VATSIM Velocity

[John McMurdo]

When I read about the update, and learned that xSB was being retired,  I was a little worried, since being a Linux user my options are limited,  but I was very relieved to find xPilot worked fine once I got it up and running,  and model matching works a lot better too for me.  I have also seen a big improvement in frame rate,  not sure if that is to do with the update or switching to xPilot. Only issue I had with xPilot is that if I turn on engine sounds, all I get is white noise so I turn it off.  It is not something I had with xSB anyway,  so its not something I am going to miss.

I always used to find it amusing to see planes skating sideways across the apron, but I am assuming this is one of the things the update will make less likely.

[Danny Moore]

Using latest vPilot, aircraft are still floating until they move. Last night myself and a friend, both using vPilot observed floating planes. When we were parked at KLAS, he was floating and slowly rotating upside down until he started his pushback and he observed me normally on the ground. When we were landing in KSAN we both observed a Southwest 737 floating in the air on arrival. Again it wasn’t until they started pushback when they settled back on the ground. My friend was in P3D and I was using 2020. One other strange observation noted was aircraft lights whizzing by like little UFOs but there was no planes within 20 miles of me.  I’m also observing what sounds like engine noise next to me when there is no plane there. Not sure if that’s a FBW A320 bug as all my flights have been on Vatsim. I’ll do a few off line to see what I hear.

Edited February 5, 2022 at 12:21 PM by Danny Moore

[James McMannamy]

I signed in for the first time since the Velocity update (updated vPilot when I loaded it).  Saw a couple of planes nose down into the ground and a floater at the gate, but overall looked good.

One new issue I have suddenly is that I will get random TA’s and RA’s with no aircraft around me.  This is with FSLabs A321SL and P3Dv5.  The only thing that has changed is the vPilot version, which is why I suspect it has something to do with that.

[Alistair Thomson]

49 minutes ago, James McMannamy said:

Saw a couple of planes nose down into the ground and a floater at the gate, but overall looked good.

A bit like the curate's egg?

[Danny Moore]

I’m getting the TCAS hits in the TFDI 717 and watched planes warp speed all over the place.  I wrote down and contacted the pilots that were all over my moving map software and they were all xplane users. I hope this and the elevation issues get resolved soon. 

Edited February 6, 2022 at 03:22 AM by Danny Moore

[Ross Carlson]

The warping planes and weird pitch/roll attitudes for parked aircraft should be fixed in vPilot 3.0.7.

Edited February 6, 2022 at 06:35 AM by Ross Carlson

[Marc Wheeler]

Since Velocity has been implemented, there is an increased amount of disconnects from the VATSIM servers using the latest version of vPilot w/ P3Dv5 (Canada, USA-W, USA-E).

I do not think I have done one flight where there was not at least one or two disconnects, sometimes more.

I checked with fellow VA pilots to see if I was the only one having this issue and it seems to be wide spread.

I am sure this will get worked out eventually, but wanted to pass on the information on to the higher powers.

 

Regards,

 

[Brad Crockett]

XPilot Towerview is behaving strangely for me. FIrst time I've used it in a while.

When I start Towerview, aircraft render normally. But as aircraft move, they do NOT update in XPlane. They remain fixed. If I disconnect XPilot and then re-start Towerview, they render in an updated position, but still don't move.

I'm currently running V1.9.5.

[Ross Carlson]

Your xPilot is out of date. Also, it'll only work with vSTARS as the towerview server. ES has not been updated yet, to my knowledge.

[Brad Crockett]

Hi, Ross. Thank you so much for the response.

I'm such a dope, I posted the version of AFV I was running (1.9.5), NOT the version of XPilot. 😞

I'm actually experiencing this issue with XPilot v2.2.0-beta.31.

Brad

[Ross Carlson]

Using ES or vSTARS?

[Juan Amado]

On 2/28/2022 at 3:27 AM, Ross Carlson said:

Using ES or vSTARS?

I have the same problem for towerview (tfc rendering at the beginning but not updating) so I guess he uses ES. I use ES beta r33 and xPilot 2.0.0-beta.32.

Let's wait until ES is updated to velocity or xPilot adds the possibility to towerview with Euroscope.

[Andreas Fuchs]

If you are desperate for TowerView in Euroscope, give swift a shot until ES has been updated.