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As a way of acknowledging the commitment of our contributors, and to increase transparency on the hive of activity that keeps the database thriving, we've made available a new statistics page.

Here you can view an archive of metrics broken down by month and year, spanning the 15 years the database has been operational.

Highlights for 2019:

• addition of 11,400 flightplans
• fulfillment of 3,000 flightplan requests with a 74% fulfillment rate and an average turnaround time of 19 hours

We'd like to thank all contributors in 2019, and in particular our top 10 which are listed in the 2019 Annual Summary

We've rolled out the capability to prefile our flightplans with VATSIM. Look for the 'Prefile VATSIM' button when viewing any flightplan.

This feature was suggested by one of our contributors, LawrenceA. If you have any ideas for new features or enhancements, contact the management team via the Contact Us form.

We've rolled out our first major upgrade to the Flightplan Database platform since its inception 15 years ago. This has involved a full overhaul of our back-end codebase and bringing in a modern framework, optimisations to our database to improve performance and user experience, as well as a number of bug fixes and new features not limited to:

• A 'View Source' button on flightplans which will show the full, unparsed ATS/CFMU data. This will be available for flightplans added after 29 Dec 19 when supplied by the contributor.
• Searching for flightplans by date range is now supported.
• Searching for flightplans by Remarks is now supported. This is a partial match field which can be leveraged in a number of ways - e.g. searching for an aircraft registration with 'REG/XXXXX'.
• Additional Remarks are now captured on CFMU flightplans that are submitted - e.g. PBN/, DAT/, NAV/, SUR/, PER/, TALT/. These were previously ignored.
• Composing Private Messages was often slow and painful as the recipient drop-down was overloaded with the number of users. The recipient field has been replaced with a freetext autocomplete.
• 'Remember Me' on login now has a longer session timeout period.
• Faster loading times on various pages across the site, and faster flightplan searches.
• many more

These fundamental technical changes position us well to ensure we can continue operating smoothly into the future, as our database and user base continues to grow.

We're exploring the possibility of a second phase upgrade to the front-end of the site, which involves modernising the look and feel and making it more responsive/mobile-friendly. But we need help to make this happen - so if you are a front-end UI/UX developer who is willing to donate time and expertise, please contact us via the channels below.

If you encounter any issues with the upgraded site, or have any ideas for new features or enhancements, contact the management team via the Contact Us form.