| Position report interval | How often Stratos sends each pilot’s position to your own backend: every 15, 30 or 60 seconds. Lower means a smoother live map on your site and more traffic to your backend. Free tracks every 60 seconds; the faster intervals come with Pro and Pro+. On Pro+, Custom interval and altitude split lets you type any interval from 1 to 600 seconds, and split it at an altitude from 1,000 to 10,000 ft with one interval below and another above. This only paces updates to your backend: Skyvex Software’s own tracking stays at 30 seconds. Reports slow down while a flight is paused. |
| Time capture | How flight time is measured for the PIREP: Block time (pushback to arriving at the gate) or Air time (takeoff to landing, the default). |
| Starting fuel capture | The phase where starting fuel is recorded for the fuel burn: Pushback (the default) or Takeoff. |
| Count time compression as real time | If on, flight time follows the sim rate, so an hour at 4x logs as four hours. Off by default. |
| Cancel bookings | If on, pilots can delete flights they’ve booked from their booking list. Off by default. |
| Change aircraft | If on, pilots can swap the aircraft on a booking before they start, limited to aircraft eligible for that flight (rank, type rating and location rules still apply). Off by default. |
| Only submit after arriving | Submit stays disabled until the flight reaches Arrived or Deboarding, and the Submit button says why. On by default. |
| Allow Start anyway | If on, pilots can skip a failed pre-flight check (for example, the aircraft isn’t on the ground) and start anyway. If off, every check must pass first, and the button tells the pilot your airline has turned it off. On by default. Some aircraft don’t set the simulator’s “on ground” flag properly, so with this off those pilots may not be able to start at all. |
| Ask which network pilots are flying on | Pilots pick an online network (VATSIM, IVAO and so on) while tracking. The choice is sent with the completed flight, and can be streamed through Additional fields. On by default. |
