I was wondering if anyone else was having trouble connecting X-Plane 11.50 with Air Navigation Pro on Ipad.   Apparently Air Nav Pro now no longer needs a plugin (it worked fine with one), but I simply cannot understand the instructions on their website.  This is what it says:

 

X-Plane Plugin

With ANP iOS 8.0.300 and onward. Pilots do not need to install any plugins to connect X-Plane. Standard position/attitude sharing settings for sharing via a network (UDP) must be turned on in X-Plane settings. To be able to use the AirNav simulator, a .airnavdebug file with AirNavSimu = true must be imported and ANP restarted. To reset to the actual X-Plane simulator, the procedure must be reversed (AirNavSimu = null, then restart).

 

I have followed the first lot of instructions and set up the UDP data correctly (I think) but I have no idea about the rest which refers to adding an .airnavdebug file.

I have contacted Air Nav Pro themselves but they report mine is an isolated case. They said they would contact the developers and I am awaiting a response.

I was wondering if anyone else had been successful or indeed can understand the instructions?

 

Thanks for your help.

Upkeep

I wasn't aware this had changed as previously I'd be using a plugin but that stopped working some time ago and I just gave up with it. I'll give this a try here again if it's working, but I also from your post it's unclear to me how to import an .airnavdebug file so I'll have to work that one out..

I'm not sure why they can't just keep it simple like Skydaemon which is working fantastically for me. No plugins or messing around, all that is needed is to enable broadcasting in X-Plane and it picks it up correctly which seems to be the process it's now taking, but how do you import files to it?

Thank you Tony. Will be interested to see if you can solve this one. Incidentally I tried with the old plugin anyway, just in case it worked, and no luck too.

Thanks again.

 

All the best

Upkeep

Looks like no one can help here.

I am still awaiting a response from the development team at Air Nav Pro (have no idea why it is taking so long) and if they can help I will post a response here. Curiously they still post the same incomprehensible message on their website:

To be able to use the AirNav simulator, a .airnavdebug file with AirNavSimu = true must be imported and ANP restarted. To reset to the actual X-Plane simulator, the procedure must be reversed (AirNavSimu = null, then restart).   

 

In the meantime, I will give up using the app and try others.

AvPlan is an alternative. I use it for realtime flight and the simulator. It connects seamlessly - but it also costs money! User support is excellent.

@Upkeep I tried here, it worked for me out of the box by enabling UDP broadcast in X-Plane and making sure both my phone/ipad and the PC running X-Plane were on the same WiFi network

 

Thank you Tony and Brian for your responses. 
 

Brian: AvPlan is as you say a bit expensive, especially as I am not a real world pilot. But thank you for the tip anyway. 

Tony: thanks for the screenshot. I am sure I tried these settings but now I have a screenshot I will try again. Thanks very much for the advice. 
 

All the best. Upkeep

Sadly this did not work. Followed Tony's screenshot and made sure both X-Plane and Ipad were on same network. No connection. I even reinstalled Air Nav Pro and still no connection. Briefly shut down firewall - no connection. Vanilla - plugins.

I am not sure I can try anything else. It is so frustrating not to be able to get it to work when it looks so simple!

Thanks anyway for help - it clearly works for you so something is wrong at this end.

 

All the best

Upkeep

@Upkeep

I realised in my shot I forgot to instruct you to change the IP address area on the right to your iPad... You can do this by opening up settings on your iPad, going to WiFi and choosing the little info icon next to your WiFi network name. Scroll down and you'll see your current IP address that your WiFi router has assigned you next to "IP Address", normally it will be something like 192.168.0.12 (etc). Put that in to X-Plane on the right-hand side of my shot above, and then restart Air Nav Pro... Mine takes around 2-3 minutes before it starts to pick it up, so be patient it does seem to eventually kick in if you leave it (Leave X-Plane paused until it works)

Let me know how you get on

Edit: Also, I found if Air Nav still refuses to connect, a simple off/on of the wifi on the iPad seems to trigger it to connect 🙂

Thanks so much, Tony, for  the continued assistance. Much appreciated.

I am afraid I had no luck. I tried your suggestions and again it did not connect.

I have been in touch with Air Nav Pro and they recommended the same as you, but still no connection.

I reinstalled the app at their suggestion, and that made no difference. I am really puzzled. I am using a vanilla version of X-Plane for this test. No plugins.

I even tried shutting down the firewall briefly to see if that made any difference. No effect.

I am running the very latest IOS -14.01

So I have now run out of ideas on this one.

Thank you for trying - it clearly works on yours - so there is something about my set up that is causing the problem.

Just finding it is the issue!

All the best

Upkeep

Had one last try. My PC is connected to the router via ethernet, while my IPad is of course WIFI. I disconnected the ethernet from my pc and enabled WIFI on it, and it worked!

It looks to me that both devices have to be on wifi - being on the same network does not seem enough.

At least I have located the problem. I will report back to Air Nav Pro.

Thanks again for all your determined help, Tony.

All the best
Upkeep