I do a lot of flight planning with Little Nav Map on my laptop where MSFS is not installed.  I want this copy of LNM to be current with it's scenery library.  Can I install MSFS here ( even though it may not do much more than launch), so LNM can connect and get fresh scenery ?
Or is there a download of such a library I can retrieve.   This laptop is fairly new with 16GB of memory but I definitely wouldn't want to use it for flights.
I do have flight simulator X installed here -- is that scenery just as good?

You don't need a simulator on the laptop. You can load the scenery library database on the flying computer with LNM and then just copy the file C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\ABarthel\little_navmap_db\little_navmap_msfs.sqlite over to the laptop. Also copy the Navigraph database file over if you have a subscription and updated the LNM navdata. The database is ready to use there. No loading needed and all functionality available.

The details for remote setups are here: https://www.littlenavmap.org/manuals/littlenavmap/release/latest/en/NETWORK.html

Alex

Thanks, I might just install msfs here with absolute minimum graphics settings since I'd be using it just to create LNM plans ( with msfs export pln files) and verifying some bush airstrips are actually serviceable.  I'm leading Friday group flights for Bush Divers so do this sort of thing regularly.