Popular Post Orbx Posted December 1, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 1, 2021 The Volanta team have been working hard since we released v1.1 back in August, ensuring that Volanta remains the most innovative flight tracker in the industry. We managed to set a new concurrent connection record of 1,704 users flying during VATSIM's Cross the Pond event! Three lucky users won prizes during this event, along with more prizes won during our "Fright Flight" competition. All in all, it has been a busy few months for us! The community sends us feedback every single day through our various social channels (Discord, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram), letting us know how they think Volanta can be improved for everyone. The community feedback is what drives us to make Volanta better every single day, so from everyone at Team Volanta - thank you! Now, let's get to the exciting part! The updates that are mentioned below are still a work in progress, but we wanted to give you a sneak peek of what’s coming your way. Volanta v1.2 - Activities Update We are proud to announce our second major feature update, bringing you even more ways to fly: Volanta v1.2. This free update brings a whole host of new features to Volanta. We wanted to give our users more things to do. So, in v1.2, we have focused on expanding the activities available within Volanta. The “Challenges” page has been overhauled and replaced with “Activities”. This page will act as a hub for Volanta-powered experiences. You can discover new places to fly with Aerocaches, find new events on both multiplayer networks and Volanta, as well as searching comprehensive real-world schedules. More unique activities are in the works, we can’t wait to show you what we have coming. Real-World Schedules One of the most requested features from our community since launch is the ability to easily find real-world flights and callsigns. In Volanta v1.2, we are happy to announce that we have integrated global flight schedule data for Volanta Premium subscribers. Our data uses a real-world aviation feed, meaning we can provide up to a weekly refresh of our schedules, depending on real-world traffic. The ever-changing nature of our schedules will be especially evident as the aviation industry recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic. Picking a route is easy - just choose a departure airport and Volanta will visualise all available destinations from that airport. All you need to do is choose an arrival airport and you will be shown a list of real-world flights that have taken place on that route. Selecting an arrival airport will filter the schedule list and just show flights between the selected departure and arrival airport. The schedule list can be further filtered by airline, aircraft and flight time. After clicking a flight, you can then see even more details like the local departure and arrival times, and terminal+gate assignments for some airports. Want to plan a day of flying? Queue them up using Volanta’s new roster feature. The built-in roster shows a list of your upcoming flights. Flight schedules can be added to your roster with a simple click. Furthermore, Volanta can now scan your scenery in supported simulators (MSFS, XP, P3D) to show you more relevant airports - further assisting your flight planning decisions. More on that below. Schedules are exclusively available for Volanta Premium subscribers. Volanta Premium is only A$6.35 per month (less than $5 USD), or A$63.50 when purchased for a year (2 months free). Schedules join our comprehensive Premium features including flight parties, cloud auto-saves, 4K cloud screenshots and much more. Schedules open a lot of possibilities for us, stay tuned to see what we have in store for the future. Aerocaches With the release of Microsoft Flight Simulator, we’ve seen a massive increase in users flying visually and exploring new places. Aerocaches are a global treasure hunt. You’ll be given a clue, and the general area to look in. Discover the floating Volanta symbol and fly through it to capture that Aerocache. On your journey you will discover new places you may not have seen before, and learn more about the world we live in. Sharpen your flying and detective skills to find all of the Aerocaches we’ve hidden around the world. Aerocaches are optionally injected dynamically into all three major simulator platforms (Microsoft Flight Simulator, X-Plane 11 and Prepar3D v4+). We will be adding more and more Aerocaches over time, especially coinciding with Microsoft Flight Simulator’s World Updates. Online Network Events For those of you who enjoy flying on online networks such as VATSIM or IVAO, we have aggregated their events into a simple list - ensuring you never miss an event again. Events are shown on our powerful map, allowing you to visually see where you want to fly. If you intend to fly in an event, you can click the “I’m Going” button to let event organisers and community members know which events are the most popular. You can also receive a notification 30 minutes before an event begins, giving you enough time to prepare for your flight. A special thanks to the VATSIM and IVAO teams for providing event data. We’re very excited about the future possibilities this opens up! Scenery Map Another highly requested feature from the community was an integrated Scenery Map. In Volanta v1.2, you can scan supported simulators (MSFS, P3D, XP) and display your installed scenery on the Volanta map. Like most of Volanta, you’ll be able to view your scenery from the web and mobile too. This pairs great with our new Premium feature, Schedules, to show you where you can fly with real-world flights and callsigns. ---------- That’s Volanta v1.2: our activities update. We can’t wait to see how everyone in the community uses these new features. Remember, you can always let us know your feedback via our social media pages (Discord, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram). As always, the core features of Volanta will always remain free, with ongoing support. For those looking to expand their flying experience, Volanta Premium is for you! We want to thank everyone for the continued support. Since we launched in January, we’ve had feedback and ideas coming in from our community every single day. Without you, Volanta wouldn’t be where it is today! The Volanta Team 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilotskcx Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 Looking good guys. Are streamer tools still planned? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fahdriyami Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 Very excited for the scenery map. Please also add an option to view all the handcrafted World Update airports in MSFS. There are lots of hidden gems there that I often forget about. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJT375 Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 (edited) That scenery map is very exciting! Curious, any idea how it will interface with Justflight's Real Taxiways? https://www.justflight.com/product/real-taxiways-usa-military-airfields One complaint I have about that product is that in the simulator map screen, when choosing an airport, ALL airports in the US show up as being "special" and having scenery work done (example: https://imgur.com/a/cWTI69z). That's something I'd rather not see, personally. Edited December 2, 2021 by SJT375 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FBWFTW Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 Looking forward to this update for sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luca B Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 15 hours ago, pilotskcx said: Looking good guys. Are streamer tools still planned? Thanks. Hey! Streamer Tools are still planned! Watch this space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luca B Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 15 hours ago, fahdriyami said: Very excited for the scenery map. Please also add an option to view all the handcrafted World Update airports in MSFS. There are lots of hidden gems there that I often forget about. I'll pass this to the team and see if we can add it in! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombat Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 Hi Luca, any news on my log in problem from your developers? Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
787flyer Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 Looking forward to the Scenery Map updates. I am wondering if the scan of the sims for installed scenery will be able to detect those that are active versus disabled (i.e. in the P3D Scenery library)? There''s a few of us that do selectively enable/disable scenery, so if the scenery map could also detect that status it might be quite useful to end users if you have inadvertently forgotten to re-enable a specific scenery. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZldvX Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 Excited for this release you guys, especially the "Schedule" features. Is IVAO ATC coverage coming too ? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritishAvgeek Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 Awesome update! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike.K Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 (edited) Hi Luca and Team, a suggestion: I would like to have all of my screenshots displayed on the globe, as I am currently doing with an external app. If I want to look at all of my screenshots, it is a bit tedious at the moment to have to open the individual flights again and again. A general overview would be very good, with which one can continue to work. A kind of album function. Kind regards Mike Edited January 7, 2022 by Mike.K 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FBWFTW Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 On 1/7/2022 at 8:54 AM, Mike.K said: Hi Luca and Team, a suggestion: I would like to have all of my screenshots displayed on the globe, as I am currently doing with an external app. If I want to look at all of my screenshots, it is a bit tedious at the moment to have to open the individual flights again and again. A general overview would be very good, with which one can continue to work. A kind of album function. Kind regards Mike +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tman41291 Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 What about an option if you use a real-world aircraft registration that it uses photos from flight aware or even jet photos as your aircraft picture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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