Aircraft Registration

[Unknown98]

Do you guys care how detailed the aircraft registrations are? i.e. should you be allowed to make the registration however you want or do you want the registrations in-game to follow the real world naming conventions/prefixes etc?

Minor detail of the game but I figured I'd see what everyone thought.

[Dokhu]

Hi Admin.

As you said, this is a ultra-realistic simulations game!

[asianmattdog]

I'd say allow the option, if they want it. Otherwise, it's a minor feature not to many people are going to care about, except the one who passionately would.

[POTKC]

I think having proper country prefixes (the correct format basically) is important. The issue would be things like Russia, where the prefix is RA and then five numbers, however most large airlines there register VQ- and VP- (such as Aeroflot or UTair) or EI- (what Transaero used to be). This is all of course due to taxes in the Cayman Islands and Ireland. There are probably more examples, Russia is just the one I come into contact most often. I think if someone wants to be really in-depth with the registrations having to register with a set code determined by where they are based would be detrimental. Perhaps for every aircraft you would be able to select what country you want it to be registered in, and then it would automatically add the prefix and then give you a box to enter the rest?

[Frenchie]

If that's not too hard to implement, I think the proposal made by POKTC sounds fairly simple and reasonable. Honestly, who would mind spending one minute on choosing a country and 5 digits, and this could add a degree of realism (hinting at the roleplay haha).

[Unknown98]

Perhaps for every aircraft you would be able to select what country you want it to be registered in, and then it would automatically add the prefix and then give you a box to enter the rest?

That shouldn't be too difficult, I'll see what I can do.

[USA]

You can just load in the prefixes and based on where an airline's HQ is use that as the prefix and then as was said people can fill in the other 5 characters with whatever they want. Next question is though, do we want to forbid having multiple aircraft with the same registration (at least until airplane is sold, re-registered, scrapped, etc.)?

[Carde]

Just make sure to add an auto fill option for people, not everyone will care

I mean I would just say pick my country and fill out the rest by default (just filter out certain combinations....)

[Unknown98]

I was thinking to have it auto fill with the country prefix of your HQ and something randomly generated for the rest. Then you can change it later if you want.

I guess we should require a unique registration.

[POTKC]

You can just load in the prefixes and based on where an airline's HQ is use that as the prefix and then as was said people can fill in the other 5 characters with whatever they want.

As I said, the problem with that is that it causes problems for people who strive for even more realism. For example, (the same one as I wrote about earlier), Aeroflot registers all of its planes using VP- and VQ- (except the SSJ 100, that's RA-). Someone who wants to do that sort of thing for their airline (or EI-, another commonly used one) would not be able to if you limit them to the country they are based in - that's just not how airlines actually work. Same goes for anyone tying to emulate a real-world airline and running into this problem. Also, starting up subsidiaries in aother cuntry (like I did wit Palm Cargo and I think AussieBoy did with his ASEAN spinoff of Thai Airways) would be unrealistic, since you'd be limited to the country you are 'based' in. It shouldn't be much harder to do the registrations by aircraft instead of by country, should it? Or is there some problem I'm not seeing...