Short Trails

The server records the position of each aircraft that it tracks so that a trail can be displayed behind the aircraft on the map. The trail shows where the aircraft has been.

There are two kinds of trail that can be shown for an aircraft:

• The full trail, which shows every position that the aircraft has passed through.
• The short trail, which shows every position over the last few seconds.

Short trails produce less clutter on the map when trails are shown for every aircraft. You can change the number of seconds that the short trail lasts for in the Server Options.