Ever since the new update, myself, as well as numerous other IFATC controllers have noticed many ATC bugs.
Aircraft can’t be handed off to radar frequencies.
Radar frequencies seem to not be appearing upon pressing “contact other frequency”, meaning aircraft can’t be handed off to radar by another controller.
This means that when an aircraft is changing to a radar frequency, the radar controller has no choice but to on guard them. This obviously is far from ideal and is heavily impacting our ability to give good service. It’s especially problematic for departure/centre as tower can’t handoff aircraft upon them being airborne, as well as centre needing to handoff aircraft to approach. It’s also impacting our ability to split approach frequencies and handle controller changes. Usually the controller going offline would handoff all the aircraft on frequency to the controller taking over however this isn’t really possible anymore.
Unknown aircraft icons are no longer visible
The unknown aircraft bug has been around for a while now, but it seems to have been dramatically worsened following the new update. Not only can you not see their callsign, user profile or aircraft type, you now also can’t see their aircraft icon at all which makes spotting them on a busy frequency a lot more difficult. See image below:
“Off” camera setting in the replay is broken
I haven’t seen anyone else mention this to be honest so there’s a chance that it could just be me, but before, upon selecting “off”, the background of the replay would go completely black. Now it’s just kinda glitched out with no terrain but definitely not what it was before.
Violations are no longer highlighted in the progress/playback bar.
Before the update, any violation you issued to an aircraft would be highlighted in the progress/playback bar at the bottom with a red line for easy reference, however this no longer seems to be the case. I issued four violations at LIRF today however none of them have come up.
See images below, comparing before and after the update showing broken “off” camera and the missing red violation lines.
Before:
After:
As I said above I am definitely not the only one experiencing these issues (apart from the camera one, possibly) and many other controllers have reported them too.
Device: Ipad mini A17 Pro
Operating system: IOS 26.3.1 (a)
