The MSFS & X-Plane cockpit, on your iPhone

Real Airbus and Boeing instrument panels rendered live alongside your simulator — PFD, ND/MFD, EICAS, MCDU, FCU, SAI — streaming over UDP. Plus a phosphor-green traffic radar, a route planner backed by 11,000+ navaids, a live screenshot stream, and VATSIM live traffic overlaid on the Pilot Map and Radar.

X-Plane 11 & 12 are now built in. The same FSXFollow app talks to MSFS 2024, MSFS 2020, FSX, FS2004, Prepar3D and X-Plane 11/12 — no separate X-PlaneFollow download required.

📱 iPhone 📱 iPad 💻 Mac

Get FSXFollow on the App Store 🛫 X-Plane Mac Plugin 📦 Source Code (.zip)

What's inside

Cockpit panels

A320 Neo, 737 MAX, 747-8, 787-10 — PFD, ND/MFD, EICAS, MCDU, FCU, SAI, COM, ATC, BAT, BRK, Clock, NAV. Authentic Airbus MCDU pages: INIT, F-PLN, PROG, PERF, RAD NAV, FUEL PRED.

VATSIM live traffic

Tap a button on the Pilot Map or Radar to overlay 1,300+ online VATSIM pilots — orange aircraft icons with callsigns, refreshed every 15 seconds straight from the VATSIM v3 feed.

Traffic radar

Phosphor-green CRT scope, track-up, range rings out to 640 NM. AI + VATSIM contacts as triangles oriented by heading, runways drawn for every airport in range, off-scope arrows.

Route planner

Search 11,000 navaids + 79,000 airports by ICAO or name. One tap auto-fills VOR/NDB waypoints between departure and arrival along the great-circle path.

Approach & takeoff

Runway picker scored on headwind, crosswind, length, gust factor. Glideslope advisory with TOD, descent rate, Vref, on-profile status. Apple Look Around preview of short final.

Ground & FMS

Live gate-side data — jetway, parking spot, doors, services (catering / fuel / pushback / marshaller), assigned runway, COM 1. Flight plan view with FMS waypoint progress.

A look inside

Captured on iPhone 17 Pro Max — same app on iPad and Mac.

Live moving map with aircraft position, AI traffic and facilities overlay — Pilot Map

Grid of MSFS cockpit panels for A320, 737, 747 and 787 — Gauges — live MSFS panels

Phosphor-green CRT traffic radar with concentric range rings, sweep and AI traffic triangles — Traffic radar

Flight plan view with From/To header and waypoint list — Flight plan

Route planner with waypoint list, total NM and ETE — Route planner

METAR and TAF weather for the nearest airport — METAR & TAF

Approach planner with runway picker and glideslope advisory — Approach planner

Ground services view showing jetway, doors, catering and fuel status — Ground services

Live screenshot feed from the simulator's cockpit camera — Live sim stream

Airport directory with 79,000 airports indexed by ICAO, IATA and name — 79,000 airports

Why FSXFollow exists

In 2010, my girlfriend bought me an iPhone 3GS. The very first thing I did was search the App Store for a Microsoft Flight Simulator companion. There wasn't one — so I built it myself.

FSXFollow shipped that year as the first FSX flight tracker on iOS. Fifteen years later it's still going strong, now rebuilt from the ground up for MSFS 2024 with live cockpit panels, VATSIM traffic, a real MCDU, and a route planner. Same project, same one developer — still flying.

FSXFollow Client for Windows

Required for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, MSFS 2020, FSX, FS2004 and Prepar3D. The client connects your simulator to FSXFollow via SimConnect.

If you fly X-Plane 11 or 12, no Windows client is needed — X-Plane publishes telemetry natively and FSXFollow picks it up directly.

📥 Windows Client (v1.0.0)

Portable ZIP: Extract and run fsxfollowclient.exe

🛫 X-Plane Mac Plugin 📦 Source Code (.zip)

Quick Setup

1

Install the App: Download FSXFollow from the App Store on your Apple device — one app for MSFS and X-Plane.

2

Simulator Link:

MSFS 2024 / 2020 / FSX / FS2004 / Prepar3D: Download and run our Windows Client.
X-Plane 11/12: Enable data output in X-Plane — no extra software needed.

3

Fly: Start your flight. Your aircraft will automatically appear on the map in your Apple app!