MSFS 2024 Has *FREE* Worldwide Airport Charts | No More Navigraph Subscriptions?

After the failure to launch of MSFS 2024, the simulator has quite rightly taken a lot of critisism over the last week or so. However, there is one feature that you cannot complain about - the EFB and FREE Airport charts. This is a gamechanger but does it mean that Navigraph is no longer required?

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[RizzlaTheCat]

WOW!!
Now this is incredible! What a great surprise present for me! :)
Thanks ASOBO! :)

[ClintThrust-er]

Great work by microsoft building this into the sim. I'll continue to support Navigraph far into the future though, their products are amazing, they are a small company that actually really understands and care about their customer base.

[TaliaJohnson]

One caveat to the charts is that they aren't available for all airports. For example, CYTZ, Toronto Island Airport, which has SIDs does not have any of the departures in the charts. That airport in the real world has scheduled airline traffic with turboprop aircraft like the Dash-8. For those flying smaller aircraft the Navigraph charts are still necessary for many airports. Therefore, the decision about keeping Navigraph for charts should be based on the type of flying one is doing, or they type of charts one prefers to have access to. I like airliner flying, but also doing shorter flights in aircraft such as the Cessna 208 Caravan to smaller airports.

[akaristudiosaks]

Big plus for navigraph is that is an app also. You can plan flight from your mobile Phone or PC and also track your plane live via phone or PC.

[thx]

It's great if you like airliners. For GA they are almost useless because they don't support category A or B aircraft (< 121 kt stall speed). Plus, it only supports RPT airfields and has no VFR waypoints. So while it is very nice, for me, it is almost completely useless unfortunately.

[soundboy]

Thank you for your sound advice and most of all thank you for your love and your prayers!

[ThePixelbuilder]

Was about to get a new 1 year subscription as I heard of the build in Lido maps. So happy I did not go for the subscription. Lido is everything I need for my kind of flying - its just awesome

[LegionOfEclaires]

One other aspect that I don't think you mentioned, some payware do not use MS's navdata, at least on MSFS2020, and if you want to update them, you need a Navigraph subscription. You also need an active subscription to use the charts in the EFBs for those payware.

[kevindavis]

I’m glad they have the latest data in there by default. Every year, I have trouble renewing my Navigraph subscription, so it’s nice to have a tool to use in the meantime.

[ThomasAnderson-dm]

I own the "professional" edition of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000, and the manual has Jeppesen charts for Tempelhof, Logan International, O'Hare International, Long Island Mac Arthur, Heathrow, Flying Cloud, JFK, Charles De Gaulle, Leonardo Da Vinci/Fiumicino, San Francisco Intl, Seattle-Tacoma Intl, King County International/Boeing Field, Space Center Regional, Narita, and finally Washington National airports.

Not trying to be facetious, but charts have technically been included before, just not the entire world as you correctly point out 🙂

[jenny]

Figured out Mini FCU and Throttle quadrant setup in MSFS 2024 for the Fenix A320 make sure Mini FCU simlink is copy and pasted from 2020 Community packages to 2024 Comunity packages and FSUIPC 7 is running on your PC. Also in the Throttle quadrant make sure you have Throttle axis on and throttle axis 0 to 100% set for each throttle on the settings then you can set them up in the MCP. No need to fiddle with the axis settings... These charts really are great but I will still be subscribing to Navigraph to keep up to date with simbrief as it it still very useful.

[KrlKchr]

This is very nice. Maybe a little competition will be healthy for the business. Maybe a few feew will drop in the future. Lets see

[jerryweirdspeed]

Holding the flightplanning and FMS data subscription without charts does save on expenses. No longer having to rely on bookmark collections for countries or Chartfox like services is nice. Since you can import the Navigraph database into LNM and verify procedures there, the chartless subscription plan on Navigraph has become much more attractive by convenience.

[robie]

If you click the Briefing tab from the bottom of the MSFS planner it will generate an Operational Flight Planner similar to Simbrief!

[sirxavier]

2024 also have FAA charts as well and Now that Navigraph has added a simbrief application to the 2024 tablet is freaking awesome. You dont need to leave the sim to create a plan i hope ivao and vatsim add apps to the tablet as well like fileing a flight plan from the tablet and the overall vpilot/attitude application move to the tablet

[CaptVirtual]

9:30 "few months ago" Navigraph acquired SimBrief early 2021. Do you know as fact that Asobo/LIDO is going to update MSFS with monthly AIRAC updates? MSFS 2020 AIRAC updates were quarterly at best.

[herveledref]

A big thank you for this video and a first piece of good news in the face of all the criticism that's been pouring in over the past week. It's already a huge step forward to be able to integrate a complete and coherent flight plan with SID and STAR, so let's hope that the ATC will follow suit and also be in perfect harmony with the flight plan.

[GabrielFurchert]

seems you cannot rotate the tablet for the charts. The original lufthansa lido system is landscape format.

[abstractbybrian]

I use SayIntentions ATC program…in order to do IFR with SI they require SB. Hopefully one day SI will read the default EFB flight plans…

[JohnyFrosty]

Standard product doesnt have any charts or live weather?

Because I cant find any lido or other charts. Live weather (settings On) doesnt work either