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VATSIM Velocity


Erich Berner
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Erich Berner
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Hi all,

I remember reading about Velocity quite a while back and was really excited to hear about the lag and jittery type movements being done away with when the new software releases.  I have been doing quite a bit of online flying recently and it occurred to me that those juttery, jerking movements still exist.  The only information I have seen on the latest update was last posted in April this year.   

Has Velocity become another victim of flightsim projects which just die, or is it still a thing.  It was last in Alpha.  Seen no talk of Beta.

Cheers

eric

 

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Lars Bergmann
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Nope, it is still being worked on.

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Erich Berner
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2 minutes ago, Lars Bergmann said:

Nope, it is still being worked on.

That's super.  Is there any more information than that though?

Still in Alpha, Beta?  Broad release timeline I'm guessing '2022'?  

Cheers

eric

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Alexandra Robison
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On 12/21/2021 at 4:43 AM, Erich Berner said:

That's super.  Is there any more information than that though?

Still in Alpha, Beta?  Broad release timeline I'm guessing '2022'?  

Cheers

eric

We are actively working on getting it released as soon as possible. Stay tuned, we will have more information soon!

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Erich Berner
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On 12/23/2021 at 3:45 AM, Alexandra Robison said:

We are actively working on getting it released as soon as possible. Stay tuned, we will have more information soon!

That's great news Alexandra

If I recall correctly, when I first read about Velocity about two years back, one of the big appeals for me was the elimination of obvious lag, stuttery ground movement and the springboard-like takeoff    of aircraft.  Is my understanding correct that these visual issues are eliminated with Velocity

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Robert Shearman Jr
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12 hours ago, Erich Berner said:

That's great news Alexandra

If I recall correctly, when I first read about Velocity about two years back, one of the big appeals for me was the elimination of obvious lag, stuttery ground movement and the springboard-like takeoff    of aircraft.  Is my understanding correct that these visual issues are eliminated with Velocity

Yes, correct.

 

Cheers,
-R.

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Alexandra Robison
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On 1/22/2022 at 2:54 AM, Erich Berner said:

That's great news Alexandra

If I recall correctly, when I first read about Velocity about two years back, one of the big appeals for me was the elimination of obvious lag, stuttery ground movement and the springboard-like takeoff    of aircraft.  Is my understanding correct that these visual issues are eliminated with Velocity

We announced Velocity March 2021, so two years is a bit of a stretch. Our large scale test a few weeks ago went very well, so hopefully we will have more news soon!

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Brett Jenkins
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Excited to see velocity coming out later. Quick question, the blog post says that euroscope won't be affected, but will it still get access to the new data? I'm just thinking of people who use towerview to watch from the tower on a sim client via euroscope, will this still get the new frequency of updates or will it be stuck to the old frequency of updates?

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Don Desfosse
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I can't speak to Euroscope, but Ross has stated that vSTARS will be getting an update to benefit the vSTARS Tower View.

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Marcelo Farah
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Just one question, with VatSim Velocity, do we have to use xpilot or can we use another pilot client such as swift?

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Don Desfosse
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vPilot, xPilot and Swift will all work.

https://www.vatsim.net/pilots/pilot-clients

Don Desfosse
Vice President, Operations

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Kevin Townsend
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Updated vPilot tonight in order to try out the new Velocity client.

What a pity.

Unable to join tonight.. Network error: Too many clients connected.
Tried UK, Germany and Canada - same result....

537 is too many? Really?

The only time you have too much fuel onboard is when you're on fire!

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Kirk Christie
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6 minutes ago, Kevin Townsend said:

Updated vPilot tonight in order to try out the new Velocity client.

What a pity.

Unable to join tonight.. Network error: Too many clients connected.
Tried UK, Germany and Canada - same result....

537 is too many? Really?

The network was to be taken off-line at 2200z, for approx 30-45 mins, people have been asked not to connect during that time, it's 2243z my guess is its not finished yet and you should wait till you are told you can re connect.

 

Kirk Christie - VATPAC C3

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Worldflight Perth 737-800 Crew Member

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Trevor Hannant
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9 minutes ago, Kevin Townsend said:

Updated vPilot tonight in order to try out the new Velocity client.

What a pity.

Unable to join tonight.. Network error: Too many clients connected.
Tried UK, Germany and Canada - same result....

537 is too many? Really?

When upgrades have happened in the past, a restricted number of people have been given access to test things before they open the floodgates and allow everyone to crack on - I'm sure there will be an announcement made in due course.

Trevor Hannant

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Danny Moore
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I'm on the new system and a lot of the planes are below the ground. I say 1/4 of the planes in Boston only show the tail sticking up. 

 

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Kevin Townsend
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1 hour ago, Kirk Christie said:

The network was to be taken off-line at 2200z, for approx 30-45 mins, people have been asked not to connect during that time, it's 2243z my guess is its not finished yet and you should wait till you are told you can re connect.

OK Thanks Kirk. I did try later and did an hour flight, all worked well.
I guess I'm just too keen!

 

The only time you have too much fuel onboard is when you're on fire!

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Jorge Rizzo
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Hello good, I downloaded the new xpilot client and when trying to connect to the network, it crashes and xplane closes. Is it a known problem or am I doing something wrong?

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Ross Carlson
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1 hour ago, Danny Moore said:

I'm on the new system and a lot of the planes are below the ground. I say 1/4 of the planes in Boston only show the tail sticking up. 

 

This is fixed in vPilot 3.0.2 ... if you are using a different client, it's a known issue that will be fixed soon.

Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy

Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC

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Danny Moore
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21 minutes ago, Ross Carlson said:

This is fixed in vPilot 3.0.2 ... if you are using a different client, it's a known issue that will be fixed soon.

Sounds good. I’m using the version pushed down today. 3.0.1

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Ross Carlson
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Restart the client and it should update to 3.0.2 and this takes care of it. There will still be some planes that are a few inches or a few feet above ground, that's a separate issue that I'm going to work on. It's due to size differences in the model being flown by the pilot and the model used to render them in the sim.

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Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy

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Robert Bressert
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Hey Ross,

Thanks for all your tireless efforts and invaluable labor on behalf of all of us.  V-pilot is a wonderful client! 

Bob Bressert

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Matthias Froemmel
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Hello and thanks for the velocity-update. I did find an issue with planes taxiing and parking aloft.

I was using MSFS with vpilot 3.0.3.

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Ross Carlson
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That is most likely due to a known issue with pilots using the swift client. It is not sending altitudes correctly.

Developer: vPilot, VRC, vSTARS, vERAM, VAT-Spy

Senior Controller, Boston Virtual ARTCC

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Matthias Froemmel
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Ah, thanks for the reply. So there is nothing I'm doing wrong. Thanks a lot.

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