10-08-2016, 03:53 PM
(10-07-2016, 05:47 PM)USA Wrote: 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...