VATSIM Velocity

[Ramon Balimann]

Dear Members

As you hopefully already have seen on the VATSIM Channels, Velocity is finally here! With Velocity the refresh rate of position updates for aircrafts will raise from 5 seconds to five times per second. A big step for VATSIM! Great to see that we are with Velocity and Audio for VATSIM definitely the leading virtual Network

On 31. January at 22:00z they will release Velocity to the Network. For this, the servers will be down for around 30-45 Minutes. Once they are back up it will be communicated via Social Media as well the VATSIM Discord.

For Pilots: Please update your Pilot client as stated in this post.

For Controllers: Nothing to do for you this time. All Clients are ready for Velocity.

If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask.

Best regards

Ramon

[Florian Hofer]

For Controllers: Nothing to do for you this time. All Clients are ready for Velocity.

Does this apply from a specific release version of Euroscope?

[Ramon Balimann]

Does this apply from a specific release version of Euroscope?

As far as I know not, at least r26 which everyone should have. Euroscope will still only be able to update every 5 seconds so the controllers will not have a better experience (yet?) from this update.

[Michael Kühne]

Euroscope will still only be able to update every 5 seconds so the controllers will not have a better experience (yet?) from this update.

Which matches more or less the update rate for a CTR position

[Roger Walther]

vSTARS is supporting Velocity for pilot clients connected to it (Tower View).
Ross announced that eventually vSTARS will support a 1Hz rate.

I guess the same might eventually happen to ES...

[Thomas Wand]

Let's see how long it takes before the ATC clients include a variable to steer the update rate. Most CTR positions are, as Michael wrote, somewhere around 1 update every 5 seconds. Some airports, such as Innsbruck, interrogate SSR once a second, but that's probably the exception.