UPDATE: New ChasePlane Features, Let's Go Spotting™!
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ChasePlane adds a new Spotting mode that lets users view and follow nearby traffic—AI aircraft, helicopters, ships, ground vehicles, and animals—using flexible camera controls (Move To, Target, or Auto Spot). The update marks the final feature release during ChasePlane's Experimental phase; the next release will move the product to stable status and end early-release pricing. The feature integrates traffic from AI packs, online networks (Vatsim, IVAO, SayIntentions), with detailed info like runway data, flight phases, speeds, and distances displayed. Auto Spot mode automatically selects and tracks nearby traffic with smooth camera motion for hands-off viewing.
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Hello Captain,
Some of the best moments in a flight simulator happen when you’re not flying at all; maybe you're holding short while a heavy rolls past, lingering after shutdown to see what’s on final, or simply watching a busy airport come to life. There’s a quiet kind of fun in watching the world move around you.
That spirit inspired the newest ChasePlane experience: Spotting™. And it goes well beyond planes. ChasePlane can now help you find and follow AI aircraft, helicopters, balloons, ships, ground traffic, and even animals.
Before we show you how it works, we have an important update about ChasePlane’s Experimental status and pricing.
First and foremost, thank you to everyone who purchased ChasePlane during its Experimental phase. Your feedback, detailed reports, and countless hours spent helping us troubleshoot have been instrumental in bringing such a complex product to the level of stability needed to support users around the world.
This will be the final ChasePlane feature to be released during the Experimental-only phase. The next release will mark ChasePlane’s transition to a fully stable product. At that point, early-release pricing will end, and ChasePlane will move to its final price.
What is Spotting?
Spotting is a new experience that puts nearby traffic front and center, including aircraft from AI traffic packs, online networks such as Vatsim, IVAO, and SayIntentions. Native Microsoft Flight Simulator multiplayer aircraft are not supported due to platform limitations.
Open the Spotting page in ChasePlane, and you'll see what's operating around you, with aircraft names and details, runway information, flight phases, speeds, distances, and traffic counts.
See an object or viewpoint worth watching? Use the map action selector in the lower-left corner to choose how you want to follow it.
Select [Move To] to move the camera to the selected object and travel alongside it as it moves through the world.
Select [Target] to keep the camera in its current location while turning it to follow the selected object or stay locked onto a viewpoint.
Prefer a hands-off session? Turn on [Auto Spot]. It automatically selects nearby traffic and tracks it with smooth camera motion. And yes, you can still use [Move To] to pick your spotting location and even change it with a single click. Turn on Auto Spot and watch the airport traffic broadcast play out in front of you.
Want to tune what you see? The AI Traffic Settings overlay holds two sections:…
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