10. Statusbar

The statusbar at the bottom of the window shows various information. Shown or hide it in the menu Window -> Statusbar.

Status bar fields are compacted after a timeout if the mouse cursor is not inside the map, i.e. the coordinate display is empty.

The statusbar at the bottom of the main window shows various indications (from left to right):

Messages, last action or quick help

explaining a menu item or toolbar button. When inactive the field shows the number of messages, if any. Messages cover background tasks like weather updates or the simulator connection state. Messages are shown in the tooltip when clicking into the field or hovering the mouse above. A maximum of ten messages is shown.

Connection status

for a local or remote connection. The tooltip provides more detail about the status, like the host name for remote connections as well as the connection status for online networks.

Connecting...: The program is trying to establish a connection which was initiated either manually or automatically.
Connected: A connection was established.
Disconnected: The simulator or Little Navconnect exited.

Map content indicator

that shows airport types, airspaces, navaids or AI vehicles currently visible on the map. The tooltip gives more details.

A red warning message Too many objects is be shown if too many objects are displayed on the map due to too high a detail level. The map display might be incomplete if this happens.
A red Database empty message will be shown if the currently selected database has no content and needs to be loaded. See Load Scenery Library for more information how to load the scenery library for a simulator.

Map detail level and map label level.

The first number is detail level where the range is -2 for least detail to +5 for most detail. The second number is the label level where the range is -5 for least and smallest labels to +5 for the biggest labels and most label information.

See More Details, Less Details, Default Details, More Map Labels and Less Map Labels in menu View.

Online map download progress indicator.

This shows the state of the current map download. The text is prefixed with a red Offline. indication if offline mode is enabled.

Done: All map data loaded successfully.
Loading: Map data is missing in the cache and was requested. Now waiting for reply.
Updating: Map data is already loaded but expired after two weeks. Waiting for new data after requesting an update.
Incomplete: Download failed.

Zoom distance

viewpoint distance to earth surface in NM or kilometers.

Coordinates

at cursor position on map as latitude and longitude depending on selected unit in the options dialog on page Units. The status bar is compacted after a timeout if this field is empty since the mouse cursor is not inside the map.

Ground elevation below the cursor after a short delay if the GLOBE offline elevation data is selected. See GLOBE Offline Elevation Data.
Magnetic declination at the cursor position in degrees West or East. See also Magnetic Declination for more information.

Current date of month and UTC time

hours:minutes:seconds. This is the real world time and not the simulator time. The tooltip gives more date and time information.