Registering Virtual Airline

[Andreas Elesky]

Hello,

How do you Register your virtual airline with Vatsim so that the controllers, SimAware and others recognize the registration?  To be clear this is a fictitious airline with no real counterpart.

Thanks

Andy Elesky

[Mats Edvin Aaro]

Hi Andreas!

VATSIM has no centralized database for callsigns.

If you have a VA with a unique callsign/identifier, you are advised to state it in the flight plan remarks, for example:

"CALLSIGN//EXAMPLEAIR" or "C/S EXAMPLEAIR". 🙂

Not all controllers will read the remarks at first, but direct them to read your remarks, or say something like "be advised, callsign EXAMPLEAIR".

Hope that helps you!

[Andreas Elesky]

17 minutes ago, Mats Edvin Aaro said:

Hi Andreas!

VATSIM has no centralized database for callsigns.

If you have a VA with a unique callsign/identifier, you are advised to state it in the flight plan remarks, for example:

"CALLSIGN//EXAMPLEAIR" or "C/S EXAMPLEAIR". 🙂

Not all controllers will read the remarks at first, but direct them to read your remarks, or say something like "be advised, callsign EXAMPLEAIR".

Hope that helps you!

Thanks, I already do that, mine was related more towards not getting the dreaded, Invalid Registration, on SimAware and other live maps when clicking on your ICON.

 

Thanks

Andy Elesky

[Mats Edvin Aaro]

In a previous thread, Maius - the guy behind SimAware said that they don't have any database for getting VA callsigns. The database he uses is the real ICAO callsign database. 🙂

[Andreas Fuchs]

19 minutes ago, Mats Edvin Aaro said:

Maius - the guy behind SimAware said that they don't have any database for getting VA callsigns

Maybe he could just us the file ICAO_Airlines.txt from GNG Global Nav Generator, it does contain current airlines and also virtual airlines and gets updated on a monthly basis.

[Andreas Elesky]

All,

  Thanks for the replies and help.

 

Thanks

Andy Elesky

[Mats Edvin Aaro]

3 hours ago, Andreas Fuchs said:

Maybe he could just us the file ICAO_Airlines.txt from GNG Global Nav Generator, it does contain current airlines and also virtual airlines and gets updated on a monthly basis.

Interesting idea, or maybe VATSIM could maintain a list of all approved (or user-maintained list of all) VA's that can be injected into the airlines.txt in Euroscope? Hmmm... 😄

[Maius Wong]

4 hours ago, Andreas Fuchs said:

Maybe he could just us the file ICAO_Airlines.txt from GNG Global Nav Generator, it does contain current airlines and also virtual airlines and gets updated on a monthly basis.

Hi Andreas,

I will take a look at this for SimAware - however, some VA's currently conflict with real-world callsigns, i.e. CXA is both "Xiamen Air" and "Canadian Express", so I may not be able to implement everyone.

Maius

[Andreas Fuchs]

I know. In the swift database VAs have a VA-prefix to separate them from real-world codes.

[Maius Wong]

That's a good approach in some circumstances, but it's not much of a hassle to ask users to specify their VA when connecting to VATSIM.  It's an entirely different story when you have to rely on circumstantial evidence (is CXA201 flying from YVR-YYZ Xiamen Air or Canadian Xpress?) - the rulesets would be a mess.