%2F06%2Fatmos"
[2021-10-18 20:20:24.130 DEBUG]: void WindReporter::windDownloadFailed(const QString&, int) "TLS initialization failed" 99
[2021-10-18 20:21:27.137 DEBUG]: Starting direct connection
[2021-10-18 20:21:27.137 DEBUG]: void atools::fs::sc::DataReaderThread::setHandler(atools::fs::sc::ConnectHandler*) "SimConnect"
[2021-10-18 20:21:27.137 DEBUG]: SimConnect available: true

Previous LNM version on this system is 2.6.16. I moved the previous version's folder and extracted the new version's LNM folder into the same location as the previous version's folder was.

[albar965]

Oh. I see. This bl**y SSL DLLs need a MSVCR100 DLL. I though I could get rid of these dependencies but the Qt provided SSL libraries still need this.

[albar965]

This vcredist_x64_2010.exe and this vcredist_x86_2010.exe should help.

[u-an-i]

Hi, i tried all more recent versions on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-160 and yes, the VC 2010 versions solved the issue.

[albar965]

Thanks for feedback. This is an old and unsupported version. No idea why Qt compiled the OpenSSL libraries with this one.
I'll use another OpenSSL build next time. There are plenty based on MinGW which do not need redistributables. This causes too much support work for me (in terms of emails per day).

[albar965]

BTW: I replaced the SSL libraries in the Windows download with ones that are built using MinGW and do not need any redistributable.
You can find all packages here: https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries
I'm using OpenSSL Binaries Win-64 1.1.1l and OpenSSL Binaries Win-32 1.1.1l from http://wiki.overbyte.eu/wiki/index.php/ICS_Download

[Scott-S87]

Hello to @albar965 and everyone else!!

Release 2.6.17 is working great for me. But there is one rather significant UI difference, that I am not sure was intended or not. I don't think I saw anything specific in the release notes. Has anyone else noticed that in general , the UI font/display/icons is much larger in this release than in previous releases? See below for my comparison to previous release 2.6.16

Some may like the change. But for me, I would say that I prefer the smaller display. This is mainly because when you load in more involved flight plans, the details in the flight plan panel become hard to navigate, and things like the weather information become more difficult to see in one view.

Anyway, let me know if there is a work around for this. Thanks again for developing such a powerful utility!!

Regards,
Scott

[albar965]

This is most likely a side effect of an update to a newer Qt library. I did not change anything in this regard.

Have a look at your the setting User interface font in options on page Display and Text. Try Reset font to default or choose another one. This changes the font for the whole application (except the map). Maybe this helps.

Seems that the new Qt interprets the font settings differently. There are also new issues with high DPI displays.

Alex

[Scott-S87]

Very good, thank you for this information!! Yes, reducing the font and scaling options make all the difference. Much appreciated, looks great now!

Thanks again,
Scott

[112Blackburn]

Good day. :)

Is there any option to restore the "old" zoom from the aircraft centering?
I used LNM for rescue helicopter flights and it was perfect for me, that LNM zoomed in that much when I was near my destination, so that I could see all the streets and house numbers.
The new zoom is clearly too weak for my flights and I have to correct the zoom myself during the flight, which is quite difficult. :D

Nevertheless, I would like to take the opportunity to thank you for this great software. ;)

[albar965]

You're welcome. 🙂

Sorry, the old zoom cannot be restored for now. I'll probably add an option to adjust this in the next LNM version.
You can customize the zoom in options on page Simulator Aircraft. See here for more information about this auto-zooming. Maybe the plain old zooming (just centering without the waypoint) is better for helicopter flying.