Awesome Laminar Research X-Plane Flight Simulator Open Source Projects

Curated list of open source projects for X-Plane flight simulator.

Link in the list should be:

• Open source software, with source code available
• Open source technical information to help X-Plane developers

Also accepted:

• Link to web site providing a free service for X-Plane simmers (like flight planing, ACARS communication...)

Not accepted:

• Products (plugins, aircrafts, sceneries...) without source code publicly available
• Commercial products (unless source code is publicly available)

Please note that some plugins are old, still work in older version of X-Plane, some no longer work in recent versions of X-Plane.

Applications

• Little Nav Map
• X-dispatch
• OwO! FlightAssistant

Add-Ons

X-Plane Plugins

• LiveTraffic
• openSAM
• autoDGS
• xchecklist
• DataRefTool
• FlyWithLua
• NASA XplaneConnect
• avitab
• X-RAAS2 Updated for X-Plane 12
• XTouchDownRecorder
• XA-snow
• Better Pusback

Aicrafts

• Boeing 777-300ER
• AeroGenesis A330
• Bombardier Global 5000

Hardware Adapters

• Logitec/Saitek Panels
• Winctrl (Winwing/Winctrl devices)
• XSchenFly (Winwing/Winctrl devices)
• Mobifly (not everything is open source...)

Lua Language Plugin and Scripts

On X-Plane main forum, there are numerous Lua based developments that are open source but not necessarily available on a source code repository.

• FlyWithLua

To name a few famous scripts:

• Simple Ground Equipment and Services
• Simload Manager
• Smart-Runway-Lights-XP12
• ...

Please head to the forum to discover numerous lua scripts.

Python Language Plugin and Scripts

• XPPython3 Python Plugin, documentation

• NOAA Weather, very old seminal original

• Follow the greens

Other Applications

• Hoppie Auto Station (Automated CPDLC Station - EPWW)
• Flex Calculator
• X-Plane Commands
• Cockpitdecks, some aircraft configurations
• X-Addon-Oxyde

Development, Exploration Tools & Libraries

Mapping and Related

• X-Plane Linear Features (documentation)
• X-Plane APT file Converter (converter to geographic formats)
• Airport Layout Visualizer
• Ortho4XP
• autoortho4xplane

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

• Implementation of Deep Reinforcement Learning in JSBSim and XPlane

Hardware, Home Cockpits

• ardxp (Framework to connect Arduino to X-Plane via UDP using Wiznet W5500 Ethernet module)

Other Software Librares

• XPPlanes
• XPMP2
• imGUI for X-Plane
• X-Plane Web API
• Headless development environment for XPPython3
• libacfutils

Free Products and Services

Other projects, source code not necessarily available, but still free!

• X-Plane Forum
• Hoppie ACARS Network
• Flightplandatabase
• SimChecklist
• Airports for X-Plane
• Navigraph Simbrief Flight Planning
• NextSimFlight

Laminar Research

Laminar Research, X-Plane Scenery Gateway

• X-Plane Airport
• XP Tools
• X-Plane Web API, now with Open API documentation
• X-Plane Gateway API (Open API documentation)
• X-Plane to Blender

Documentation, Manuals

Useful information to fly our aircrafts:

• Hoppie ACARS
• Smartcockpit
• Aviationhunt

Other Awesome Related Projects

• Fly-by-Wire - MSFS Airbus A320/A380 aircraft, useful for its Airbus FBW extensive documentation

See Also

• xplane-flight-simulator tag on GitHub

Numerous contributors of above projects often share more work on their GitHub account. Feel free to explore those gems.

Missing a project you like? Added a new open source application or plugin? Submit a PR.

Last updated Mar 2026