Train on the ground. Fly with Tropiq.
Connect Tropiq to Microsoft Flight Simulator, X-Plane, or Prepar3D and the EFB works exactly like it does in the airplane. Map tracking, glide ring, airspace and terrain alerts, traffic — all driven by your simulator. Built for students, CFIs, and flight schools who want EFB proficiency before the first real flight.
Any major sim
MSFS 2020/2024, X-Plane 11/12, Prepar3D
Same local Wi-Fi
No internet, no accounts, no cloud
Full feature parity
Same map, alerts, glide ring, traffic, and geo-referenced plates as real flight
The EFB should not be new on checkride day.
By the time a student pilot solos, they should be fluent with their EFB — not still fumbling for the CRAFT scratchpad while ATC reads their clearance, or hunting for the airport diagram while taxiing in the dark. Tropiq's Flight Simulator Mode lets students build that fluency at home, on the sim, using the exact same app they'll fly with. Every briefing, every ATIS tap, every airspace alert, every pattern entry — rehearsed on the ground until the workflow is second nature.
- Students build EFB muscle memory before their first real flight
- IFR students rehearse approach briefings and missed procedures with real geo-referenced plates
- Flight schools standardize on one EFB for sim lab and airplane
- Pattern entries, ATIS workflow, and emergency procedures practiced without burning Hobbs time
Home sim — Tuesday 7:42 PM
KAPA → KFNL
Pattern work · Runway 17L
Home sim — Wednesday 8:15 PM
KAPA → KEGE
Mountain cross-country · IFR briefing
C172 N2739P — Saturday 9:14 AM
KAPA → KEGE
Same route. Same EFB. First time airborne.
Same EFB. Same workflow. From the home sim to first solo.
How the connection works.
Flight sims expose real-time aircraft data through their APIs — SimConnect for MSFS, native UDP for X-Plane. A lightweight connector on your PC re-broadcasts that data over your local Wi-Fi using the open XGPS / XTRAFFIC protocol on port 49002. Tropiq listens on the same network, ingests position and AI traffic, and injects them into the same pipeline that handles real GPS and ADS-B. No spoofing, no cloud round-trip, no subscription middleware. Just your sim, your Wi-Fi, and your phone.
- UDP on port 49002 — the open XGPS network protocol
- No internet connection required after initial install
- Position and AI traffic both flow through; sim weather is not injected
- Works on Android today; built on the same protocol iOS supports
Flight Simulator
MSFS 2020/2024 · X-Plane · Prepar3D
Bridge app + Wi-Fi
fs2ff · FlightEvents · X-Plane native · UDP 49002
Tropiq on your device
Position + AI traffic injected into the live pipeline
Protocol
XGPS / XTRAFFIC
Port
UDP 49002
Network
Local Wi-Fi
Every feature. Same as a real flight.
Simulator position and traffic are injected into the same providers that drive every live flight. The app has no idea it's flying a sim — and neither does your training.
Moving map + ownship tracking
Heading cone rotates as you taxi, climb, and turn.
Glide ring in real time
Updates with sim altitude, groundspeed, and vertical speed.
Terrain & obstacle alerts
The same USGS 3DEP elevation data that powers real flights.
Airspace alerting
Fly into Class B without a clearance and Tropiq calls it out — just like in the airplane.
Live AI traffic as ADS-B
MSFS AI aircraft show up as color-coded traffic chevrons.
Geo-referenced plates
Fly RNAV, ILS, and visual approaches with the FAA plate showing your sim aircraft on the chart.
Train your traffic scan in the sim.
Live AI aircraft from MSFS or X-Plane stream into Tropiq as ADS-B targets — color-coded chevrons by relative altitude, audio callouts when traffic is a threat, the same closing-rate analysis the app runs in the airplane. Practice a 45-degree pattern entry into a busy untowered field with five other Cubs in the sky. Rehearse the see-and-avoid scan on the way into Bravo. Build the muscle memory of cross-checking the screen against the windshield — without paying for Hobbs time or risking real metal.
- AI traffic streams in as color-coded chevrons — white distant, yellow proximate, red threat
- Audio callouts: "Traffic, 11 o'clock, low, 1.2 miles" — same engine as in the airplane
- Closing-rate threat ranking, not just proximity — train pilots to spot real conflicts
- Practice busy untowered patterns and Class B transitions without booking an aircraft
- Build the windshield-to-screen-to-windshield scan habit before solo cross-country
Audio callout
"Traffic, 11 o'clock, low, 0.8 miles."
Built for flight schools.
Standardize every student on the same EFB from their first sim session. Train the workflow before spending Hobbs time learning where the menus are. Your students graduate with EFB proficiency that transfers directly to the flight deck — and IFR candidates can stay sharp on procedures between aircraft availability.
- One EFB across sim bays and aircraft — no app switching between stages
- CFIs train students on a single workflow — sim, pattern, cross-country, and IFR all in one app
- IFR students stay current on plates and procedures even when aircraft are booked
- Pattern work, pre-takeoff briefings, and ATIS workflow rehearsed before first solo
- Works on iOS and Android — no hardware mandate for students or schools
Sim Lab
12
Desktop sim stations
Flight Line
6
Training aircraft
Students
48
Active learners
EFBs
1
Tropiq — everywhere
Works with every major sim.
If your sim speaks SimConnect or XGPS, Tropiq can listen. No per-sim plugin to maintain.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
SupportedVia fs2ff or FlightEvents. AI traffic flows through as ADS-B targets.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
SupportedSame SimConnect tooling as MSFS 2020.
X-Plane 12
SupportedBroadcasts XGPS natively — no bridge app needed.
X-Plane 11
SupportedNative XGPS output on port 49002.
Prepar3D
SupportedSimConnect-compatible — connect via fs2ff.
Setup in under five minutes.
No accounts, no cloud services, no configuration files. Sim → bridge app → toggle → fly.
Open the sim and launch a flight
MSFS 2020/2024, X-Plane 11/12, or Prepar3D. Enable AI traffic in the sim options if you want traffic chevrons.
Start the bridge app on your PC
fs2ff is the simplest — double-click the .exe and it auto-detects. Or use FlightEvents for richer multi-app routing. X-Plane broadcasts natively with no bridge app at all.
Toggle Flight Simulator Mode on in Tropiq
Settings → Simulation → Flight Simulator Mode. Phone and PC need to be on the same Wi-Fi.
Fly
Within a second or two the status flips to "Receiving data" — your ownship icon is now at the sim aircraft location.
Android phone or tablet required for v1. iOS simulator support is on the roadmap — iOS's UDP backgrounding rules need more testing before shipping.