Switching Airports

Pre-configured Hubs — Use the dropdown at the top-left to instantly switch between major airports (LSZH, EGLL, EDDF, LFPG, EHAM, KJFK, RJTT, and more).

Any Airport Worldwide — Click the + button next to the dropdown, enter any 4-letter ICAO code (e.g. KSFO, VHHH, WSSS), and click Search.

Direct Links — Bookmark or share a specific airport: ?icao=EDDF or ?airport=KJFK

Flight Information

• Flight — Callsign.
• Destination / Origin — Cycles between ICAO code and airport name every 4 seconds.
• Time — Scheduled departure or arrival time (UTC). When a departure enters "Departing" status, the time switches to the actual departure time and pulses amber.
• Gate / Stand — Assigned position. UK airports pull real data from UKCP when available.
• Check-in — Desk assignment for departures, based on airline and terminal.
• Status — Current flight phase. Cycles every 6 seconds between the phase label and delay / gate information.

Status Colours

• Blue — Pushback / Departing / Approaching
• Green — Boarding
• Yellow — Check-In / Landing / Taxiing
• Orange — Late Arrival / Wait
• Red — Delayed
• White — Go To Gate

Flight Tracking

Click any flight row to open the Flight Info card — showing the airline logo, callsign, aircraft type, status, gate, time, and a live SVG route arc from origin to destination.

Click Track on Live Map in the card to start tracking that callsign and jump straight to the Live Radar Map. A chip appears in the header showing the flight and route. When the tracked aircraft departs and goes airborne, the board automatically switches to the destination airport. Press × on the chip to stop tracking.

While tracking is active, the map icon in the header pulses green. The Live Radar Map automatically opens the tracked flight's detail panel and draws its planned route. Other aircraft on the map cannot be selected while tracking is active.

Header Widgets

• ATC (radar icon) — Green when controllers are active. Hover to see positions and frequencies.
• Weather (cloud icon) — Live METAR-based icon with temperature in °C. Hover to reveal a decoded METAR popover showing wind, visibility, cloud layers, temperature/dewpoint, and QNH alongside the raw METAR string.
• Map (waypoint icon) — Opens the Live Radar Map. Pulses green when a flight is being tracked.
• Clock — Current UTC (Zulu) time.

Visual Features

• Auto-Pagination — Splits into pages and cycles automatically when flights exceed screen space.
• Airport Themes — EDDF uses an animated Solari split-flap display; each airport has its own branded colours.
• Responsive Layout — Landscape: tables side-by-side. Portrait: tables stacked (great for dedicated monitors).
• Event Ticker — Scrolling banner above the footer when a VATSIM event is active or starting within 24 hours.
• Fullscreen — Click ⛶ in the footer. Press ESC to exit.

Gate Display

Full-Page Mode — Navigate directly to /gate/ICAO/CALLSIGN (e.g. /gate/EGLL/BAW123). The page waits for the flight to appear, then displays live gate, status, and departure time updates.

Gate Status — Shows CLOSED while the flight is still at the origin or en route. Switches to TBA (or an assigned gate number) once the flight is on approach or has landed at the destination.

Dynamic Branding — The page accent colour automatically adapts to match the airline's logo. Perfect for OBS overlays or streaming.

Live Radar Map

Open the Map — Click the compass icon in the header, or navigate directly to /map/ICAO (e.g. /map/EGLL).

Aircraft Markers — Each flight appears as a rotated plane icon colour-coded by phase: green (ground), blue (arriving), orange (departing). Airline logos and callsigns are shown on a label connected by a stalk line.

Draggable Labels — Click and drag any callsign label to reposition it. Double-click to reset to auto-placement.

Breadcrumb Trails — Airborne aircraft leave a fading dot trail showing their recent flight path.

Tracked Flight Route — When a flight is being tracked, its planned route is drawn as a dashed amber line through its filed waypoints, with the destination ICAO labelled at the far end. The tracked aircraft's label is highlighted and shows speed, heading, and altitude. See Navigraph Integration below for how routes are resolved.

Flight Detail Panel — Click any aircraft to open a side panel with callsign, status, aircraft type, route, altitude, speed, and gate assignment. When tracking is active, the panel opens automatically and other aircraft cannot be selected.

Track from the Map — Click Track Flight in the detail panel to start tracking any of the airport's flights directly from the map — no need to go back to the board. An amber chip in the map header shows the tracked callsign; press × on the chip to stop. Tracking stays in sync with the flight board either way.

Find Any Aircraft — Type a callsign into the Find callsign box in the map header to search every pilot on the VATSIM network — not just this airport's flights. Pick a result to start tracking it wherever it is in the world, complete with its route, nearby traffic and flight detail panel.

Gate Display Link — From the detail panel, click Gate Display to open the full-page gate monitor for that flight.

Boarding Pass — Click Print Boarding Pass in the detail panel to generate a printable boarding pass with flight details, seat assignment, and airline-branded accent colours.

Nearby Traffic — While a flight is being tracked and airborne, all other airborne VATSIM aircraft are shown on the map as small white markers with fading trails, giving a live global traffic picture around the tracked flight.

ATC Panel — An expandable panel in the bottom-left lists active controllers. When tracking a flight, the list is automatically filtered to show only controllers at the origin and destination airports plus any relevant sector (CTR) controllers along the route.

Conflict Detection — En-route and approaching aircraft are continuously checked for proximity conflicts using ICAO-aligned separation minima. Conflicting pairs are joined by a dashed coloured line and the aircraft icon pulses with a coloured ring: yellow (<10 NM / <2,000 ft), orange (<5 NM / <1,000 ft), red (<2 NM / <800 ft). Conflicting aircraft also reveal their full data tag (speed, heading and level) boxed in the severity colour, so the pair can be compared at a glance. When tracking a flight only conflicts involving that flight are shown. Toggle off via the Conflicts button in the legend; the setting persists across sessions.

Weather Radar — Toggle a live global precipitation overlay via the Weather button in the map legend. Powered by RainViewer and refreshed automatically every 10 minutes. State persists across sessions.

SIGMET Warnings — Toggle significant weather warnings via the SIGMETs button in the map legend. Active SIGMETs worldwide — thunderstorms, severe turbulence, icing, volcanic ash, tropical cyclones and more — are drawn as colour-coded polygons. Hover any area for the hazard type, validity period, altitude band, and the raw SIGMET report. Data from the NOAA Aviation Weather Center, refreshed every 10 minutes. State persists across sessions.

Airspace Overlays — Toggle controlled airspace boundaries via the Airspaces button in the map legend. Shows CTR, TMA, Restricted, Danger, Prohibited, ATZ, and MATZ areas as colour-coded polygons with altitude bands shown on hover. Powered by OpenAIP. State persists across sessions.

Live Updates — The map refreshes in real time via WebSocket — no page reload needed.

Navigraph Integration

Flight routes on the Live Radar Map are resolved using official Navigraph navigation data. Every filed waypoint is plotted at its true position, and airway segments (e.g. UL607) are expanded into their intermediate fixes so the drawn route traces the real airway path.

Connect Your Account — Click the Navigraph Connect button in the top-right of the map header to sign in with your Navigraph account.

Subscriber Features — With an active Navigraph subscription (FMS Data or Unlimited), you additionally get:

• SID & STAR procedures — departure and arrival procedures are fully expanded waypoint-by-waypoint, including the runway-specific transition, so the route shows the actual flown path from runway to airway and back
• Instrument approaches — when a landing runway is known (from ATIS, or the pilot's filed runway, e.g. EGLL/09L, when no ATC is online), the published approach (ILS where available) is drawn in purple past the STAR: the approach transition, final approach course and glidepath angle, ending on the runway threshold
• Altitude & speed constraints — shown in pink beneath each procedure waypoint (e.g. ≥4000, ≤FL240 ≤250kt)
• Current AIRAC cycle — routes use the latest navdata cycle, shown as a badge next to your username

Without a subscription, routes still include all en-route fixes and airway expansion from an older navdata cycle.

Tips

• Bookmark your favourite airport with ?icao=XXXX in the URL.
• Works great on a spare monitor in landscape or portrait orientation.
• Track your own flight — click the row, hit Track on Live Map, and the map opens straight to your aircraft.
• Click any flight for the info card; the gate shows CLOSED en route and updates to TBA or your gate number on approach.
• Print a boarding pass from the map's flight detail panel — great for immersion.
• Data refreshes every 20 seconds via live VATSIM data, pushed instantly via WebSocket.

Legal & Branding

Simulation Use Only — This tool and its branding are for immersion purposes and are not for real-world travel or navigation.

Trademarks — Airline logos are trademarks of their respective owners, used here for non-commercial community simulation.

View full usage & branding policy

1. Purpose

SimFixr FlightBoard is a non-commercial project designed exclusively for the flight simulation community (VATSIM). It replicates airport FIDS for immersion purposes only.

2. Branding and Logos

All trademarks and logos remain the property of their respective owners.

• Usage — Logos are retrieved via third-party APIs or local directories for simulation purposes only.
• Non-Affiliation — This project is not affiliated with any airline or airport authority.

3. Data & Privacy

To maintain the performance and security of the application, we collect limited usage data:

• Traffic Analytics — We record page views, specific paths visited, and airport searches to generate aggregate traffic statistics.
• Identifiers — The system uses session-based unique identifiers (UUIDs) and cookies to distinguish between unique visitors and returning users.
• IP Addresses — Client IP addresses are processed for security purposes, such as rate-limiting and preventing unauthorized access to administrative functions.
• Data Retention — Individual visitor records (first/last seen dates) are stored in a rolling log and are automatically pruned once the database exceeds 20,000 entries.

v2.0.0 — 2026-07-15

• Navigraph integration — the Live Map now draws each flight's filed route as a polyline with named waypoints, powered by official Navigraph navigation data
• Connect your Navigraph account from the map header — subscribers with FMS Data get full SID/STAR procedure expansion, altitude & speed constraints (shown in pink beneath each waypoint), and the latest AIRAC cycle (badge shown next to your username)
• Instrument approach rendering for subscribers: arrivals continue past the STAR onto the published approach — transition, final approach course and glidepath angle, drawn in purple down to the runway threshold. Uses the ATIS active landing runway, falling back to the pilot's filed runway when no ATC is online
• Free tier: en-route fixes and full airway expansion — airway tokens (e.g. UL607) are expanded into their intermediate fixes so routes trace the real airway path instead of cutting straight lines
• Departure routes now follow the runway centre line before turning towards the first fix, using the active runway from ATIS
• Filed procedure names are matched intelligently against navdata (ARINC 424 compression and cycle version drift handled), so routes like CINDY8S resolve correctly
• Navigraph account UI: a perks overview is shown before connecting, and the username now opens a small account menu instead of an instant-logout button
• SIGMET overlay — worldwide significant weather warnings (thunderstorms, severe turbulence, icing, volcanic ash, tropical cyclones) drawn as colour-coded polygons on the Live Map; hover for hazard, validity, altitude band and the raw report; toggle via the SIGMETs legend button (data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center)
• Track from the map — any of the airport's flights can now be tracked directly from the map's flight detail panel via the Track Flight button, with an amber tracking chip in the map header; stays in sync with the flight board
• Find any aircraft — a callsign search in the map header lets you find and track any flight on the VATSIM network, anywhere in the world — no longer limited to the airport's own traffic
• Live Map: redesigned flight detail panel — tighter, easier-to-scan layout with the Track Flight, Gate Display and Boarding Pass actions always in reach instead of scrolled out of view
• Live Map: ATIS in the flight panel is now decoded into an at-a-glance summary (active runways, wind, visibility, QNH, transition level) with the full raw broadcast one click away
• Live Map: the tracked aircraft's data tag (speed, heading and level) now updates smoothly between position reports instead of stepping once per update
• Live Map: aircraft in a conflict now reveal their full data tags outlined in the conflict severity colour, so both flights can be compared at a glance
• Live Map: Support, Help and changelog buttons added to the map footer, with a dedicated Live Map user guide
• Live Map: legend overlay toggles (Conflicts, Weather, SIGMETs, ATC Sectors, Airspaces) restyled as clean switches
• Airline logos added for Norwegian (NOZ/NSZ/IBK) and Norse Atlantic Airways (NBT/NUK)
• Live Map: waypoint and constraint labels enlarged and padded clear of the route line for readability
• Live Map: aircraft conflict detection hardened — no more false alerts from an aircraft being compared with itself, and conflict lines are cleaned up reliably
• Live Map: fixed a rare backwards slide in aircraft motion when a position update repeated, fixed tile seams on Safari/retina displays, and sharpened the weather radar overlay
• Board: the Aircraft column now steps aside on narrow split-screen and touch layouts so the essential columns stay readable
• The "Add Airport" dialog is now Airport Search, better reflecting what it does
• Under the hood: the live map code was restructured into modules for faster, safer future development

v1.5.2 — 2026-06-15

• Live Map: the selected aircraft's flight detail panel now shows the live ATIS text (runway, wind, QNH, remarks) for the relevant airport, alongside its METAR — including separate Arrival/Departure ATIS where an airport broadcasts both
• UI: header clocks now use tabular (fixed-width) digits, so the seconds ticking over no longer shifts the adjacent METAR/map/ATC widgets sideways

v1.5.1 — 2026-06-14

• Live Map: aircraft now move smoothly between data updates — replaced the old dead-reckoning prediction (which made markers lurch backward or veer on turns) with interpolation between actual reported positions, so each aircraft traces its real flown path
• Live Map: aircraft marker, tag and breadcrumb-trail colours now exactly match the legend key (On ground / Arriving / Departing); aircraft tag font restored for sharper text
• Visual refresh: search, Help, Changelog and Flight Info dialogs, the METAR popover and the live-map overlay panels retuned to the SimFixr brand styling
• Security hardening: stricter Content-Security-Policy, escaping of all VATSIM-supplied text, trusted client-IP resolution, and a refusal to boot with insecure default secrets
• Reliability: a red banner now warns when the VATSIM feed is delayed (boards keep the last-known data instead of blanking), and the last-known METAR is shown if the weather source is briefly unavailable
• Airport search no longer blocks the board — gates show “PLEASE WAIT” while stands load in the background, then fill in automatically
• Performance: the VATSIM feed is now downloaded once per cycle and shared, METARs are pre-fetched concurrently, the global airport database is disk-cached, and database connections are pooled
• New public /api/stats.json endpoint powering the live stat block on simfixr.com

v1.5.0 — 2026-04-13

• 17 Scandinavian airports added with VATSIM Scandinavia verified stand data: Copenhagen (EKCH), Billund (EKBI), Aalborg (EKYT), Aarhus (EKAH), Oslo Gardermoen (ENGM), Bergen (ENBR), Trondheim (ENVA), Stavanger (ENZV), Sandefjord (ENTO), Gothenburg (ESGG), Stockholm Bromma (ESSB), Luleå (ESPA), Stockholm Skavsta (ESKN), Västerås (ESOW), Visby (ESSV), and Malmö (ESMS) — 732 stands across 32 airports integrated from ENOR, EKDK and ESAA division sector files (licensed with attribution)
• Airport selector redesigned as a collapsible grouped dropdown — airports organised into regional groups (United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Western Europe, North America, Middle East, Asia Pacific)
• VATSIM Scandinavia attribution logo shown in the footer when any Scandinavian airport (except ESSA) is active; VATSIM UK logo likewise shown only for UK airports
• Danish (da) and Norwegian (no) footer translations added — bilingual Ankomst/Arrivals and Afgang/Avgang labels, localised security waiting time text
• All Scandinavian airport themes (EKCH and 16 others) updated: Inter font, lowercase table headers and status text, white header ATC/weather widgets, yellow footer accents

v1.4.3 — 2026-03-30

• Live Map: OpenAIP airspace overlays — CTR, TMA, Restricted, Danger, Prohibited, ATZ and MATZ boundaries rendered as colour-coded polygons; toggleable from the map legend, state persisted across sessions

v1.4.2 — 2026-03-27

• Dubai Al Maktoum (OMDB) added — custom theme with 226 OSM stands and Arabic footer translations
• Czech (cs) and Arabic (ar) translations added to the language system
• Paris CDG (LFPG) title case enabled

v1.4.1 — 2026-03-27

• Prague Václav Havel Airport (LKPR) added — custom theme with 111 OSM stands
• User Guide: status colour key corrected — Go To Gate is now white (pink removed)

v1.4.0 — 2026-03-17

• Airport registry centralised into data/airports.json — adding a new airport now requires a single file edit instead of changes across 7+ files
• Admin panel: new Airport Registry tab for editing all airport config (themes, flags, ceiling, title case, gate labels) without touching code
• Newark Liberty (KEWR) and Stockholm Arlanda (ESSA) added to the pre-configured airport list
• Check-in dispatcher refactored to convention-based method lookup — adding check-in logic for a new airport is now a single method, no dispatcher edit needed

v1.3.9 — 2026-03-16

• Newark Liberty (KEWR): terminal badge on check-in column, FedEx stand names, green GO TO GATE status

v1.3.8 — 2026-03-15

• Live Map: ATC Sectors toggle added to map legend — hides/shows sector boundary overlays, preference persisted across sessions; boundaries skipped on load if previously turned off
• Live Map: Conflict colour key in legend now hides when conflicts are toggled off
• Live Map: Retina tile support enabled for sharper map tiles on high-DPI displays (iPad, Retina Mac)
• Live Map: Vector layers (runways, taxiways, sector polygons, conflict lines) switched to Canvas renderer for smoother pan/zoom on mobile

v1.3.7 — 2026-03-14

• Live Map: Flight panel now shows simplified destination weather (condition, wind, temperature, QNH, visibility if reduced) fetched from live METAR
• Live Map: Weather shown for origin airport until within 150nm of destination, then switches to destination conditions
• Live Map: QNH displayed as hPa globally; US airports (K-prefix) additionally show inHg

v1.3.6 — 2026-03-13

• Live Map: OpenWeatherMap cloud cover layer added beneath the RainViewer radar overlay — both layers toggle together via the Weather button
• Live Map: RainViewer radar tiles smoothed with CSS blur to reduce pixelation at high zoom levels
• Live Map: Weather overlay now defaults to OFF (state persisted via localStorage)

v1.3.5 — 2026-03-13

• Live Map: RainViewer global weather radar overlay — toggleable from the map legend, state persisted across sessions, auto-refreshes every 10 minutes

v1.3.4 — 2026-03-13

• Google Analytics tracking added to admin, login, gate, index, and map templates
• EHAM theme: Inter font, lowercase text styling
• ATIS regex extended to handle LDG/TKOF without RWY prefix, reversed RWY IN USE phrasing, and pipe-separated runway lists

v1.3.3 — 2026-03-12

• UKCP stand definitions now fetched live from the UKCP API at startup — fixes missing gate names for recently added stands (IDs 1529–1742, e.g. stand 1740 → "178L"). Falls back to cached ukcp_stands.json if the API is unreachable. The file is refreshed on disk each successful fetch.

v1.3.2 — 2026-03-12

• Live Map: preferred runway fallback for calm and light wind — when no ATIS is online and wind is below a per-airport threshold (or variable), the system now returns documented preferred runways instead of leaving it to a wind-heading calculation that degenerates under low-wind conditions
• Preferred runway data sourced from official vACC SOPs and AIPs for 11 airports: EGLL, EGKK, EGSS, EGLC, EGCC, LSZH, LSGG, ESSA, EDDF, LFPG, RJTT

v1.3.1 — 2026-03-12

• Flight tracking: returning to the flightboard from the map now switches to the destination airport if the tracked flight is En Route, Approaching, or has landed — so the flight is always visible on the board

v1.3.0 — 2026-03-11

• Live Map: active runway detection — parses VATSIM ATIS text to identify landing and departing runways in use, highlighted in blue (arrivals), green (departures), or yellow (both)
• Live Map: runway HUD overlay shows active runway identifiers, ATIS information code, frequency, and data source (ATIS or wind calculation)
• Live Map: wind-based fallback calculates into-wind runways from METAR when no ATIS is online
• Live Map: ATC controllers now correctly displayed for US airports (K-prefix ICAO to 3-letter FAA code matching)
• Admin: ATIS Log tab shows airports where runway parsing fell back to wind, with full raw ATIS text for debugging

v1.2.6 — 2026-03-11

• Flight Info Modal: clicking any flight row opens a card with airline logo, status, gate, aircraft, and a live SVG route arc
• Track on Live Map: one-tap button in the modal starts tracking and navigates directly to the Live Radar Map
• Right-click gate display replaced by the unified left-click modal
• Live Map: map header no longer shows "Arrived" for boarding departures at elevated airports

v1.2.5 — 2026-03-11

• Live Map: dead-reckoning interpolation moves aircraft markers smoothly between VATSIM data updates
• Live Map: pilot name and VATSIM CID shown in the flight detail panel
• Live Map: auto-pan only triggers when a tracked aircraft nears the map edge

v1.2.4 — 2026-03-11

• Non-themed airports now use Inter as the default UI and data font for improved readability

v1.2.3 — 2026-03-11

• Live Map: map header now correctly shows real airport names for both origin and destination

v1.2.2 — 2026-03-10

• Stockholm Arlanda (ESSA) theme and check-in desk assignments
• Live Map: OSM taxiway data cached per airport — faster reloads and more reliable display during flight tracking
• Live Map: map no longer zooms away from the airport when tracking a ground flight

v1.1.9 — 2026-03-09

• SID/STAR route segments drawn as smooth curves; procedure now inferred from waypoints when not filed, with live METAR wind as tiebreaker
• Admin panel: Nav Data tab with AIRAC cycle info and NAVDATA upload

v1.1.4 — 2026-03-08

• Live Map launched with real-time aircraft markers, airline logos, breadcrumb trails, ATC overlays, conflict detection, and boarding pass printing
• Flight locator button and auto-follow mode
• All airborne VATSIM traffic shown globally when tracking a flight
• Actual departure and arrival times shown on the board

Earlier — 2026-03-01 to 2026-03-07

• Gate display page at /gate/ICAO/CALLSIGN for OBS overlays and streaming
• METAR popover with decoded weather data
• Paris CDG (LFPG) and Manchester (EGCC) themes added
• Multi-language footer — Arrivals/Departures/Gates translate based on airport country