Flight Planning with Little Navmap

This article explores Little Navmap, an open-source flight planner for X-Plane and Microsoft Flight Simulator, developed by Alexander Barthel. It details the software's architecture, including ~120K lines of C++, Qt5, OpenGL, D3D rendering, and a 134 MB SQLite3 database. The author describes their high-end workstation (AMD Ryzen 9 9950X, 96 GB RAM) and walks through installing prerequisites, importing aviation databases, and planning flights. The content focuses on the technical aspects of the tool and its integration with flight simulators, making it relevant to IT/technology readers interested in software engineering and simulation tools.