Runway stop bars,
lit when you hold.
XPGuard shows controlled stop bars on the ground in X-Plane 12. When you're held short, the bar glows red. When you're cleared, the lights go off — right on the hold-short markings.
From the web console to your taxiway.
One stop bar, three steps. An admin sets it on the web, XPGuard syncs, and the lights appear on the ground in front of you.
Set from the web
An admin manages a field's stop bars from the XPGuard web console, runway by runway, as the ground works. EuroScope / VATSIM controller integration is planned.
Web consoleSynced in real time
Every change relays through XPGuard to every pilot connected at that airport, the same moment it happens.
Live networkLit on the ground
The XPGuard plugin draws the bar exactly on the hold-short markings — red to hold, off to roll.
X-Plane 12 pluginBuilt to feel like the real ground.
No lag, no reload
Set or drop a bar and pilots see it the same moment. The ground stays in sync with the controller.
Exactly where it belongs
Stop bars sit on the real hold-short positions, mapped straight onto the runways.
Drawn the light way
Lights use X-Plane's instancing API, so your frame rate doesn't notice they're there.
Any airport in the sim
A thin client over X-Plane 12's global airport database — stopbars appear wherever the community has published a map.
The real language
A lit red bar holds you short. Cleared, the lights go off. The same logic as the stop bars on a real taxiway.
Community-mapped
Airport stopbar maps are built by the community and expanding, field by field.
For the pilot, and for the ground.
Hold short like the real world
Install the plugin, fly online, and watch stop bars light up wherever the ground is being worked.
- Drop-in X-Plane 12 plugin
- Bars appear automatically at your airport
- A control panel to preview and test any field
Run the ground from the web
Today an admin drives every stop bar from the XPGuard web console — no scenery edits, no coordination needed. Direct EuroScope / VATSIM controller integration is on the roadmap.
- Set and clear bars from the web console
- Click a bar to hold; click again to clear
- Pilots see it instantly across the network
Where XPGuard works.
XPGuard is a thin client over X-Plane 12's global airport database — every airport in the sim, around 31,000 fields, is indexed. Stopbars light up wherever the community has published a map.
Know an airport that needs stop bars? Map it in the web editor.
Built by the people who fly it.
XPGuard grows when pilots and controllers map their home airports. Here's how to pitch in.
Add an airport
Sign in, open the airport by ICAO in the web map editor, draw the stop bars over the runways, and submit — an admin reviews and publishes.
See it in the sim
Contribution mode shows your in-progress edits on the ground in X-Plane 12 as you map, so you can check every bar before you submit.
Test on VATSIM
Fly the ground, find what's off, and tell us where a bar sits wrong.
Ready to hold short?
Download XPGuard, connect to VATSIM, and fly the ground like it's real. Free to use.