Flight tracking

Getting into a tracked flight

CAVAcars watches for your aircraft to appear in the simulator world. When it does:

• If you were on the Home screen, you'll get a 10-second banner offering to jump straight to Flight Tracking.
• If a dispatched flight departs from wherever you've spawned, tracking arms itself automatically with a 60-second countdown before it starts — giving you time to finish your before-start flow first. You can click Start now to skip the wait, or Cancel to not track this flight.
• If more than one of your dispatched flights departs from the same airport, you'll be asked which one to track instead of it guessing.

While tracking

Once active, CAVAcars sends position updates to the server automatically and shows your progress — distance and time remaining — right on the tracking screen. The map, flight log, and vertical profile panels can each be toggled on/off with the buttons above the map.

Pause at top of descent: enable this (button above the map) and CAVAcars will pause the simulator a little before your computed top-of-descent point, based on a rough 3° descent profile — handy if you tend to get distracted and blow through TOD. Adjust the buffer distance if it's pausing too early or too late for your taste.

Interruptions and resuming

If you close the app, crash, or otherwise get interrupted mid-flight, CAVAcars keeps your tracked flight open on the server for 12 hours. Next time you launch the app and get back in the world, you'll be offered Resume (pick up where you left off, log and all) or Discard.

If tracking is active when you try to close the app, you'll get a warning first — "Quit Anyway" ends the app immediately (still resumable within the 12-hour window above) rather than properly ending the flight.