Massive Update - SimFly Active Airports Tool

[Kyndra]

Ever need to step away from your PC while simming? Check out the incredible new Alerts feature that can play alert sounds (or even send an alert to your phone!) when configurable flight events occur (approaching arrival airport, nearing 10,000 ft altitude, geofences, MSFS crash detection, and more) - the app is probably worth it for this feature alone (FSUIPC required).

Download no longer required. Access the latest version here:
SimFly Active Airports

SimFly Active Airports is a browser-based flight planning assistance tool that automatically loads SimFly player-owned airport from the community-maintained SimFly Player-Owned Airports database and lets you look up distances, explore routes between any two owners’ airports, and file directly to SimBrief.

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SimFly Active Airports

No download required. Access the latest version online here:
SimFly Active Airports

Plan a flight

• Point-to-point distance — type any two ICAO codes, get the great-circle distance, full airport tooltips (runways, weather, owner) on hover.
• Owner-to-owner matrix — pick two pilots, get every airport-pair distance in a sortable grid. Filter by distance, category, owner, scenery, payout.
• File on SimBrief — one click opens SimBrief pre-filled with your route.

The Map — your in-flight cockpit

A full-screen interactive map with airport dots colored by category, payout %, or owner. Powerful search with additive (+) and negation (-) filters by ICAO / name / country / region / continent / scenery developer. Region-selection tool draws two circles and builds a cross-region matrix of every airport pair. Measurement ruler with chained multi-leg routes (nm + km totals). SimBrief flight-plan plotting with every navlog waypoint. Live METAR overlays with VFR/MVFR/IFR/LIFR color pills.

Live Aircraft Tracking — FSUIPC

Local connection to FSUIPC7 + Paul Henty’s WebSocket Server. Zero cloud round-trip. Adaptive cadence (500 ms taxi / 1 Hz cruise). Rotating plane icon with your choice of silhouette (airliner / prop / heli / bizjet). Optional Follow A/C smooth-pan. Persistent green breadcrumb trail covering any flight on Earth, surviving browser reloads. Live data panel streaming HDG / ALT / GS / IAS / VS / ETA / next-alert and more — every field customizable.

The Alerts system

Seven alarm types: Timer, Geofence (auto-anchored to your SimBrief DEP/ARR), Waypoint, Cruise Reached, Descent Started, Altitude crossing, and Loss of Telemetry (CTD) — a “did MSFS just crash?” canary that fires if FSUIPC stops pushing while you’re airborne. Per-alert names, drag-to-reorder, group cascades, full Alert History log with map pins, save/load to file. Full-screen trip overlay with Klaxon, Chime, and three more sounds.

Mobile Alerts

Push to your phone when an alarm fires. ntfy.sh for zero-setup (free, no account, under a minute). Pushover, Discord, Telegram, Slack, and custom webhooks also supported. Per-alarm opt-in.

Also

Scenery Library with star ratings and developer attribution. Pilot Payout map. Light/dark theme.

[Snoopyd86]

Really nice work man, thank you so much!

[Kyndra]

Thank you! Glad it’s working.

[PandorOne]

Very very nice work Kyndra, really useful, thankyou

[flightsimbrasil]

Amazing tool, tks for dev and sharing

[StarVen]

You always surprise me, you’re amazing! Thank you! Kyndra

[CalibraNR]

Congratulations! This is an amazing tool.

Would it be possible to add filters for airports based on distance, category, and level?

For example, let’s say someone wants to fly from a CAT 2, Level 2 airport to a CAT 3, Level 3 airport located between 800 and 1,000 NM away. The tool could list all airport pairs that match those criteria, or even a selected range, without requiring the user to choose the owners first.

It could then show all possible airports that fit the criteria. Owner information could appear during the pairing step, and pilot sharing information could also be displayed if available.

That would be perfect.

Again, congratulations on a job well done!

[Kyndra]

Thank you @CalibraNR.

While I do not have access to airport levels (only categories) everything else should be possible.

The challenge will become how to handle the volume of airports that might match the criteria. For instance let’s say there are 500 airports which satisfy the criteria. Another hurdle would be responsiveness as there would potentially be many hundreds of airports the tool would have to calculate distances for.

I will certainly consider the ideas though. I am glad you are finding the tool useful.

[Kyndra]

@CalibraNR

For example, let’s say someone wants to fly from a CAT 2, Level 2 airport to a CAT 3, Level 3 airport located between 800 and 1,000 NM away. The tool could list all airport pairs that match those criteria, or even a selected range, without requiring the user to choose the owners first.

It could then show all possible airports that fit the criteria. Owner information could appear during the pairing step, and pilot sharing information could also be displayed if available.

That would be perfect.

@CalibraNR

Prepared to be blown away!

Check out the new “Regions” button in the app.
Still more features and polish to add and some bugs to iron out - already amazing.

[CalibraNR]

That’s a great addition! Can’t wait to test it. Cheers

[Kyndra]

Download the latest version and give it a try.

[alevelezz]

Wow, amazing tool and so useful!! Love it!!!

[Kyndra]

Excellent, glad you’re enjoying it. Be sure to apply updates as they become available, pace of improvement is rapid.

[Volkymaniac]

Hi, Is possible that can you add to the app the an estimated block time of the leg? The distance calculation is very useful, but I think that the time calculation too. Thanks a lot for the app!

[Kyndra]

I could try but I’m not sure how to calculate it. Is there a published formula for all aircraft types?

[antonio.ferrara]

too many factors influence “time” in aviation, block time is useful for companies in order to calculate schedules, ans/or if it is convenient for the company it self. staff members are paid considering block time. I mean every single aircraft or even model has its own block time. it’s mainly based on based lots of historical statistics.

[Benoit0211]

Hi Kyndra,

to estimate my flight time for my B777 (flying at 470kts GS in average), i use this formula :

Flight time = (1+(Distance-350)/470)/24
that do not include Flight preparation and taxi (+15 to 30min)
it consider flying at 470kts + about 45minutes extra for slower GS during climb, descent & appraoch.

I set this formula with the historic of 300 of my flights, and the result matching quite well the real flying time.
Maybe you can try with that for class 7, and with 420kts for class 5 & 6

[antonio.ferrara]

that’s a nice formula, but is not the real definition of “block time” (block time in aviation is the total duration an aircraft is in operation, measured from the moment it first moves from its departure gate (“off-block”) until it comes to a final stop at the destination gate (“in-block”). It covers taxi-out, airborne flight, and taxi-in, and is used for scheduling, crew pay, and fuel planning .

the formula showed it’s a “more” precise formula of the classic T=Distance/Speed.

but as I was writing ,you might just consider the cruise speed of each aircraft, if you want to apply it.

[Kyndra]

Hello all.

The latest version is able to display airport revenue sharing percentage on the region map. It’s not real-time but will be updated a few times a week - particularly weekends.

Also as a bonus, you can tell the program which airports you have detailed scenery for and display that on the region map as well.

Enjoy

[alevelezz]

Quick question @Kyndra , how long does it takes for an airport to show up on the region once it’s purchased?
Thank you once again for this amazing tool!