Jean Louis Di Fede Posted October 8, 2021 at 03:09 PM Posted October 8, 2021 at 03:09 PM Dear all, My name is Jean Louis Di Fede and I'm representing SkyLink Virtual Airline (https://skylinkvirtual.com/) and I'm asking the forum help to solve a topic is really near our heart. We've been recently recognized by Vatsim as an approved VA (https://my.vatsim.net/virtual-airlines) and we'd like all VaCC in the world to have in their own system our callsign. In Italy this have already happened and would be incredibly nice to spread the word around. Our call sign is SIK and stands for SkiLink, now we're putting in vpilot this remark SKYLINKVIRTUAL.COM / CS SKYLINK but is not really helping How I can convey the message or better to create a contact list for VaCC all over the world? My second aim is also to create a network to organize events and share information and experiences. Thanks in advance for your help, Have a good weekend you all, Jean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Harrison Posted October 8, 2021 at 08:08 PM Posted October 8, 2021 at 08:08 PM It is my understanding that the majority of controllers won’t see your FP comments, so good initiative but probably does help too much. maybe engage the local region training director, and ask that they push out on their message media that you are a VATSIM partner and the details. ‘Not sure if this happens, but it would be great if VATSIM approving authority sent out advice to regions of approved VSOA airlines. Sean C1/O P3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Wong Posted October 9, 2021 at 12:44 AM Posted October 9, 2021 at 12:44 AM (edited) @Jean and Sean Thanks for your feedback. We will consider to pass the information to the specific regions. But bad thing is many regions and division don't have a VA Department as most of them focus more on controllers than on the pilot department. Edited October 9, 2021 at 12:49 AM by Tim Wong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean Louis Di Fede Posted October 9, 2021 at 06:15 AM Author Posted October 9, 2021 at 06:15 AM Thanks both for you kind answers. I’d like to better clarify my request. In the ICAO_Airlines file in Euroscope our callsign SIK is wrongly assigned to another VA(see in attach) and registered in GNG. we’d like than this to be changed globally. Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor Hannant Posted October 9, 2021 at 08:10 AM Posted October 9, 2021 at 08:10 AM Actually, they were a (proposed?) real world carrier although not sure they actually did start up or exist any longer hence why they would have been included: https://www.routesonline.com/news/29/breaking-news/133214/afraa-sika-airlines-plans-long-haul-links-from-accra/ Trevor Hannant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean Louis Di Fede Posted October 9, 2021 at 09:52 AM Author Posted October 9, 2021 at 09:52 AM hi, as far as we know this airline doesn’t exist anymore instead the callsign is still in euroscope list. That’s why we’re trying to have it assigned to us. Otherwise there might be any other solution ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Harrison Posted October 9, 2021 at 07:03 PM Posted October 9, 2021 at 07:03 PM I could be wrong, but do any radar clients tell the user what airline callsign is assigned. I haven’t used ES, but I’ve never seen anything in the client that says to call any aircraft a particular name. Sean C1/O P3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean Louis Di Fede Posted October 9, 2021 at 07:10 PM Author Posted October 9, 2021 at 07:10 PM The problem we have is exactly that in Euro Scope SIK is referring to Sika instead of SkyLink. This is what we’re aiming to correct. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Christie Posted October 10, 2021 at 02:59 AM Posted October 10, 2021 at 02:59 AM Euroscope is the only client that does it it appears on the bottom bar below the communications box along with decoded airport names and aircraft types. Euroscope is not used globally. Clients are built by third party developers, sector files and sector data is provided by most vACCs, so making a request for the data to be updated globally is not the way to go about it. Continue to get your pilots to write in the remarks if controllers are not looking at the remarks then you can't do anything about it. I always look if I see an ICAO code I don't recognise and often there is nothing there, so potentially controllers don't look any more. Kirk Christie - VATPAC C3 VATPAC Undercover ATC Agent Worldflight Perth 737-800 Crew Member Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean Louis Di Fede Posted October 10, 2021 at 07:22 AM Author Posted October 10, 2021 at 07:22 AM Thanks, even it is not a great news :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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