Orbx released a new update for its flight tracker for flight simulators, Volanta, adding new features and improvements.
The completed flight screen will now show how many flights you have flown to your destination and display your rank for that airport.
New ranks have been added for airports above master, alongside a page to display these ranks.
New metrics with their leaderboards have also been implemented, alongside the ability to remove and edit block, departure, and arrival times from the statistics page of your active flight.
Speaking of times, the app will track if you are early by 15 minutes or more.
Turkish language has also been added, and more. You can check out the full update notes below, directly from Volanta’s Discord Server.
Enhancements
- Updated the completed flight screen to show the number of flights you’ve flown to your arrival airport and show your airport rank.
- Added a page under activities with a list of all airport ranks.
- Added more airport ranks above Master.
- Added new metrics to track and compare against in the leaderboard panel on your sidebar. You can see stats across users and teams who have their settings set to public. Leaderboards are calculated and live so the moment you land you should see the stats change.
- Block, departure and arrival times can now be edited or removed on the statistics page of your active flight.
- Added early punctuality status to flights, whose estimated or actual arrival time is 15 or more minutes before the scheduled one.
- Improved plugin update download speeds.
- Added Turkish language support.
- Added icons for the following ICAO codes: PA18, C30J, E55P, AN12, BT7, C680, S64, SR71, E45X.
- Improved usability of the mobile version of fly.volanta.app.
Fixes
- Improved plugin reconnection logic.
- Fixed aircraft locations not being correctly updated on diversions.
- Fixed flight lists on aircraft not showing diversions.
- Fixed landing rates not being imported from Elevatex.
- Fixed Tower Simulator 3 appearing as a supported simulator.
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. Subscribers can also get early access to updates.
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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