Ladies and gens, please open up the stage for… Drum roll please… Wait for it… VATSIM message notifications in VATRADAR!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Yes, that’s right. This long awaited, long anticipated and long promised feature, VATSIM message notifications on your phone, is finally here!

Receive instant notifications when someone sends you a private VATSIM message (such as a controller’s contact me) or SELCAL alert, it’s super simple to set up and a great way to stay in the loop in those situations where you need to step out of your home cockpit for a few minutes. This feature requires the vPilot-VATRadar plugin to be installed on your computer, download and installation instructions are available here.

Once installation is done, don’t forget to enable the VATSIM Message Notifications option in VATRadar settings, reachable via the Profile tab.

The introduction of this feature marks a significant milestone in the development of VATRadar, and I couldn’t be more thrilled and excited about the fact that it has finally landed. To the best of my knowledge, VATRadar is now the only existing iOS app out there that does this, turning VATRadar into a distinctly unique and powerful tool for all VATSIM pilots. It’s been a significant effort to pull this off and fit all the pieces together in the right way, but here we are!

Please do let me know about any issues, bugs or unexpected behavior you may encounter while testing the new notifications, this would be super deeply appreciated as it’s easily one of the most complex features now supported by VATRadar.

Special thanks go out to Marshall, Declan and Gus for helping me alpha test the VATSIM notification system.

Happy testing!

Cheers, Rob