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vAMSYS 5.2.7

Clearing out Could be Improved backlog today with small tweaks to iron out some rough edges and improve existing functionality.

Phoenix → Flight Dispatch

5.2.6, as requested by our VA Customers, added foolproof way to ensure the correct fleet/aircraft is selected when making a booking - this is to protect pilots against disappointment when they book wrong aircraft and then get their PIREP rejected/invalidated.

5.2.7 adds the option for VAs to revert back to how 5.2 was prior to 5.2.6 and let the dispatcher select a random aircraft. Setting is located in Orwell → HQ → Settings → Booking & Dispatch → Dispatch Functions → Require Explicit Aircraft Selection.

Aditionally, Users who feel confident and don’t want the extra handholding, can enable bypass setting in Phoenix → My Profile → Account Settings → Global Preferences → Bypass Explicit Aircraft Selection.

Furthermore, Explicit Aircraft Selection functionality is further improved - when only 1 fleet is available, revert to old logic and pick aircraft from favorites, then at random;

Other Changes:

  • Dispatch via SimBrief toggle moved to Dispatch Details section in Dispatch

  • SimBrief Airframe Profile and Update Airframes sections moved to Dispatch Details section in Dispatch

  • SimBrief settings fieldset moved out of parent Flight Options

  • Flight Options moved above Payload

Phoenix → Pilot Profile

  • Changed it so pilot profile link cannot be opened when logged in at another VA.

  • Removed PIREP Comments section from public profile to be in line with public PIREP view where we do not show comments and treat them as private.

  • Added Copy Profile URL to pilots profile page so they can get a shareable link should they wish.

Phoenix → PIREP Comments

  • Migrated 5.0 PIREP comments to 5.2 - something we forgot to do after 5.2 launch;

  • Removed all PIREP comments made prior to 5.0; Migration issue to 5.0 caused comments to be incorrectly attributed and there is no way to fix that now.

Phoenix / Orwell

PIREP Processing

  • As part of PIREP processing, if booking was made to be flown on VATSIM/IVAO and no flight activity was found on the network, the booking network will be force set to offline. Similarly, if booking was made offline and we detect IVAO/VATSIM activity - it will set the appropriate network.

Badges

  • Badge sections in profile edited to that images fall in the middle

  • Badge sections in profile now show Badge Name in addition to when it was awarded

  • Badge items in profile now link to the badge page in Phoenix

  • PIREPs - Count in Fleet badge type is now retired

  • PIREPs - Count, PIREPs - Landing Rate, PIREPs - Landing Airport, PIREPs - Departing Airport, PIREPs - Arriving or Departing Airport, Flight Length and Flight Distance badges have additional, optional options:

  • PIREPs - Landing Rate badge has additional, optional Airports field. If entered, badge will look for the specified landing rate at the specified airports.

  • PIREPs - Landing Airport Runway Badge type added. Rewards set number of arrivals at specified airport and specified runway. Can only have 1 airport, but multiple runways are allowed. Do note, that runway tracking started with PIREPs filed in 5.2 - previous PIREPs do not have this information.

  • PIREPs - Landing Rate Between Badge type added. Will award badge if landing rate is between min and max specified.

Orwell → ACARS Sounds

  • Sounds are only played when route type is Scheduled or Charter.

  • Sounds can be uploaded on Fleet. Fleet sounds will selectively override default ACARS Sounds - i.e. if default sound for Unloading exists in Airline and one is uploaded on Fleet - the fleet sound will play; If default sound for unloading is not set in Airline and one is uploaded on Fleet - fleet sound will play; If default sound for unloading is set in Airline and no unloading sound is set on Fleet - Airline sound will play.

  • Multiple sounds can now be uploaded for each type - one will be selected at random.

Orwell → Staff Permissions

Important - please re-check and reapply ‘Can See PIREPs & Claims’ and ‘Can Manage Callsign Parameter Settings’ permissions, as some staff may be missing it as of 5.2.7.

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Furthermore, clarified some permission descriptions and names; added granular permissions for each importer/exporter combo - all users with Can Use Exporters/Importers permission have access to all Importers/Exporters enabled to replicate functionality of vAMSYS prior to 5.2.7. VA Owners and other staff with revelant permission can now change what access each Staff member has.

Orwell → Bookings → VATSIM VA Partner Compliance Export

Fixed how this exporter works - it would hang if it cannot produce 60 flights from 20 different pilots. It will now more reliably output the data we have, even if it is not enough to meet VATSIM requirements.

Orwell → Rewards → Ranks

Made some additions to combat creative ways VAs keep finding to delete initial ranks; Added rank change sync to Hangar.

Orwell → Discord Notifications

Ever since 5.0, there were issues with @everyone mentions as is not a real but contrived role, yet Discord treats it as a regular role and provides a unique role_id for each server; To mention @everyone we cannot pass @ , yet for every other role mention - we do; We had issues identifying whether the role is everyone or not. This has now been addressed and the notification messages will mention everyone without double @@ .

Orwell → CSS

Booked Flight Flag classname change

If you are overriding booked-aircraft-flag CSS class, 5.2.7 renames it to bookedAircraftFlag as it was causing an issue with search and was the cause of this issue.

Unordered list

Added default CSS to add bullet points to unordered lists resolving this issue.

Orwell → Activity Edit Bug

Fixed an issue when editing an existing tour it would expect aircraft id, resolving this issue; And this issue regarding award type.

Orwell → Navigation Tweak

As requested in Discrod, Phoenix and Hangar links in Orwell were moved to the bottom of the navigation, closer to what we had in 5.0 and replicating Phoenix layout.

Orwell → Activity → Order of Operations

Changed when Removed Pilot Digest is sent - it is now sent after that days pilot removals, not before - removing the 24 hour delay of email data.

Phoenix → Other Tweaks

  • Clicking on event in Phoenix Dashboard will no longer open a new tab.

  • Removed all dynamic labels - that’s Show/Hide Jumpseat in Booking Map, Show/Hide Flight Paths in Profile → Map, as well as all privacy toggles in Account Settings → Global Preferences. The label clearly indicates what happens when it’s toggled on as opposed to the status it has.

  • Changed how pilots profile is accessed by simplifying the URL

  • Added ‘Share my profile link’ to profile page

Orwell → Other Tweaks

  • Added hidden by default ID field in Aircraft table, so search can be done by ID.

  • Removed all dynamic labels, There was only 1 in Orwell → Activity Unlimited Participation when working on Activities.

  • When creating Route, ‘Start Same’ and ‘Start Return’ save options will pre-populate route type field.

  • Added option to mark PIREP as needing reply when leaving a comment in Orwell.

  • Alerts now have a selection to display in Phoenix or Pegasus - both or either.

  • Added Staff Action Count in Select VA Page next to Orwell button

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