Today, Orbx released a major update for Volanta, its flight tracking application for flight simulators.
The update, numbered 1.12, includes a number of spiffy features on top of the usual bug fixes and stability improvements.
An interesting one is reserved for premium users, who will be able to customize their profile with elements like highlighted screenshots and selected displayed flights.
New features for everyone are no less useful, and they include the ability to pause tracking to keep your flight path clean when something goes wrong with your simulator. This can be done manually or automatically when your sim crashes.
A nice quality-of-life feature is the ability to add tags to multiple flights at once. You can check out the full changelog below, directly from Volanta’s Discord server.
Premium enhancements,
- You can now customize your profile with the new paintbrush icon! Select which flights are visible when someone visits your profile and which screenshots should be highlighted (up to 3) instead of the most liked ones.,
Enhancements,
- We are introducing an option to pause tracking in the top right menu for active flights. While it is on, no position updates will be sent to the server, so your flight path can remain clean while you get back to the right position after loading an autosave. If you have real-time tracking enabled, the aircraft icon will still move around, showing where tracking will be picked up when you turn it back on.,
- A new setting for automatically pausing tracking was added to General → Automation, which will detect if your simulator disconnected or crashed mid-flight. This option is off by default, make sure to turn it on if you experience simulator crashes regularly!,
- In order to facilitate adding tags to many flights, edit mode on the flights list now allows you to select a number of flights and add or remove tags from them.,
- You can now hover at any point on the flight path chart and it will show the data values from all three datasets, instead of having to find the hover spot for each individual data point when browsing through the data.,
- We also added an automatic importer for ELEVATEX data, which will automatically filter out flights and aircraft imported originally from Volanta.,
- Stability and performance improvements.,
Fixes,
- Fixed the 3D flight path disappearing in the middle of an active flight in some rare cases.,
- Fixed not being able to open some Simbrief briefings on older flights due to image encoding errors.,
- Fixed flight time being recorded as 0 in some cases.,
- Fixed double scrollbars appearing on the flight list page.,
- Fixed ground speed on flight path charts going behind ground altitude, making taxi speeds often invisible.
- Fixed hiding either altitude or ground altitude hiding the altitude, labels on the left side, even if the other dataset is visible on flight path charts.
If you’re unfamiliar with Volanta, it’s a flight-tracking application published by Orbx that is free to download, including a growing set of features on top of the basic ability to track your flights.
You can also opt to pay a premium subscription monthly or yearly to unlock even more advanced features.
Volanta is platform-agnostic, so it’s compatible with all major simulators, including Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, Microsoft Flight Simulator, X-Plane, DCS World, Prepar3D, and more.
It’s currently available for PC, iOS, and Android, on top of a handy web browser version, which you can check out without an account to see who’s flying at any given time.
