vAMSYS 5.3.26
It’s been a very busy week - 5.3.26 brings substantial improvements to vAMSYS.
Dispatch Table Changes
Virtual Airlines can now fully customize the Dispatch Table defaults in Orwell Settings → Booking & Dispatch:
Column Management
Drag-and-drop to reorder columns as you prefer
Set which columns are visible by default for new visitors
Rename any column with custom labels (e.g., rename "Tags" to "Route Type")
Airport Display Options
Choose how departure and arrival airports are displayed independently:
Days of Operation Format
Abbreviated: Mon, Tue, Wed, Daily
Numeric: 1234567 (except when all 7 are picked, then it’s Daily)
Default Sorting
Set which column the table sorts by when pilots first visit
Choose ascending or descending order
Note: Pilots can still toggle columns and change sorting during their session - their preferences are remembered. These settings control what new visitors or expired sessions see by default.
Community Goals & Challenges
Community Goals are collective achievements where every pilot contributes. File qualifying PIREPs, and passengers, cargo, or flight count automatically adds to the Goal-wide total.
Community Challenges add a competitive twist: teams compete against each other (e.g., Team Longhaul vs Team Shorthaul, or Passengers vs Cargo, or Day-Time vs Night-Time, or East-Coast vs West Coast - options are endless!). PIREPs are automatically assigned to a team based on criteria you set.
Registration: Neither Activity type requires registration - all PIREPs are evaluated if they contribute towards Goal/Challenge. Pick what to count: Passengers, freight, flights, distance, or flight time. Set flexible filters: Specific airport groupings, distance ranges, fleets, online networks, landing quality requirements, night operations, and more Rewards
Participation points for every qualifying PIREP
Completion bonus when the Goal hits 100% or for winning team in a challenge
Tiered rewards based on contribution rank (Top 10%, 25%, 50%, 75%) — Elite Dangerous style
Note: For Community Challenges it’s up to you to create unambigious teams with the filters - PIREPs should only be attributable to Team 1, Team 2 or neither; If the filters set up make it possible to PIREP to apply to both Teams, it will be assigned to Team 1 goals.
Activity API & Webhooks
Just in time for January 4th 2026 retirement of API v2.
API v3 for activities dramatically expands on capabilities, bringing full parity with UI - all activities are retrievable, editable and so on - everything you may expect.
We have undertook some initial testing - and everything check out, but as always - be very cautious with APIs marked experimental - Tour/Roster/Goal/Challenge creation can be very complicated; Just as with Importers/Exporters - it’s always a good idea to create an activity manually and then look at the API ‘Show’ response to get a very good idea how data is structured.
Furthermore, 8 webhook events were added to help you track activity creation, update deletion as well as related registrations and logbooks.
Ability to register a pilot for Activity will come with the Pilot API
Other Changes
Fixed an issue with Phoenix Flight List sometimes throwing an error when one of the in-progress flights has an airport with no ICAO code
Fixed missing flags in marker popups in maps
Fixed a data collection issue in PIREP API when editing bonus points
Fixed Badges API documentation lacking proper details for badge rules
Improved PIREP Review page by collapsing Container listing in Flight Dispatch automatically
Improved Routings functionality with the addition of Tags; These can be entered via UI, Importer or API; Can be used to filter down Export or API.
Fixed Flex Temperature not showing in SimBrief OFP Preview in Dispatch page.
Added View in Phoenix button for Activities in the table.
Added ‘Positioning’ radio selector for Image elements in Custom Pages, letting to align left/right/center image. Optional - alignment is left by default.
Improved Route Create & Create Return in Orwell - it will copy over callsign, flight number and fleet selection to new create form.
Added livery_status return in List PIREPs data return
