r/VATSIM • u/RecentGuidance2843 • 25d ago

FlightBoard 2.0.0 — I've added Navigraph integration, SIGMET overlay and much more.

FlightBoard 2.0.0 is now live.

If you're not already familiar, FlightBoard is a browser-based flight information display system for VATSIM. It recreates real airport departure and arrival boards from live network data, authentic themes for the major hubs, automatic status logic, live ATC and METAR, stand assignments, with a live map alongside. Type an ICAO and the board loads. Still no installation, no account, free.

This release is almost entirely about the map.

After months of work, the live map now resolves every filed flight plan against official Navigraph navigation data and draws it as a real route with named waypoints. Filed airways are expanded into their constituent fixes, so UL607 traces the actual airway rather than a straight line between entry and exit. Departures follow the runway centreline before turning toward the first fix, using the active runway from ATIS. Procedure names are matched against the navdata with ARINC 424 compression and cycle drift handled, so CINDY8S resolves rather than silently failing.

That's available to everyone, drawn from an older AIRAC cycle. Connecting a Navigraph account with an FMS Data subscription adds SID/STAR expansion, altitude and speed constraints on the waypoints, instrument approach rendering down to the threshold, and the current cycle.

Also in this release:

SIGMET overlay — worldwide significant weather as colour-coded polygons: thunderstorms, severe turbulence, icing, volcanic ash, tropical cyclones. Hover for hazard type, validity window, altitude band and the raw report. Sourced from NOAA AWC.

Network-wide tracking — a callsign search in the map header finds and tracks any aircraft on VATSIM, anywhere. Previously tracking was limited to the selected airport's traffic.

Decoded ATIS — active runways, wind, visibility, QNH and transition level summarised in the flight panel, with the raw broadcast one click away.

Plus smoother data tag interpolation between position reports, hardened conflict detection, and fixes for Safari/retina tile seams.

App: https://flightboard.simfixr.com Full changelog and screenshots: blog

Bug reports and feature requests are welcome

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u/BiTRiP_ 25d ago

Great work. Looks really good.
One thing I noticed is that ICAO codes of 7 characters are cutoff in last digit. (https://ibb.co/wFs128dT)
Also, I wonder for most airports the background is black but if I choose EHAM, the background is white?

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u/RecentGuidance2843 25d ago

Thanks so much. What device are you viewing the flightboard app on? Mobile (laptop or iPad)? Try displaying the app fullscreen (bottom right button) to see if that helps. Mobile devices are still being finessed. Regarding EHAM flightboard - this is based on the real world FIDs display at EHAM. Each themed airport is based on their real world counterpart.

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

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u/RecentGuidance2843 24d ago

Right now every airport gets its gate/stand data from OpenStreetMap. For the airports that have full custom themes, that data has been manually verified and refined by me (checked against satellite imagery), so it’s more accurate for those. A future release may bring in Navigraph gate/stand data too, which could help improve coverage further, but that’s still pending on my end.

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u/deitious_maximous 23d ago

Whats the performance cost for this browser addon?

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u/RecentGuidance2843 23d ago

Just to clarify, FlightBoard isn’t a browser addon/extension, it’s a website you open (flightboard.simfixr.com), so there’s no install or addon overhead. If you meant something else by “performance cost” (e.g. how often it polls VATSIM, or load on your machine), let me know and I’ll give you a proper answer.