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Navigraph airport maps come to ACARS

Link your Navigraph account and taxi on real airport charts, with your aircraft moving right on the diagram. The map even switches itself between the ground and the air as you fly.

Matt Calsada

You push back at a big, unfamiliar field. Ground rattles off a taxi route that's all letters and intersections, and you're stuck squinting at a static chart on your second monitor trying to work out which way the nose is even pointing. That part is over.

Connect your Navigraph account and ACARS now draws the real airport diagram right in the client, with your aircraft sitting on it and moving as you taxi. Hold short lines, ramp edges, taxiway labels, the runway you were assigned. It's all there, and it follows you.

It knows where you are in the flight

You don't have to manage any of it. On the ground, you get the airport chart. Once you rotate and climb away, the map opens up to the full enroute view so you can watch the whole route unfold.

After takeoff the map switches to the enroute view

Come back down at the other end and it flips straight back to the airport chart for taxi-in, so you've got your stand and the ramp in front of you the moment you clear the runway. No buttons, no fumbling. If you ever want to override it, the Taxi / Enroute toggle up top is right there.

Back on the airport chart for taxi-in at the destination

The details that make it useful

mapOnly the stands you fit | The chart highlights the gates and stands your aircraft actually fits, so you're not eyeballing whether the 777 tucks into a regional pad.
Day and nightA theme that reads clearly in a dark cockpit at 2am, and one for daytime.
Your taxi trailA breadcrumb line shows exactly where you've been on the field.
On the web tooThe same airport charts show up on the live map on the website, so anyone following your flight sees the ground picture.

Turning it on

Head to Settings → Connected Services and hit Sign in with Navigraph. You do it once and ACARS remembers it.

The airport ground charts come from Navigraph's AMDB data, which needs a Navigraph Unlimited subscription. Linking your account is free and the enroute map works for everyone. Unlimited is what lights up the taxi charts.