Free Airport Moving Map - EFB and Toolbar Ground Chart with Taxi HUD

SOQA Airport Moving Map

An airport moving map for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. It draws the airport you are on and puts your aircraft on it, in the EFB and in a toolbar panel.

Everything on the chart comes from the simulator’s own airport database: runways, taxiways with their real widths and names, stands, and hold short bars. It matches the scenery you have installed, including third party airports, so there is nothing to download per airport and no chart subscription.

Taxi Routes

Type the route as ATC gives it, for example N5 N N4 L L3 RWY25C, and it is drawn on the chart in green from where your aircraft is. Each taxiway becomes a chip as you type, a name the airport does not have shows in red, and a runway in the route is drawn whole so you can see where the route ends. The route is shared between views: type it in the EFB and it appears in the toolbar panel and on the taxi HUD.

Taxi HUD (Experimental)

This feature is experimental, and it depends on the scenery. The route is read from the taxiways in that airport’s own data, so where a scenery leaves gaps between taxiways that should meet, the route will not join up across them and the HUD will not read the whole way through.

Also Included

- Day and night charts, North Up or Track Up.

  • Aprons, terminal buildings and grass from OpenStreetMap, optional and switchable.
  • Highlight taxiways or draw freehand in four colours; your marks appear in both views.
  • In the air, a list of the airports within 50 NM; after landing, the airport you are at comes up by itself.
  • Other aircraft on the field, shown with their callsigns.

Installation

Download, unzip, and drop the folder into your Community folder, then restart MSFS.

Links

Product page: https://soqa.app/airport-moving-map.html
Discord: SOQA
Support: support@soqa.app

For flight simulation use only. Not for real world navigation. SOQA is not affiliated with any chart publisher, and no publisher’s charts or data are used. Aprons and buildings (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

The topic title is a bit misleading, as it suggests that the entire app is free. It would be more accurate to use something like: “Free tier available, with full features limited to the first 5 flights.”

The screenshot that you have shared is a different product. That is SOQA xFDR - a Flight Data Analytics Platform for MSFS.

Airport Moving Map is completely free and has no paywall or any restrictions - you can download it from flightsim.to (SOQA Airport Moving Map - EFB and Toolbar Ground Chart with Taxi HUD - MSFS Add-on - Flightsim.to)

Okay, you’re right. I looked at the wrong product. Thanks for the clarification!

Does the taxi route have to be typed if using the default ATC or does it get it automatically?

Needs to be typed for now. I will check if the taxi route can be added automatically if given by default ATC.

What a superb add on. Professional quality useful freeware that has a UI design that would shame many an established developer (Rex Atmos comes to mind!).

I am really interested in this, however I’m not interested in typing in a route. By the time I complete all my preflight tasks, I’m ready to get in the air. Add a way to auto route to the selected runway and I’ll get this in a heartbeat.

Would it be possible to make the map semi-transparent, similar to how the Airport Navigator plugin works in X-Plane? I think having a transparent overlay would make it much easier to use while taxiing, as you could still see the simulator scenery underneath.

If that wouldn’t be possible, would you consider developing a Windows or Android version of the app, so we could run it on a second monitor or on a tablet?

Thank you for this great app. It’s really useful. I used to use SimToolkitPro for this, as it had a similar feature.

Semi-Transparent Mode - Definitely something that I can explore. If it’s possible, I’ll add this feature in the next release.

Windows or Android version - Unfortunately, this is not possible without an external installer or a program running in background.

That’s great to hear. Thanks a lot for considering it. It’s really nice to see a developer listening to the community.

Yes, I know. I was just wondering if there might be a way to make it work as a standalone app in the future.

Hi @TenPatrol

I have added the Semi Transparent Mode along with few other features in the next update.
You can download it from SOQA Airport Moving Map - EFB and Toolbar Ground Chart with Taxi HUD - MSFS Add-on - Flightsim.to

Hi, thank you so much for taking the time to implement this feature. Much appreciated.