Announcement - Traffic and ATC Sectors - FSExpo 2024-06-22

Watch the announcement of our upcoming feature Traffic and ATC Sectors from FlightSimExpo - North America's Community Driven Flight Simulation Convention.

[@marcschmidt2786]

Thank you Navigraph for constantly improving and implementing new stuff into your system. This is for sure another huge update coming in. Excellent job done!

[@Navigraphteam]

We are glad that you like it! :D

[@vnasjt]

What I love about the navigraph services is how you nitt several items together so we can limit the number of windows/programs running during flight. Thank you for continued efforts to improve your products. Weather/atis/ofp and now online networks is maybe "small" by it self, but together they make it much easier to get the info and situational awareness improved. Even if I have a period with limited flying time/interest in the sims, I allways keep my subscrition live, I love watching charts/planning as much as actual flying.

[@Navigraphteam]

What you are writing is thanks to our community, which constantly helps us with ideas and tells us what they need! :)

[@bellaUK]

Thank you navigraph for being the only expense that deserves every penny I spent on ultimate subscription ❤

[@Navigraphteam]

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[@_Tommmmmm_]

The fact that you guys are committed to using customer feedback to truly better and enhance your products is going to keep your business extremely successful.

[@Navigraphteam]

Thank you! We are here you you folks!

[@ilankrt]

First of all I want to thank you being one of the most innovative company in the flight simulation world. I saw your next step to ATC and it is impressive, and I think that this step should include in near future the ability of AI based regional and airport air traffic control. I am aware about the complexity of such a project but on other hand their are already some developer working on AI traffic versions, so Navigraph should cooperate withe them and integrate this programs... This could be the "third leg" of Navigraphs future

[@Navigraphteam]

Hi! We thank you for your kind words 🙏. It means a lot to everyone in the team 👍. Feel free to post any suggestions to our developers in the following section of our forum: forum.navigraph.com/c/simbrief/feature-requests. This will help guide the development team. Many thanks for your cooperation! Happy flying!

[@captpugwash3510]

Well done Navigraph - for ever something new for us all, a big thank you one and all !

[@Navigraphteam]

Thank you for acknowledging our efforts, we appreciate it immensely. Happy flying!

[@thomas_ger4098]

This is a fantastic feature that I was missing for a long time.

[@HammieNL]

I would love if navigraph and beyondatc work together so i know when to expect an handoff ❤that would be epic! 😮

[@REEDFSX]

Brilliant work Navigraph. It would be nice to see other aircraft's call signs for situational awareness.

[@Navigraphteam]

That sounds like a good idea. Thank you for your feedback!

[@sbmorris2k6]

Annotations on the live map rather than just on the charts would be good, I find when you zoom in on an airport the taxiways are easier to follow as the taxi charts are bit different.

[@Navigraphteam]

Hi there! Thanks for reaching out with a suggestion. Please feel free to post this to our developers in our Wishlist section in our forum forum.navigraph.com/c/wishlist. Many thanks!

[@rotorfib8719]

I kinda wish you guys had a way of recognizing long time supporters!! Not sure when exactly I signed on but I'm pretty sure it was near your beginnings. Before you guys came along.. way before, in the mid 90's, as a flight medic I would ask for all the expired paper charts from my pilots (fixed wing and rotor) and I would save them and would plan my flight sim flights by what charts I was able to collect.. wow, how archaic compared to what we have now thanks to you guys!! So This integration with vatsim is really cool.. but with the advent of AI atc, which imho is only going to grow..I think its only going to minimize live atc (vatsim) which is already wholly inadequate (outside of 'events') and honestly useless for anyone that's trying to simulate the daily grind of an airline pilot. What I would LOVE to see as a regular VA pilot (weather its A Pilots Life, Newsky or some other virtual airline).. is some kind of realistic 'world simulation'. And I don't know what exactly that means lol. Real world passenger numbers instead of random ones? Real world cargo on airlines instead of random amounts? I DON'T KNOW!?! I know there are options out there for 'games' where you earn money and can buy things.. planes, airports whatever.. but I don't want a world manager program.. just a way to think I have some realistic passenger and or cargo numbers and maybe I'm making some kind of impact on the world at large. Like maybe flights from NY to FL probably have a lot of demand around spring, early summer.. those flights might always be max passengers. A direct flight from NYC to Little Rock (KLIT) on the other hand.. maybe not so full? I don't even know!!! lol Is there even real world data to drill into in that regard?? But that's what has been on my mind lately. Especially with things like GSX and passengers on planes, and what appears to be similar simulation in FS2024. So.. just food for thought. And most of all, thank you for all that you have done from a long time subscriber/supporter!!!

[@Navigraphteam]

Hi there! Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and ideas! We really appreciate those who have been with us from the beginning and helped build this product. We have some ideas on how to integrate users who have been Navigraph users for a long time. Hopefully, this will be implemented within a year :)

[@gregoryl.4872]

Wishing I was there...

[@unclealig]

This new integration of vatsim traffic and atc looks grat. Would be great to have the possibillity to tag my friends as a favorite, in order to see them highlighted on the map when they are flying.

[@Navigraphteam]

Thank you for your feedback. Several people have mentioned that they want a friends filter. And it is a very good idea.

[@CaptVirtual]

Wow, great feature 👍 I will have to decide if I renew my Volanta subscription next year 🤔

[@triscadec]

Now....since I'm not at the expo thingy. My feature request is twofold. One bring back the retired feature of just opening Navigraph, and start selecting charts to pin to the pinboard without creating a flight. It was so nice to make a quick impromptu flight this way. Miss that a ton. Two, create a brightness slider so that the only two options of day and night mode, become whatever brightness you want. The day mode is too bright and bold for low light or dark conditions, and the night mode is too dark and contrasty for low light conditions that aren't completely dark. Allow us to set the brightness of the app and map to meet our exact specific needs in the moment.

[@Navigraphteam]

Thank you for your feedback! :)

[@peteallennh]

I love the new center sector support, but what about TRACON sectors? I have been looking for even *static* maps of TRACON sectors for years.

[@Navigraphteam]

Yes, you will be able to see TRACON as well. We still have some work to do with the tech still.

[@peteallennh]

@@Navigraphteam This is going to be EPIC! I really cannot wait for the update. Thank you for responding to the community!

[@texasvirgo1]

I am so excited to hear about all the updates!!

[@Sharjoom]

Looking forward to this. I will finally be able to retire LittleNavMap.

[@CptShaquilleOatmeal]

This an amazing feature because you now have a one very very close 1 stop shop for everything and almost a ForeFlight replica for flight sim! One thing I’d like to see is the “logbook” or history of flights like a few other programs offer cause then it’s a true 1 stop shop.

[@Navigraphteam]

Hi there! Thank you for the feedback, do you mean a logbook that you can write notes in, or one that is created automatically?

[@CptShaquilleOatmeal]

@@Navigraphteam so like Volanta for example, you can see your flight in basically a log book format like “XYZ123 from KJFK-KLAX” but you also have a visual representation of flights flown. Very cool feature

[@Navigraphteam]

@@CptShaquilleOatmeal Thank you very much for explaining.

[@CptShaquilleOatmeal]

@@Navigraphteam my pleasure! Hope your team made it home safe!

[@NataliesHistoryAndAviation]

Loving the new traffic feature. Could we see this added: - Aircraft type/icao - aircraft registration - connected sim (e.g. xplane or msfs) and ability to filter - friends list and filter to only show friends. would it be possible to get private traffic to show up. For instance littlenavmap supports the whazzup file format. Be great if navigraph could read that for traffic too. Thanks for the constant improvements ❤

[@Navigraphteam]

Thank you very much for your feedback. We will look into what is possible. We are very grateful to everyone in the community who helps us! :)

[@JohnVanderbeck]

Here is what I'd like to see as mostly GA pilot who occosionally likes to play around with old school navigation. better tools in the charts for measuring distances, and angles/radials from stations and for an extra bonus, something I've not seen ANY tool do yet, would be an ability to add a areanav (the old school kind) on the map and measure from that as well.

[@Navigraphteam]

Hi there! Thank you so much for sharing your ideas!

[@JohnVanderbeck]

@ElPodish Sure but I prefer Navigraph's apps a LOT more than LNV and why should I need to use multiple apps when one could do it all? :)

[@Qosmokid]

Navigraph is easily the flight sim add-on that's worth it's price.

[@Navigraphteam]

Thanks a lot, we appreciate it. We do our best to keep subscription prices down, yet continuously adding features that the community wants to see in our apps.

[@christian_dolch123]

Thanks!!!

[@HenrikNilsson-c5t]

Bra jobbat! Ser fram emot de nya funktionerna

[@Navigraphteam]

Tack så mycket! Vad roligt att höra från Svenska användare! :)

[@HenrikNilsson-c5t]

Det finns nog en och annan där ute😅 ​@@Navigraphteam

[@JohnVanderbeck]

Will the VATSIM information be available in the insim panel? That would be very helpful

[@Navigraphteam]

We haven't had the chance to look into the possibilities with the In-Game Panel yet; there might be technical issues.

[@lucasmrbarrosw]

Guys, amazing jog indeed. There's any perspectives about updates on the xbox pmdg add on? Since the navdata doesn't match anymore with the charts the subscription is starting to become useless....

[@Navigraphteam]

Hello there! Unfortunately, we cannot answer questions about PMDG; it's better to contact them directly.

[@Laurton]

Will this have a chance at working with the all the upcoming AI traffic eventually? Sayintentions and BeyondATC for example?

[@Navigraphteam]

Hi, great question! We are planning our Traffic and ATC sectors feature to be compatible with several other software. But at the moment we can't reveal any information. Your question is a great suggestion so please post it our forums so our developers can see it. forum.navigraph.com/c/wishlist

[@FieselvonWiesel]

Luv it! Wished for soooo long!

[@JohnVanderbeck]

Any chance of the weather overlays coming to the in sim charts? As a VR player I rely exclusively on the insim version and it is missing a lot of features really

[@Navigraphteam]

Hello there! It's not technically possible to add Weather Overlays to our In-Game Panel due to restrictions imposed by MSFS. We hope to find a solution, but it's not something we can do at the moment.

[@triscadec]

I like the idea of being able to see the VATSIM sectors and frequencies, but there is a technical challenge there that is caused by the individual controllers. I use another frequency control/display app when on VATSIM that shows all the frequencies along my route of flight, and allows me to set the active/standby comm1/comm2 with just a click of the mouse. The issue is how controllers type dumb stuff like "If you like my controlling go to...." "Happy controller online now...." in their sector fields which makes it hard to tell exactly what they are controlling. Until VATSIM removes all variability from the controllers to modify any logon fields, and standardizes every staffed controller positions display information in the API, it will be impossible for NAVIGRAPH to do much with the frequency/sector identification.

[@Navigraphteam]

Yes, that is correct. The good news we are in discussions with VATSIM about some of the issues. We still have some testing to do.

[@larryboothby3687]

When are we going to get some helicopter love? We need the FAA US helicopter charts, and we need helicopter aircraft types in Simbrief. Come on guys, throw us rotor heads a bone please.

[@Navigraphteam]

Hi! Thanks for your suggestions. We are looking into how we can better support helicopter simulation together with third-party developers. Our development roadmap is heavily based on requests from the community. We try to gather all requests in our support forum wishlist. We’d appreciate if you wanted to post your requests here: forum.navigraph.com/c/wishlist Thanks for your cooperation!

[@simking01]

id love to see xplane integrated with that data,so you could see everyone online flying around, using basic aircraft models like fstraffic uses..like live traffic but users..

[@Navigraphteam]

Hi great suggestion! Please feel free to post this to our developers in our wishlist section of our forum forum.navigraph.com/c/wishlist. Many thanks!

[@LunnarisLP]

Good to see Navigraph step up and improve their service, because right now it looks a lot like MSFS2024 might make them kinda obsolete if they dont which would be a bit sad given they work pretty hard to provide a top class product.

[@Navigraphteam]

Hi! We will always aim to improve our products based on feedback from the community, just like we’ve done since we started over 20 years ago. We are confident that our products will thrive even more in upcoming flight simulator platforms.

[@zofrenlepetitkopat2979]

What about IVAO sectors ? Technical complexity ?

[@Navigraphteam]

We are still working on this feature, we plan to add it. :)

[@patrickweisse4383]

Will this work for IVAO sectors, I did not see this in the demo .?

[@Navigraphteam]

Hi there! Yes, our intention is for it to work with IVAO. We still have some work to do with traffic before it can be released :)

[@Rotatesim]

When will be available this features

[@Navigraphteam]

We don't have a date for this feature yet. It depends on how much feedback and requests we receive during Flight Sim Expo 2024. :)

[@mitchellloder1032]

Love this!

[@Navigraphteam]

❤

[@JohnVanderbeck]

The View OFP button in the sim would be more useful if it wasn't an instant crash every single time I press it

[@Navigraphteam]

Hmm, we haven't heard about that problem before. Could you please write about it on our forum so that our developers can take a closer look at what's happening? forum.navigraph.com/

[@alejandroramos4406]

awesomeeee

[@ChatCTV]

Any news?

[@Navigraphteam]

Hi! Most of our developers are currently working on implementing this. Just hold out a little longer. Thanks for your patience!

[@nzflightsimulator6846]

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