Hello guys!
I hope you had a very nice Christmas.
We are also very excited to share some big updates on our service, which I’ll list below.
- We added flags icons to indicate the departure/arrival countries to the front cards.
- We now support several pre-ranking filters:
- You can filter flights by length/duration.
- You can specify the departure/arrival country (or both)
- You can specify how much traffic you want at arrival/departure or both.
- You can specify whether you want controller at departure/arrival or both.
- You can specify whether you want the arrival/departure airport to be part of an event (or both).
- You can specify the arrival or departure airport.
- You can select a preset list of airports to generate flights from (say a list of 20 airports you usually flight between)
- Filters are all stored so next time you access they will be preloaded exactly as you left them.
- We have added a couple more sources of candidate flights (user past flights and most common flights hourly in the last 30 days).
- The display name requirement has been removed as it provides no clear benefit.
Note: Filters are applied during the pre-ranking stage and can significantly reduce the pool of flights reaching the ranking phase, depending on the filter combinations. However, all remaining flights are ranked just like any others.
Hope you enjoy and find these new updates useful. As always don’t hesitate to reach us if you have any comments/questions, etc.
Regards,
Luis
vatsim-dispatcher.org