3. Start

Little Navconnect comes with the downloaded archive of Little Navmap and is also added to the start menu when installing Little Navmap using a Windows installation program. See the Little Navmap user manual for more information about installation.

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3.1. General

Little Navconnect is bundled with the Little Navmap download.

Little Navconnect acts as an agent that connects Little Navmap running on a remote computer with a flight simulator. This saves the complexity of setting up a remote SimConnect link and also allows using Little Navmap to connect remotely to the Little Xpconnect X-Plane plugin.

Little Navmap can connect to the flight simulator directly when running on the same computer as the flight simulator therefore the Little Navconnect agent is only needed for connecting to a remote computer.

For X-Plane you need the Little Xpconnect plugin.

3.2. Windows Builds

There are two builds of Little Navmap and Little Navconnect for Windows available:

• Windows 64-bit: For MSFS and all X-Plane versions.

• Windows 32-bit: For FSX and Prepar3D.

Note that Little Navmap and all related programs are inter-operable across the network (Little Navmap and Little Navconnect) as well as the X-Plane plugin (Little Navmap, Little Navconnect and Little Xpconnect).

You can see the Windows build type in the about dialog and in the window title bar (64-bit or 32-bit).

3.3. Installation

3.3.1. Windows

Little Navconnect is bundled with the Little Navmap downloads. There is no separate package available.

See the installation instructions in the Little Navmap User Manual - Installation.

3.3.2. macOS

Extract the Little Navmap ZIP file and copy the Little Navconnect app to Applications or any other folder. You also start the program from the extracted folder.

3.3.3. Linux

Extract the Little Navmap tar archive to any place and run the executable littlenavconnect file to start the program from a terminal:

./littlenavconnect

Most Linux file managers will start the program if double-clicked.

3.3.4. X-Plane

Little Navconnect can only connect to X-Plane using the Little Xpconnect X-Plane plugin which has to be installed too.

The Little Xpconnect plugin is included in the Little Navmap archive. See the included README.txt in the Little Xpconnect folder for installation instructions.

The plugin is 64-bit only and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux.