Everything GroundNav actually does.

Full SimConnect stream

Position, speed, attitude, control surfaces, lights, gear, flaps, engine N1, fuel, and ILS deviation, polled at roughly 10 Hz.

FSUIPC & PMDG readouts

Flap position via FSUIPC and true V-speeds straight from the PMDG SDK where available, plus geometric altitude independent of your baro setting.

GSX Pro control

Boarding, deboarding, cargo, refuel, catering, pushback, de-icing, GPU, and jetway state, with a full control panel to pick menu entries and run commands directly.

VATSIM + IVAO live traffic

Real pilots and controllers on both networks, polled at 1 Hz with dead-reckoning interpolation so motion stays smooth between updates.

Realistic AI traffic

Injected from an 846-airline, 3,473-airport route database, aware of gate occupancy and GSX wingspan so it doesn't clip your ground service.

Multiplayer

Other real GroundNav pilots within 6 NM appear as live AI traffic directly inside your own session, driven by a 10 Hz position broadcast and 60 Hz local interpolation.

TCAS-style proximity alerts

Traffic and resolution-advisory thresholds, the same shape of warning as a real TCAS unit.

Voice radio between pilots

Tune COM1 to 122.800 or 123.450 and you're auto-joined into a live voice room with push-to-talk, bindable to keyboard or hardware PTT.

Grouped live ATC strip

DEL/GND/TWR/APP/CTR frequency chips with one-click tuning, plus a toast when your destination's controllers come online.

Offline airport database

A native BGL scanner reads real taxiway, runway, and gate geometry directly, with no Little Navmap dependency.

Terminal & gate helper

Land at any of a growing list of airports and get told exactly which terminal and gate to expect for your airline, matched to how that airline actually operates there in the real world.

Taxi Route Planner

Real Dijkstra pathfinding across the airport's actual taxiway and apron graph, weighted to avoid runways, narrow taxiways, and parking aprons, and penalized for sharp turns. It can also parse a controller's taxi-clearance readback and bias the route to the taxiways you were actually cleared via.

Auto LODComing soon

Automatically tunes MSFS terrain and object level-of-detail by altitude to hold a target frame rate.

Flight phase engine

A 12-state machine from gate to taxi-in that drives the timing of nearly every other system in the app.

Landing score

A 100-point score from touchdown FPM and G-force, approach stability (Vapp deviation, ILS tracking, stabilized-approach gates), and centerline accuracy with crosswind leniency. Every threshold scales per aircraft, so 277 fpm reads as "good" on an A380 and "hard" on a Cessna.

Departure / SOP score

A 100-point score covering beacon-before-pushback, flaps set, TO lights, V2 by 400ft AGL, taxi speed, VR timing against your saved V-speeds, gear-up altitude, and landing-light procedure.

Continuous fuel monitor

Rolling 20-minute burn windows once you're moving over 100kt groundspeed, with a reserve-floor status scaled to your aircraft's actual burn rate, not a fixed table.

Top-of-descent calculator

The 3°/300ft-per-NM rule plus a buffer, giving ETA, target vertical speed, and track-miles pulled from your real navlog, not a straight-line guess.

Takeoff & landing performance calculator

A 55-aircraft database computing V1/VR/V2, balanced field length, FLEX temp, trim setting, a runway-available check, 2nd-segment OEI climb warnings, and RWYCC friction codes, auto-filled from SimConnect, METAR, and SimBrief.

Phase-linked checklists

Aircraft-family-aware checklists (A320/A330/A340/A350/A380, B737/B777/B787, CRJ, ERJ, C172) that activate automatically as you move through each flight phase.

Vertical profile charts

Departure and arrival vertical profile charts plot your climb and approach against the ideal path, plus a whole-flight altitude and groundspeed chart covering block-off to block-on, all part of every debrief.

Full SimBrief OFP

An 8-tab display: overview, times, weights, full navlog, winds aloft, ICAO flight plan string, live METAR decode, and categorized NOTAMs with validity windows.

SID/STAR-reactive flight path

Change the procedure and the route line on the map redraws live to match.

NOTAMs

Origin, destination, alternate, and FIR NOTAMs, filtered for noise like mowing and bird activity, refreshed every 30 minutes.

METAR/TAF decoding

NOAA plus optional CheckWX, refreshed every 5 minutes.

Detailed scratchpad

Full departure and arrival note pages, clearance, squawk, taxi routing, and every relevant frequency, live-populated from VATSIM/IVAO controller and ATIS data.

Weather & airspace overlays

Five OpenWeatherMap layers plus RainViewer rain radar, color-coded SIGMET/AIRMET hazards, FIR boundaries with live controller callsigns, TRACON boundaries, and a day/night terminator.

Charts viewer

ChartFox and MSFS Planner embedded, plus Navigraph chart access.

Adaptive flight recording

5 Hz on the ground, 4 Hz in the air, beacon-triggered, with crash-recovery snapshots every 30 seconds and KML export.

2D flight replay

Linear interpolation with no spline overshoot, full play/pause/seek/speed control.

Auto clips

Departure and arrival clips extract automatically around configurable phase windows, alongside manual clips whenever you want one.

Replay sharing

Share any flight to the web through the GN Live viewer, complete with OpenGraph share cards.

Screenshot gallery

Auto-captured at configurable phases, counts, and intervals, geo-tagged to the nearest airport, grouped into per-airport albums with calendar browsing. Watermarked WebP uploads go through a review-and-approve step before they're shareable.

Stream overlay

The most detailed stream overlay in flight simulation, full stop. Built-in OBS/Streamlabs integration, 8 color themes, an animated landing-score-card, and it even shows your viewers what country or city you're flying over. Nothing else in this space comes close.

Tablet kneeboardComing soon

A WiFi second-screen companion: QR-code pairing, live flight data pushed to any browser on your network.

Discord integration

Rich Presence shows your live flight status on your profile card, and a VA webhook posts PIREP approvals and rank promotions straight to your Virtual Airline's Discord.

Fleet tracking

Your personal aircraft roster by registration, each one remembering its last-parked gate and airport as its "home" until the next flight, with a map of its last 5 destinations and a live real-world departure board for wherever it's currently sitting.

Maintenance simulation

Components like tires, brakes, and hydraulics wear down by cycles and hours through ok, warn, critical, and overdue states. Overdue parts auto-queue a repair job that runs on a real countdown timer in a hangar, with a full per-aircraft service history and a 7-day fleet health trend chart.

Aircraft location lock

Land an aircraft and it stays there. Spawning that same tail at a different airport won't let you take off: it has to fly out from wherever it last touched down, the same way a real aircraft would. On by default, with a toggle to turn it off if you want.

Friends & live chat

Real-time chat with online-status indicators across GroundNav, VATSIM, and IVAO.

Public pilot profiles

A shareable GN Live profile page plus a rich in-app dashboard: stat boards, top airlines/aircraft/airports, monthly activity, and a gallery coverflow.

Two leaderboards

A global cross-app board (airports, aircraft, landing scores, distance, pilot XP, filterable by week/month/year/all-time) and a separate Career Mode board (pilot hours, airline cash, airline valuation).

Achievements & challenges

20+ badges from bronze to platinum, plus rotating monthly community challenges with live top-25 rankings.

Information page

A full airport reference, runways, navaids, frequencies, terminals, weather, plus real-world scheduled airline flights for any searched airport, filterable by day of week with one-click SimBrief dispatch.

Explore page

Browse real-world routes when you don't know where to fly: airline quick-filters, distance/equipment/continent filters, day-of-week regeneration, a live VATSIM event ticker, and a community popular-routes ticker.

Flight history import

Bring your logbook over from Volanta, SimToolkitPro, ElevateX, CSV, or JSON, with automatic de-duplication.

Create & brand a VA

Mirrored on both desktop and GN Live web, with a custom rank ladder built around your own progression rules.

PIREP pipeline

Filing and owner approval, backed by a PQI, a rolling 90-day quality index, and leaderboards.

Enforced requirements

Type-rating requirements and scheduled routes are enforced automatically, including a strict mode for scheduled-route-only operations.

Group flight events

RSVP-based events with live-map highlighting so members can find and join in real time.

Fleet & crew management

Maintenance-tracked fleet management alongside a Discord activity webhook for the whole operation.

Apply to real-world-styled airlines

41+ AI airlines stratified by prestige, each with its own hiring bar.

Sign real contracts

Salary, hourly pay, performance conditions, and strikes, exactly like the terms a real airline would offer.

Climb an 8-tier rank ladder

Student through Senior Captain, gated by real flight hours and check rides, with type ratings earned along the way.

Verification tiers

VATSIM and real-world-licensed pilots get dedicated verification with a mandatory check-ride skip-gate.

Found an airline

Three funding tiers to start from, then manage fleet acquisition and leasing as you grow.

Network planner

Profitability-colored routes and competitor analysis to plan where you actually fly next.

Crew operations

Hiring, rostering, and pairing-building, checked against legal rest limits.

Finance dashboard

Full P&L and cash-flow reporting, plus investor milestones once you reach the backed funding tier.

Live competitor map

A real-time world map of AI competitor flights, so the market actually feels alive.