Orbx recently updated Volanta with a real-time tracking feature for premium members, polling the aircraft’s position locally every second. The new update also brings several bug fixes and new enhancements.

Update 1.11 is one of Volanta’s most significant updates yet, featuring real-time tracking for premium members, improved map performance, ultra-low hardware usage when minimized, 3D mode tweaks, and much more. The complete changelog follows below:

Premium Enhancements

• Real-time tracking allows premium users to track their flights with 1 second server updates when maneuvering and even quicker in the local client. Say goodbye to choppy flight paths and hello to smooth turns!

Enhancements

• Other Volanta pilots’ flights are updated more frequently and they move on a predicted flight path multiple times a second.
• Added a real-time tracking section to General settings, where quicker position and predictive updates can be turned off for lower-end systems.
• Improved map performance. Volanta will now also cease most performance-intensive activities when minimized (apart from tracking your flight, of course).
• Added handcrafted airports to the scenery filter for schedules.
• If you share multiple teams with the same users, their color on the map will now be based on which teams are pinned.
• When creating a new aircraft from the active flight page, the registration you typed in to search will be carried over.
• Reduced the number of artifacts appearing in 3D mode when on the ground or below 3000 feet. See pictures below for before / after.

Fixes

• Fixed map centering not always centering aircraft in the middle of the screen.
• Fixed top-of-descent marker not showing.
• Fixed flight following not deactivating when dragging away on the map.
• Fixed the map tilting too far down.
• Fixed empty chat messages being sent.
• Fixed VATSIM center labels being clickable even when the VATSIM coverage map layer is turned off.
• Fixed screenshots sometimes being recorded with 0,0 coordinates.

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