0.4.4
Big thanks to Felix and DotWallop for making this release possible!
Highlights
- π Featured Airports popup
- π¦πΊ Australia extending sectors support
βοΈ New aircraft icons- π Airport Arrival rate
- πΊοΈ Carto Vector layer
- β¨ Many UI/UX improvements
- π§ Bug fixes to TRACON rendering - and much more
Featured Airports
- View airports with much traffic from all around the world
- View quiet, yet staffed airports to find interesting places to go, learn to fly, or support lonely controller in your area
- Filter by visible only to view this stats in specific area
New aircraft icons
- Updated helicopter icons matching
- Added new aircraft icons, thanks to DotWallop: A345, A346, A3ST, A400, AN24, B1, B2, B37(8,9)M, BCS1, C152, C17, C172, C208, C25C, DA40, DC10, DC3, DH8(A,B,C,D), DHC(2,6,7), EC45, EH10, F(14,15,16,18,22,35), GLID, KODI, SHIP, BALL, A10, A748, BE58, C130, C700, C750, CL60, E135, F117, G2CA
Arrival rate
View Arrival Rate for airport with 15 minutes splits in Airport Dashboard and Overlay!
Carto Vector layer
Added new Map Layer - Carto Vector Mode! Rendered in your browser with more bright dark theme
Features and improvements
Noticeable features
- Added airport arrival rate
- You can now switch to departed aircraft in airport overlay
- Added Australia extending sectors support
- Added featured airports
- Added support for Ramp controllers - mapped to Ground for now
- Brand new Patreon page has been added to highlight our fellow supporters and our goals
- Removed MapBox and Jawg map layers, added Carto Vector layer
UI/UX
- Reworked approach labels placement to always be on the line
- Unstaffed airport ICAO is now also drawn above aircraft
- Pilot popups can now be closed by clicking on them
- Airport label click priotity is now higher than aircraft
- Updated aircraft missclick protection to be less agressive
- Updated tracks palette with separate colors for light and dark themes
- Removed height limit for aircraft list
- Changed runway number color
- Reworked dashboard map height for different modes - so it will always fit on screen
- Reworked the way approach controllers disappear from screen. From now on, if at least one coordinate of tracon is
visible, it will continue to show on map even with large zoom - UI/UX improvements for: pilot hover card, ATC short card, pilot overlay, airport flight card
- Changed approach sectors color to highlight them
- You will now be able to zoom over controller popup if it has no scroll
- Pilot overlay will now close if you hover over right side of header, right of pilot's callsign
Improvements
- Pilot select in Airport Dashboard will now also open pilot in dashboard itself
- Added airports names to aircraft on-hover popup
- Transition display now clarifies where you can find level and altitude
- Map filter dropdown is now open for new users by default
- You can now also send links for callsign instead of CID, for example, "https://vatsim-radar.com/?pilot=SBI437"
- Reworked stepclimbs display to show waypoints and whole stepclimbs list
- Added kilometers support for stepclimbs display
- Added support for predefined labels coordinates from SimAware TRACON
- Added COM2 and SQUAWK on aircraft hover for airport dashboard
- If your data was not updated for more than 20 seconds, footer map update date will now become red
- Pilots without flight plan will now be noticeable in airport's departures popup
- Added Github releases workflow to easily track new versions
Bug Fixes
- Fixed some of SimAware tracons rendered as circles, like CHI_Z_APP
- Fixed some of SimAware tracons that had labels rendering in ocean without any tracon displayed
- UMKK will now show in Russia instead of Belarus
- Fixed some airports were showing division undefined and empty name in airport info
- Map will stop shaking when opening aircraft near to the ocean
- Fixed aircraft track line for oceanic flights
- Fixed an error when your aircraft spawn would not focus and zoom to you
- Fixed rare issues with duplicate airports
- Fixed an issue for TAF Valid field when time displayed hours two times instead of minutes
- Fixed a rare issue when runway text could stay when zooming out
- Fixed an issue when you could sometimes have two aircraft tracked at once with map unusable at this point
- Fixed an issue when midflight arrival change caused flight path disappear
- Fixed airport track line disappearing for midflight connections
Fixed an issue with approach TRACONs could sometimes lead to duplicate empty airport shown on map - Fixed an issue when SQUAWK info tooltip was misaligned if pilot didn't have any frequencies tuned
- Improved great circle support for transoceanic flights that had disconnects