Today, Orbx released another update of its flight tracking application for flight simulators, Volanta.
The most relevant addition to the app is the ability to signal diversions, alongside their (optional) reasons. Diverted aircraft will appear red on the map.
Interestingly, we also get an option that will let us save VRAM at the cost of some visual fidelity of the map. Considering that VRAM is precious in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and 2020, this is likely to be welcome among many.
There’s more, alongside the usual serving of fixes to improve the quality of the experience.
Here are the full patch notes from Volanta’s official Discord server.
Enhancements
- Diversions are here! You can now report a diversion from the flight menu on the top right of the flight card. Diverting planes appear red on the map and their punctuality status shows that they are diverting. You can also add the reason for your diversion on the notes page.
- We added a setting in General → Display to override DPI upscaling. Turning this option to low or off will improve VRAM usage significantly, especially on high-res displays, but at the cost of the map becoming slightly blurry.
- We updated the design of tooltips you see when hovering over aircraft icons on the map to include aircraft images.
- The flight path color range has been updated to be white on the ground and go through a larger range of colors at higher altitudes.
Fixes
- Fixed punctuality mode (block vs flight time) appearing clickable on other users’ flights.
- The punctuality date picker will now show the correct date when the scheduled time in the local timezone falls on a different date than the UTC day.
If you’re unfamiliar with Volanta, it’s a flight-tracking application published by Orbx that is free to download and comes with 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 like Scheduled pause and more.
Volanta is platform-agnostic, so it works with all major flight simulators, including Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, 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.
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